ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – In the past five years, European invaders have won seven of the 15 Grade 1 races on the Arlington Million programs, and they are 1 for 1 in the new American St. Leger Stakes. International shipping no longer presents the imposing hurdles of the past, and overseas connections have become increasingly savvy about choosing horses that will fit American races. Fourteen Europeans are bedded down in Barn 28 on the Arlington backstretch this week, and it will be surprising if several of them don’t prove to be major players Saturday.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y - Hangover Kid wasn’t feeling too well earlier in the week. But, he was just fine Thursday afternoon, uncorking a powerful rally down the center of Saratoga’s inner turf course under Irad Ortiz Jr. to win the $100,000 West Point Stakes for New York-breds by one length.
Hear the Footsteps, who split horses in midstretch to battle for the lead, finished second by a nose over Kharafa. Lubash, last year’s West Point winner and 2-1 favorite Thursday, finished fourth.
Sorta Special could have a distinct tactical advantage over the competition Saturday when she defends her title in the $40,000 Spicy Stakes at Arapahoe Park. She looks like the speed of the 1 1/16-mile race for Colorado-bred fillies and mares, just as she was last season, when she wired a field of 10.
Canterbury Park on Saturday will host the third annual Fillies Race for Hope, a day of horse racing and fund-raising to benefit the Hope Chest for Breast Cancer Foundation and Pay It Forward Fund. Both organizations assist the families of breast cancer patients during what can be difficult financial times. Each race on Saturday’s card is for fillies and mares, anchored by the $50,000 Hoist Her Flag Stakes and the $50,000 Minnesota HBPA Distaff.
After an unsuccessful road trip to Monmouth Park last month, Lucy’s Bob Boy is back home at Charles Town, where he will be an overwhelming favorite against five other West Virginia-breds in the $50,000 Frank Gall Memorial at seven furlongs.
Colonial Flag, a Grade 3 stakes winner in Canada last season, and Warm Glow, a lightly raced 5-year-old mare who has put together a three-race winning streak, head the cast for the $50,000 Rosenna, an overnight stakes for fillies and mares scheduled for 1 1/8 miles on Delaware Park’s turf course.
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DEL MAR, Calif. - Liaison, a four-time stakes winner who was fifth in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap here July 27, will start in the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 25, trainer Bob Baffert said Thursday.
A horse who began his career sprinting 4 1/2 furlongs at Charles Town and earned himself a berth in the 2012 Preakness has the most intriguing story line among nine older New York-breds in the lineup for Saturday’s $50,000 Leon Reed Memorial Handicap at Finger Lakes.
Pretension, whose win in the 1 1/16-mile Canonero II at Pimlico was sandwiched by non-competitive performances in the Illinois Derby and Preakness, will run six furlongs Saturday for just the third time in a career spanning 17 races over three seasons.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Almost immediately after Fort Larned finished fifth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap on Aug. 3, trainer Ian Wilkes said he wanted to run back in the Grade 1 Woodward here Aug. 31.