SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer George Weaver has canceled plans to send reigning Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Cy Fair to Royal Ascot for the King Charles III Stakes on June 16.
“She had a couple of days I wasn’t happy with her, and you can’t put them on a plane and go across the world when they’re not doing what you want them to do,” said Weaver.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The list of horses who have won the Metropolitan Handicap and the Breeders’ Cup Classic is short, but impressive. Ghostzapper, the 2004 BC Classic winner, won the Met Mile the following year in a career in which he won nine of 11 races. Flightline won both races in 2022 as part of an undefeated (6 for 6) career.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Book’em Danno, the New Jersey-bred gelding who won Saturday’s Grade 3 True North Stakes at Saratoga for a second consecutive year, may have a homecoming at Monmouth Park for his next start.
Under the conditions of the Mr. Prospector Stakes, a six-furlong race scheduled for July 17, if a multiple Grade 1 winner starts in the race, the purse will be doubled to $200,000. Book’em Danno is owned by Atlantic Six Racing, a group consisting of many partners who live near Monmouth Park, and the day would be dubbed as a celebration of the 2025 champion sprinter.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Don’t categorize the turf star Deterministic, who won his fifth consecutive graded stakes in Saturday’s Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes at 1 3/16 miles.
In the last two years, Deterministic has won five stakes at 1 1/8 miles, but also stakes at a mile and at Saturday’s distance, the longest victory of his 15-race career.
The wins at a variety of distances has led trainer Miguel Clement to plan a start for Deterministic in the Grade 1 Fourstardave Stakes at a mile on turf on Aug. 8.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - There will not be a media tour this time around.
Following Golden Tempo’s victory in the Kentucky Derby, which made Cherie DeVaux the first female trainer to win that race, DeVaux was everywhere, from the Today Show to Inside Edition to multiple podcasts to Yankee Stadium, where she threw out the ceremonial first pitch before a game.
After Golden Tempo’s victory in Saturday’s $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga, DeVaux said she will continue the far-less-glamorous life of a horse trainer.
Single-race betting on Saturday night's Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Racecourse in upstate New York fell 20.9 percent compared to single-race betting on last year's Belmont, according to race charts. The striking decline reflects a revised post time and new policies at tracks operated by the New York Racing Association meant to restrict the play of computer-assisted wagering (CAW) groups.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jose Ortiz was the leading rider on the New York Racing Association circuit three times during the 13 years he was based here and that didn’t include 2017, the year he won the Eclipse Award as North America’s champion jockey.
Two years ago, Ortiz made the move to Kentucky – and in the winter Louisiana – and things are only getting better.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Through the late spring and summer of 2025, Book’em Danno was the dominant sprinter at Saratoga, winning three consecutive graded stakes en route to winning an Eclipse Award as champion sprinter.
To reach the same year-end objective, there will be variations on the itinerary in coming months, according to trainer Derek Ryan. A start at Monmouth Park in July is under strong consideration, part of a plan to have Book’em Danno on course for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Oct. 31 at Keeneland. Book’em Danno did not start in the 2025 BC Sprint at Del Mar.
A bay colt by Curlin and out of the Bernardini mare Carrumba came into this world on Feb. 7, 2023, foaled at famed Claiborne Farm, where he spent the first 18 months of his existence parading through paddocks, frolicking in fields. Late in the summer of 2024, the bucolic chapter of this colt’s life came to an end. Off to Williston, Fla., to be broken at Eisaman Equine.
