Channel Maker vs. Mike Maker in Bowling Green

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Channel Maker, who dead-heated for win in the 2018 Bowling Green, will take on a pair of runners from the barn of Mike Maker in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Bowling Green Stakes at 1 3/8 miles at Saratoga.

Channel Maker, trained by Bill Mott, hasn’t won since taking the Grade 1 Man o’ War at Belmont in May 2019. He is coming out of a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Manhattan, beaten just one length by winner Instilled Regard.

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Maker, who won two turf stakes last week, sends out Cross Border, who won the Lubash on July 23, and Marzo, 0 for 4 since winning the Grade 3 Sycamore at Keeneland in October.

Sadler’s Joy will be making his fourth straight appearance in the Bowling Green, having finished third in 2017 and 2018 and sixth in 2019.

Dot Matrix, Highland Sky, and Pillar Mountain complete the field.

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