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Laurelin remained perfect in five career starts and earned her first graded stakes victory in the process when rallying to a decisive 1 3/4-length victory over Evershed and four other 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Saratoga Oaks Invitational.
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The Grade 1 Sword Dancer, a 1 1/2-mile turf race, will be renamed the Christophe Clement Turf beginning in 2026, the New York Racing Association announced Saturday just before the 51st running of the Sword Dancer.
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Like her trainer, Ed Moger Jr., the 4-year-old filly Charlene’s Dream began her career on the Northern California circuit, but it was at Colonial Downs in Virginia where Charlene’s Dream scored her most important win, capturing the Grade 2, $500,000 Beverly D. on Saturday.
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At 3-5, Shifty was all the rage in the betting in Saturday’s $250,000 Bison City Stakes at Woodbine, but it was her stablemate Winterberry who literally stole the show in the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara.
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Maryland shippers had the best of things in two turf sprint stakes Saturday in Virginia, where Witty won the $153,600 Van Clief Stakes and Hollywood Walk captured the $152,400 Andy Guest at Colonial Downs.
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As John Velazquez guided headstrong colt Rolando toward the rail from the far outside post at Colonial Downs on Saturday, he was expecting a laborious trip while scrapping for the early lead. A speed duel never materialized, however, giving Velazquez little to do as Rolando cruised around the track to win the $100,000 Petramalo Mile Stakes in track-record time.
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Track records were set in back-to-back races Friday (August 8) at Eldorado Scioto Downs.
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Led by Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty, a trio of contenders for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes here on Aug. 23 put in workouts Saturday morning in Saratoga.
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Indiana-sired Sabonis returned to the Hoosier State for the Grade 2 $300,000 Dan Patch Stakes on Friday night at Harrah's Hoosier Park and was successful, prevailing from first-over in 1:49 2/5 with Dexter Dunn in the bike for trainer Brett Pelling.
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In the wake of PA Perfect's 20-1 upset in the $50,000 Home Grown for 2-year-old pacing fillies, Everlast Sting Deo refused to be outdone and threw down a vicious 26 second sprint home to break his maiden in the $48,000 Home Grown for 2-year-old male pacers and give sire Perfect Sting a sweep of Friday's (Aug. 8) co-featured events at the Meadowlands.
