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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The Belmont Stakes undercard on Saturday, June 7 contains a fascinating rematch between Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf second and third May Day Ready and Nitrogen in the Grade II Wonder Again Stakes of 2025. With $300,000 in the prize purse and an extended mile before them, this pair start the graded race action on …
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The Bed o’ Roses Stakes in 2025 has a $300,000 total prize purse at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival this year. As part of a fillies and mares only card on Friday, June 6, the 1,400m Grade II contest for older females has in recent years been dominated by a local barn. Chad Brown’s excellent …
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Book’em Danno and Nutella Fella both made the show in the Woody Stephens during the Belmont Racing Festival last year, so return to Saratoga for the Grade III True North Stakes of 2025 over 1,300m. These four-year-olds face a competitive $400,000 race for this reduced level after their previous exploits at the Upstate New York …
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Michael Trombetta speedster Future Is Now returns to Saratoga looking for a repeat in the Grade II Intercontinental Stakes of 2025 on Thursday, June 5 after winning the $200,000 turf sprint for fillies and mares at the Belmont Racing Festival 12 months ago. Now a five-year-old, the daughter of Great Notion went on to more …
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Older fillies and mares run over a mile in the Grade I Just A Game Stakes of 2025 with key form races available to bettors and oddsmakers alike for the $500,000 turf race at Saratoga on Friday, June 6. Keeneland’s Jenny Wiley Stakes is one such event with the first four home in the Commonwealth …
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