SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Some may argue that had a home field advantage when she upset Dubai Escapade in last month's Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap at Calder.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. - Round Pond, a multiple graded stakes winner last year, launches a comeback Sunday in the Grade 2, $300,000 Molly Pitcher Breeders' Cup Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.
The 4-year-old Round Pond will be making her first start since beating Happy Ticket by a determined neck in a battle of Grade 1 winners in the Grade 3 Azeri Breeders' Cup Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 11. Round Pond has been sidelined since then with a foot problem.
DEL MAR, Calif. - One year after T.H. Approval and Runaway Dancer emerged as the top long-distance grass horses in California, the division remains as gray as ever.
Ten older horses entered the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Sunday, but the $250,000 turf race at 1 3/8 miles boils down to a match of grays - T.H. Approval, the class of the field, and horse-for-course Runaway Dancer.
T.H. Approval's win last month in the Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park was his third in a Grade 2; Runaway Dancer's win this month in the Escondido Handicap was his third on the Del Mar turf.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Any trainer with a good 3-year-old pointing for Belmont Park's Jerome Handicap on Oct. 1 might want to start considering other options after watching Godolphin's Discreet Cat destroy a strong field of older allowance horses by 11 lengths here Friday.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - As one of the owners of Ashado, Paul Saylor left Saratoga dejected after last year's Personal Ensign Handicap. As the sole owner of Fleet Indian, Saylor left Saratoga extremely happy following Friday's running of the Grade 1, $400,000 .
Able to set a slow, uncontested pace under Jose Santos, Fleet Indian ran away from Balletto in the stretch to record a 4 1/4-length victory in the Personal Ensign. It was 6 3/4 lengths back to Sole Search in third. Yolanda B. Too and India Halo completed the order of finish.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sky Conqueror, a grandson of the legendary Canadian-bred Nijinsky, looks like a major contender in Sunday's $300,000 Nijinsky Stakes, at 1 1/2 miles on the grass.
Sky Conqueror is the leader of Woodbine's older male turf division. When he launched his local campaign in the Grade 3 Connaught Cup Stakes, he was a fast-closing third, beaten just a head by Remarkable News and Le Cinquieme Essai.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Lava Man, the leading older horse in California, is likely to make his next start in the $250,000 Clement Hirsch Turf Championship at 1 1/4 miles on turf on Sept. 30 instead of the $500,000 Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap on the main track on Oct. 7, trainer Doug O'Neill and co-owner Steve Kenly said on Friday.
O'Neill said that he has discussed plans for Lava Man in the last week with Kenly and co-owner Jason Wood following Lava Man's sixth consecutive stakes win in the Pacific Classic here last Sunday.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - After Gilded Gold traveled a long way for little reward, trainer Alan Goldberg hopes for better luck and a cleaner trip closer to home Sunday at Monmouth Park in the $80,000 Incredible Revenge Stakes for fillies and mare at 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf.
Gilded Gold most recently went to Calder for the $250,000 Distaff Turf Sprint Championship. The 6-year-old mare was the even-money favorite, but found nothing but trouble.
Gilded Gold, who normally sets the pace, wound up eighth in the 10-horse field and ran into traffic when she tried to rally.
Almost everything except for the installation of the Polytrack surface material itself has been completed in the massive renovation that has been ongoing since early May at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.
"The project is very far along and nearing completion," Keeneland publicist Jim Williams said Friday.