6th-SAR, $93k, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 3:49 p.m. EDT Graham Motion will debut an intriguing Flaxman Holdings homebred in SOGLIO (Scat Daddy), a dark bay out of GSW turfer Sea of Showers (Seattle Slew). Her second dam, Chimes of Freedom (Private Account), was a MG1SW in England who produced MGISW champion sprinter Aldebaran (Mr. Prospector) [...]

1st-SAR, $93k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 11:35 a.m. EDT A blockbuster Travers Day card at Saratoga wastes no time getting down to business, kicking off with this intriguing juvenile maiden heat. Todd Pletcher will send out firster MONACO (Uncle Mo), owned by a partnership of the Coolmore contingent and Repole Stable. A $150,000 Keeneland September yearling, [...]

Shirl Penney wasn't supposed to be here. Standing in the Saratoga paddock, watching his Hall of Fame trainer saddle the favorite in the featured race of the day, preparing to be interviewed on live television. He makes sure, as he always does, to soak all of this in. While only 39 years old, Penney tells [...]

It was a little over a year ago that the connections of Lady Eli (Divine Park) went from the highest of highs to a devastating and terrifying low. The superstar turfer, coming off of a routinely brilliant performance in winning the Grade I Belmont Oaks July 4, stepped on a nail on the way back [...]

Absent the usual imposing contingent of European shippers, 'TDN Rising Star' Beach Patrol (Lemon Drop Kid) looms as the horse to beat in the $450,000 Grade I Secretariat S. on the Arlington Million undercard. The $250,000 KEENOV buy started his 2016 campaign with a pair of open-length tallies at Santa Anita for Gary and Mary [...]

There typically aren't many holes on the Grade I schedule at Saratoga. Pretty much every major division is covered. But until this year, one such gap existed for turf milers, who had to wait until the GI Woodbine Mile in September to get their shot at a top-level score. That is no longer an issue, [...]

Around this time last year, Godolphin's Frosted (Tapit) was spending his race days chasing American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) around, never quite getting to the big horse. Now, however, after an incredible blowout win in the GI Mohegan Sun Metropolitan H. June 11 at Belmont, Frosted is that big horse, and he's scared away much [...]

Ramsey homebred Camelot Kitten (Kitten's Joy), barely on the radar in the 3-year-old turf division at the beginning of 2016, can put a stranglehold on it with a win in Friday's featured GII Hall of Fame S., going nine furlongs on the Saratoga inner turf. A winner of his debut routing on the Belmont turf [...]

A septet of three-year-olds from all different directions will meet in the Grade II Amsterdam S., with all of them looking for their first graded score, and all looking like they rate a fair shot. Zayat Stables' King Kranz (Munnings) brings the most accomplished resume into the race, having run second in a pair of graded [...]

In a career that includes 17 wins in 22 starts, 10 Grade I victories and a pair of Breeders' Cup tallies, it's hard to pick out a singular moment where Beholder (Henny Hughes) shined brightest. Last Aug. 22, however, the bay mare produced her most staggering accomplishment to date–an 8 1/4-length demolition in Del Mar's [...]

The Grade II Jim Dandy S. got a surprise defection when Preakness winner Exaggerator (Curlin) entered Sunday's GI Haskell Invitational, but Saratoga's traditional prep for the GI Travers S. still drew a strong field of six with plenty of star power. The first two finishers in the June 11 GI Belmont S., separated by a [...]

It's tough to imagine a more auspicious beginning to a trainer's career than the one Jorge Abreu enjoyed Sunday at Saratoga. His first starter, a 4-year-old chestnut filly named Woodville (Ghostzapper), was bet down to 13-5 for her belated debut in a New York-bred maiden special weight. Tracking the pace from third, she sidled up [...]