Endlessly, Look Forward to Saratoga stakes
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Endlessly, a four-time stakes winner in California and Kentucky in 2023 and 2024, and Look Forward, the surprise winner of the Eight Belles Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 2, have stakes engagements at Saratoga next week.
Trainer Michael McCarthy said over the weekend that Look Forward is booked to start in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes, a $500,000 race for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on June 6. Meanwhile, Endlessly is being prepared for the Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf on June 7. The $1 million Manhattan Stakes is on the same program as the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. McCarthy has Preakness Stakes winner Journalism for the $2 million Belmont Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on dirt.
Endlessly, who races for John and Jerry Amerman, has started once this year, finishing third in a productive running of the Grade 3 American Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita on April 20 in his first start since July. Cabo Spirit and King of Gosford, the first two finishers in the American Stakes, returned to finish third and first in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita on Monday.
Look Forward, owned by Paul and Zillah Reddam, won for the third time in her sixth career start as a 7-1 chance in the Eight Belles at seven furlongs.