Trainer Tom Amoss had three of his stakes winners out early Saturday morning for workouts, including Mylute, who worked a half-mile in 52.51 seconds under jockey Rosie Napravnik.
Afterward, Amoss said that Mylute would stay in Saratoga rather for next Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy as opposed to next Sunday’s Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It will be the early speed of Readthebyline versus the late run of Awesome Vision when those two head a field of six New York-breds entered in Monday’s $100,000 Evan Shipman Stakes at Saratoga.
Readthebyline, a gelding by Read the Footnotes, is coming off a six-length victory in an open-company allowance race at Belmont Park on June 22. He earned a career-best 103 Beyer Speed Figure for the performance.
Dance to the Moon has not visited the winner’s circle since Sept. 22, 2011, when she recorded her third straight victory at Woodbine.
On Tuesday, Dance to the Moon will be looking to end her 14-race drought when she faces seven rivals in Fort Erie’s $75,000 Rainbow Connection, a five-furlong turf race for Ontario-sired fillies and mares.
“The distance isn’t ideal, but it’s better than seven furlongs,” said Michael Doyle, who trains the 6-year-old Dance to the Moon for owner Scott Abbott. “It’s just an opportunity to try and win a stakes with her.
Kentucky Derby winner Orb had his third workout since the Belmont Stakes, going a half-mile in 49.20 seconds Saturday morning over the dirt course at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.
Trainer Shug McGaughey, who attended the work at Fair Hill, said Orb shaded 24 seconds in his final quarter and galloped out five furlongs in “1:01-and-some change.” Orb worked by himself under exercise rider Jennifer Patterson.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Game On Dude, unbeaten in four major stakes in California and West Virginia, worked a half-mile in 48.60 seconds at Del Mar on Saturday, his first workout since a win in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 6.
Trained by Bob Baffert, Game On Dude is the leading candidate for the $1 million Pacific Classic here Aug. 25. In the last two years, Game On Dude has finished fourth and second in the Pacific Classic.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Silsita certainly knows what to do around a photo-finish camera. The versatile 3-year-old filly posted her third career victory, all by the margin of a slim nose, when out nodding a game Broken Spell to capture Saturday’s $100,000 My Princess Jess Stakes at Saratoga.
Silsita, a 3-year-old daughter of Macho Uno, won her career debut by a nose last fall at Calder and the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks by the same margin over the synthetic surface at Turfway Park in March.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap won’t officially be run until 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 3. It could have been run 5:45 a.m. Saturday.
Fort Larned and Mucho Macho Man – definite starters for the $750,000 Whitney – and reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan, who is a doubtful Whitney starter, all worked at virtually the same time early Saturday over Saratoga’s main track.
Buff Daddy will try and make amends when he runs in an $8,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up Monday at Northlands Park. The one-mile race drew 10 horses and goes as the sixth race on an eight-race card that begins at 1 p.m. Mountain.
DEL MAR, Calif. – This summer, Sprouts has won stakes against open company and California-breds in consecutive starts. Her next objective will be the highest goal of them all – a win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Aug. 31 at the start of Labor Day weekend.
