SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jockey Luis Saez, who on July 9 tested positive for the coronavirus, is named on six horses Friday at Saratoga. He will be permitted to ride, provided he produces a negative COVID-19 test and gets clearance from a physician noting he can no longer transmit the virus.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – For now, trainer Christophe Clement plans to point both Decorated Invader and Gufo to the $500,000 Saratoga Derby on Aug. 15, but he will evaluate how both are training and look at the bevy of other options before committing both to the 1 3/16-mile turf race.
On Saturday, Decorated Invader passed his first distance test when he won the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes at 1 1/8 miles by 1 1/4 lengths. It was his third victory in as many starts this year, the other two coming at one mile.
The top three finishers in the Haskell Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth all emerged from the race in good order, and all will make their next start in the Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5 at Churchill Downs, meaning they will come into the Derby following a seven-week layoff.
Authentic narrowly lasted over Ny Traffic in the Haskell, with Dr Post another 4 1/2 lengths back in third. Authentic received a Beyer Speed Figure of 100, a career-best for a colt who has now won four times in five starts, his only loss a second-place finish to Honor A. P. in the Santa Anita Derby.
Maximum Security and Higher Power stayed on target for the postponed San Diego Handicap with quick works on a busy Saturday morning at Del Mar that saw 245 horses credited with timed drills.
Both Maximum Security and Higher Power were originally scheduled to meet Saturday afternoon in the Grade 2 San Diego. But that 1 1/16-mile race was postponed by one week owing to the cancellation of racing at Del Mar this week following 15 jockeys testing positive on Tuesday for coronavirus.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Heather Smullen had not sat on the back of Tiz the Law for about three months. It took less than a minute for her to realize how much the 3-year-old colt has changed in a short period of time.
Smullen guided Tiz the Law through a five-furlong workout in 59.63 seconds on Saturday morning over Saratoga’s main track. Working by himself, Tiz the Law went in fractions of 12.80, 24.41, 35.63, and got his final quarter in 24.00. He then proceeded to gallop out six furlongs in 1:12.84 and seven furlongs 1:26.20.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Tim Hamm said Dayoutoftheoffice came out of her six-length victory in Thursday’s Grade 2 Schuylerville Stakes in good order and she could very well stick around and train toward the Grade 1 Spinaway here on Sept. 6.
“She’s a great doer, she’ll eat the bottom out of the bucket all day every day,” Hamm said. “She was true to form last night and true to form this morning. She came out of the race great.”
Dayoutoftheoffice earned an 82 Beyer Speed Figure for her victory.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As a native of nearby Mechanicville, trainer Chad Brown has made no secret of his desire to win the Travers Stakes, the signature event of the Saratoga meet.
So far, Brown is winless in six tries at the Travers with nine horses. It looks like he’ll have another shot at it this year with Country Grammer, who won Thursday’s Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes by a neck over Caracaro.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Wesley Ward planned to work 2-year-olds Campanelle and Golden Pal at Keeneland over the weekend for planned stakes engagements in Europe in August.
Campanelle, who won the Group 2 Queen Mary – giving Ward his 11th Royal Ascot winner – is being pointed to the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville on Aug. 23. Ward has won that race twice already with No Nay Never (2013) and Lady Aurelia (2016).
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In 2017, the last time Whitmore shipped to Saratoga for the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt, he suffered a foot injury upon arrival and was forced to miss the race.
Three years later, Whitmore is still among the top sprinters in racing and on Monday he is expected to ship from Kentucky to Saratoga for next Saturday’s $250,000 Vanderbilt. Unlike in 2017, when he was flown to New York, this time Whitmore will come by van.
Del Mar has added Monday, July 27, to its racing schedule to make up one of the three days of racing lost this week after a coronavirus outbreak among jockeys.
Del Mar announced Wednesday that it would not race from Friday through Sunday this week after 15 jockeys tested positive for coronavirus. The jockeys are in the midst of a 10-day quarantine period.