SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Raging Torrent, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Saratoga, was scheduled on Tuesday to head back to Southern California, where he will likely make one start before the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 1 at Del Mar. Meanwhile, Fierceness and White Abarrio, second and fourth, respectively, in the Met Mile, will remain in Saratoga and are likely to meet again in the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes here on Aug. 2. Raging Torrent, under Frankie Dettori, sped off to a front-running 2 1/2-length victory in the Met, his third straight win, sixth in his last seven starts and seventh of 14 overall. His recent streak has come in races run at seven furlongs and a mile. His only loss over the last 13 months came in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, in which he got stuck down inside, according to trainer Doug O’Neill. “That’s not his cup of tea,” he said. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. O’Neill said the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien, a seven-furlong race at Del Mar that Raging Torrent won last year, will most likely be his next start. That race is on Aug. 23. Then he’ll have 10 weeks to the Breeders’ Cup. “He runs so good fresh and he’s such a cool horse, just trying to space him out properly,” O’Neill said. Raging Torrent earned a 106 Beyer Speed Figure for the Met Mile performance. Meanwhile, Fierceness suffered his first Saratoga loss in four starts, finishing second in the Met Mile. Fierceness got bumped some trying to attain an early position where he ultimately was second outside of Raging Torrent. While Fierceness, under John Velazquez, drew close to even with Raging Torrent approaching the quarter pole, he couldn’t get past him, “Dettori rode his horse the way we would have ridden if we were on the outside and had speed,” said Todd Pletcher, trainer of Fierceness. “He kind of came over and made things tight and Johnny had to push his way out. He said he never felt like he got him into as good a rhythm after that happened.” For the second year in a row, White Abarrio ran disappointingly in the Met Mile. In 2024, he finished fifth. On Saturday, he ran fourth, beaten 5 1/4 lengths. While trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said White Abarrio got bounced around early, he said he didn’t really see a major excuse for the horse’s effort. “Can’t make an excuse if you don’t really know the reason,” Joseph said. “They all lined up together, the winner was the best horse on the day.” Joseph said White Abarrio would be pointed to the Whitney, a race he won in 2023 when in the barn of Rick Dutrow Jr. Joseph said he may also run Skippylongstocking, winner of the Gold Cup at Santa Anita last out, in the Whitney. She Feels Pretty to Diana In her 10-race career, She Feels Pretty has never started at the same track for two straight starts. That will change next month when She Feels Pretty runs in the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana Stakes at Saratoga on July 12. She Feels Pretty will do so coming out of a half-length victory over Beach Bomb in the New York Stakes here last Friday over a yielding turf. “Just gives me a lot more respect for her,” trainer Cherie DeVaux said of She Feels Pretty’s effort in the New York. “She really had to dig deep to get there. [Beach Bomb] did have the jump on her and she did have to work for it. It was a laboring surface, just happy that she came out of it in great order and we’ll move forward from that.” She Feels Pretty, a daughter Karakontie, earned a 100 Beyer Speed Figure, equaling her career best from last year’s Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth victory at Keeneland. She Feels Pretty has raced at eight different tracks in her 10-race career. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.