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My Miss Mo and Jumping the Gun, the winner and runner-up of the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan in May, will square off again in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks on Saturday. While Jumping the Gun has delivered a career-best performance since, My Miss Mo will return from a short layoff for Saffie Joseph Jr.
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Chief Wallabee and Emerging Marekt were among the buzz horses entering the Kentucky Derby, going off the fifth and sixth choices, respectively. Chief Wallabee ran fourth, Emerging Market finished 10th.
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If Always a Runner and Counting Stars perform up to their trainer's expectations, then Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks should be a fun race and one or the other figures to leave Saratoga Saturday night atop the 3-year-old filly division.
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Bought for approximately $2.8 million at auction last December in Britain, the highly regarded 4-year-old filly Saqqara Sands will have her American debut Saturday in the $100,000 Osunitas Stakes at a mile on turf.
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Slew Lady is one of the latest to hit the entry box for her sire, Roadster, who has broken out nationally early on.
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Aretha makes her much-anticipated stakes debut in Saturday's $175,000 Ontario Colleen, the first of three Grade 3 stakes on the Woodbine card, along with the $175,000 Hendrie and the $175,000 Trillium.
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The long-term significance of the Daisycutter Handicap is dubious, but for bettors, the short-term appeal of the turf sprint is certain. Every summer at Del Mar, the $100,000 Daisycutter offers horseplayers an opportunity to beat the chalk.
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California's best sprinter is from Kentucky, apparently, based on the field in the Bing Crosby on Saturday at Del Mar. Only one Crosby entrant raced in California last out, while six raced at Churchill, one at Lone Star, and another at Saratoga.
Harrington Raceway's richest program of the season will kick off the Delaware State Fair Thursday (July 23) as 12 races with more than $600,000 in total purses will be contested.
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With her best effort on display, Odds On Monetary (Huntsville-All On Top Hanover) notched her third straight victory by winning the $121,800 New York Sire Stakes event for 3-year-old pacing fillies while handing the first loss of the year to the heavily-favored Liberty Style at Batavia Downs on Wednesday (July 22), which was opening night of the summer/fall meet.
