On paper at least, the $1,000,000 Whitney Stakes of 2025 over 1,800m at Saratoga on Saturday, August 2 is a rematch between two who made the show in last season’s Belmont – Mindframe and Sierra Leone. Since their first encounter at the Spa in June of 2024 when they crossed the wire behind Dornoch, these …
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It’s a rare enough thing to see sprinters tackling a mile, but that’s what My Boy Prince and Think Big do in the $750,000 Grade I Fourstardave Stakes from Saratoga on Saturday, August 2. Following their recent exploits in the Jaipur Stakes at the Spa during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, both Gary Barber and …
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After finding La Cara three lengths too good at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, Look Forward returns to Saratoga for the $500,000 Grade I Test Stakes over 1,400m on Saturday, 2 August. Not long after capturing the Haskell Stakes at another NYRA track with Preakness hero Journalism, Michael McCarthy now tries for elite success with …
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With the Triple Crown trail complete for another season and the form working out real well, Belmont hero Sovereignty returns to Saratoga for the $500,000 Grade II Jim Dandy Stakes of 2025 on Saturday, July 26 as a hot favorite. Four rivals face the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner at the Spa over 1,800m. …
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A field of eight sprinters including some Saratoga specialists hit the Spa on Saturday, July 19 for the $400,000 Grade II Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap over 1,200m. Three of last year’s top four finishers are back in Upstate New York for more. Perhaps the one they all have to beat, however, is 2024 Woody Stephens …
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Some familiar fillies face La Cara in the Coaching Club American Oaks of 2025 as she seeks another Grade I at Saratoga Race Course in Upstate New York. Mark Casse’s charge meets five rivals on the Spa track’s dirt in this $500,000 invitational race over 1,800m on Saturday, July 19. Fresh from her Acorn Stakes …
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Among six declared for the Diana Stakes of 2025 at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, July 12 are two Belmont Stakes Racing Festival winners from last month. Battling for a big slice of the $500,000 prize purse are Just A Game heroine Dynamic Pricing and New York victor She Feels Pretty. The local Chad Brown …
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The $400,000 Grade II Suburban Stakes over 2,000m on Independence Day sees a couple of horses who just missed the show in last year’s Belmont Stakes return to Saratoga 13 months on. Honor Marie and Antiquarian ran fourth and fifth in the final leg of the 2024 Triple Crown, but must improve on that. There’s …
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Not content with her 17-length romp in the Wonder Again Stakes during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, Nitrogen switches surfaces to grass as a hot favorite for the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes of 2025 over 1,800m at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, July 5. Mark Casse’s star filly goes up into Grade I company …
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Both Chad Brown and Todd Pletcher have three previous wins going in to the Pennine Ridge Stakes of 2025 on Belmont Stakes day, with America’s day at the races again taking place upstate at Saratoga, rather than in New York City. A Grade III contest for three-year-olds over an extended mile on the turf with …
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