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Sierra Leone, the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, and Sovereignty, the horse who figures to be favored to win the 2025 Classic, put in workouts minutes apart Sunday morning over the Oklahoma training track on a cool, but dry morning in Saratoga.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Monday 10/13 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Preakness Stakes winner War of Will is relocating to New York’s Rockridge Stud for 2026 after beginning his career at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, another major addition for the Empire State as it looks ahead to new developments.
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Coolmore’s Ashford Stud continues to build its roster for 2026, as the farm announced Sunday that champion juvenile Citizen Bull will retire to the Kentucky farm following the Breeders’ Cup.
Eight $50,000 Ohio Fairs Championships for rookies and sophomores of both sexes and gaits were held on the undercard of the Courageous Lady Stakes on Saturday night at MGM Northfield Park.
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Sammy Jo Hanover won the Grade 3 $125,000 Courageous Lady Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday night at MGM Northfield Park in gate-to-wire fashion. She finished the mile in 1:51 3/5.
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While her 2025 has not lived up to the hype created from a blemish-free Canadian Horse of the Year-winning rookie season a year ago, Chantilly proved once again that there's no place like home, taking the C$300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Woodbine Mohawk Park Saturday night (Oct. 11). In the process, she upped her lifetime stats at the seven-eighths-mile oval to 15 wins in just 16 tries.
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Monalishi brushed off a break in her previous start with a platinum performance in the C$300,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final for 3-year-old filly trotters on Saturday night (Oct. 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Spencer Hanover went into Saturday's $250,000 Big Apple Trot for juvenile colts and geldings as a maiden in nine tries, but that didn't hold him back as he shattered the Vernon Downs track record by more than a second, winning in 1:52 3/5 with driver Jason Bartlett in the sulky for trainer Marcus Melander.
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Fragment, a Huntsville-sired colt, left no doubt about who the best freshman pacer in New York is with an authoritative 1:50 blowout mile in the first offering of the Big Apple Pace, a $250,000 event for 2-year-olds on Saturday night at Vernon Downs. Jason Bartlett guided the Per Engblom trainee down-the-road and left the field in the dust heading into the homestretch, completing his mile with a stunning 26 second flat final quarter.
