#Left Bank

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' multiple Grade 1-winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday's Grade 1, $750000 Cigar Mile Handicap presented by NYRA Bets, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher and piloted by fellow Hall of Famer John Velazquez, the 6-year-old son…

The fight for the top of the podium in the older male division was thought to have been between the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile champion Life Is Good and the multiple graded-stakes-winning Olympiad in Saturday's 95th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney. But CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm's Life Is Good, the esteemed 4-year-old son of Into…