#Bernard Baruch

This is "last call" weekend for Breeders' Cup hopefuls with more than a dozen "Win and You're In" races spread across three U.S. tracks. It's also Arc weekend in Paris and Winx seeks her 28th straight win in Australia. There's even more, with important 2-year-old races in Canada and the Group 1 Sun Chariot in England. Twenty-eight straight wins? It…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Wertheimer and Frere's Pao Alto looks to earn his first stateside victory for conditioner Graham Motion in Sunday's $135000 Artie Schiller, a one-mile inner turf test for 3-year-olds and up, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Pao Alto, a 5-year-old French-bred son of Intello, will cut back one furlong from his…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle Public Sector, L'Imperator and Lonesome Fugitive as he looks for his third consecutive score in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Knickerbocker, a nine-furlong inner turf test for 3-year-olds and upward, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The Knickerbocker is slated as…

It's 2-year-old showcase weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar, with top trainers sending out what they hope will turn into promising contenders for the 2022 Triple Crown. Throw in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) and the $600000 Flower Bowl Invitational (G1), a pair of Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In'' races the Spa, plus a $1 million race at…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- For the past two seasons, George Krikorian's War Like Goddess has displayed superiority amongst her staying female counterparts at graded stakes level on grass. In Saturday's Grade 1, $500000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, the talented bay mare will target a new task when facing males for the first time for Hall of Famer Bill Mott. The…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Peter Searles and Patty Searles' City Man stalked and pounced to a three-quarter length score in Saturday's $125000 Ashley T. Cole, a nine-furlong outer turf test for New York-breds 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. Trained by Christophe Clement and piloted by Trevor McCarthy,…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Until a young horse races in muddy conditions, you're never sure if he'll like it. It rained all day on closing day of the 154th Saratoga Race Course meet on Monday, and when Forte finally got his chance to run, in the penultimate race of the meet, he was like a kid who had been waiting all day to be let out of the house. It…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown clinched his fifth H. Allen Jerkens Award for leading trainer at Saratoga Race Course and secured his 12th stakes triumph of the summer meet when saddling Emaraaty to his first graded win in Closing Day Monday's 64th running of the Grade 3, $200000 Bernard Baruch Handicap for 3-year-olds and upward going…

Closing day at Saratoga features six 2-year-olds aiming to take a division lead on the road to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Gulfport (9-5) is the morning-line favorite for the Grade 1, $300000 Hopeful Stakes. Post time from Saratoga is 6:11 p.m. EDT, with FS2 showing the seven-furlong sprint for juveniles. The Hopeful is the first Grade 1 race of…