The distance of Friday night's $50,000 colts and geldings division of the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap at Remington Park is a question mark for 122-pound highweight Colonel Yorke and the capable Joe Offolter trainees Night Passage and Cajun Stoops.
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When trainer Laura Cazares claimed Hot Cargo for $25,000 in July, she intended to run her back at the same level at Gulfstream Park. After the 5-year-old mare showed improvement in Cazares's barn at Palm Meadows, however, the trainer wasn't ready to risk parting ways with her just yet at the same price.
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Any discussion regarding Friday's $150,000 Bernard Baruch Stakes at Saratoga must begin with three-time Grade 1 winner Program Trading, who returns from a near 15-month layoff to face five seemingly outclassed rivals going 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf.
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Kenny Walters' horses to watch list from Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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It isn't often a horse who won a Grade 1 stakes in June shows up in a listed stakes in August. Such is the case, however, with Dynamic Pricing, who two months ago won the Grade 1 Just a Game here but two starts later is entered to run in Friday's $150,000 Perfect Sting Stakes going a mile at Saratoga.
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The hard-knocking Ohio-bred filly Parlay turned in another fine effort against males last time out, finishing third behind Ronnis Second Wind and Just Like Rambo in the Horizon Stakes. Their paths diverge Friday, as Parlay goes back to turf to face her own gender and the two geldings face older runners in the co-features at Belterra Park.
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Soaringforthesun will ship south to Emerald Downs in search of some easier company and his first win of the year, when he starts in Friday's fifth race going six furlongs.
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An old mare is learning a new trick this season in California, and it might produce an overdue victory in the featured seventh race Friday at Del Mar.
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Flying Black tries to extend her winning streak to four races in Friday's featured sixth race on the inner turf at Woodbine. The hot leading rider, apprentice Pietro Moran, has given her a vote of confidence in the conditioned allowance/optional claimer, which should sway the role of favoritism her way.
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It’s too early to know how Beau Jangles will do once he dances with the greats in his division, but there’s no denying the legend of the precocious, undefeated Ontario-sired 2-year-old pacer is growing at a rate commensurate with the horse’s confidence.
