SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mother Nature may be Rhetorical’s biggest rival Sunday when the lightly raced 4-year-old gelding attempts to make his stakes debut in the $150,000 West Point Stakes for New York-breds at Saratoga.
The West Point is scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the Mellon Turf course, but there is a 40 percent chance of rain Sunday. Oddly, the West Point drew just six runners for turf, but seven for the main track.
As comebacks go, Sweet Azteca was perfect at Los Alamitos on July 5, winning the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes in track-record time in her first start since October. Seven weeks later, Sweet Azteca will be a massive favorite to win Sunday’s Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap at Del Mar, a race she won by seven lengths as the 1-10 favorite in 2024.
Talliyah Timentwa may be introverted and small of stature, but no one will ever confuse her for being timid. To the contrary, the word that her acquaintances use most frequently to describe the 19-year-old apprentice jockey is “brave.”
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Bill Tharrenos is loaded for the two $200,000 juvenile stakes on Sunday’s Woodbine card for graduates of Canadian yearling sales, the Simcoe and Muskoka.
In the 6 1/2-furlong Simcoe for colts and geldings, Tharrenos sends out Bank On Big Winner, Big Bold and First, and Silver Is Best. Bank On Big Winner graduated second time out in front-running style in a six-furlong Ontario-sired and $40,000 maiden-claiming sprint under Omar Moreno, for which he got a 55 Beyer Speed Figure.
When Chi Chi Time, the feisty fan favorite who’s the toast of Hastings’s 3-year-old filly division, has made it out of the starting gate this year, she’s been unbeatable, winning her three career starts by a combined 19 1/2 lengths.
But there’s a question as to whether Chi Chi Time will start in Monday’s $50,000 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Sales Stakes for 3- and 4-year-old fillies, where she’ll be heavily favored at 1 1/16 miles if she’s good to go.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainers Brad Cox and Bob Baffert will send out five of the eight prospective starters in the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes. One can easily make a compelling case for every member of the talented and extraordinarily well-matched lineup in what is arguably the most intriguing of the five Grade 1 stakes to be decided on Travers Day at Saratoga.
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Take Charge Tom is a horse built for distance, and he will get all he wants Saturday night when he moves to 1 1/4 miles for the first time in the Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby at Century Mile.
“I don’t think that will be a problem,” said trainer Robertino Diodoro, who is seeking his fifth win in the prestigious race.
