Saratoga: Brown clinches training title with Baruch win

Agate Road provided Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. with their third straight collaborative score in Wednesday's Grade 2, $200000 Pilgrim Stakes at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet. He made a sweeping wide move in the stretch to capture the 45th running of the 1 1/16-mile test for juveniles over the outer turf. Pletcher and…

Hard to Justify won the 2023 Miss Grillo Stakes (G2) at Belmont at the Big A, a "Win & You're In" for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, giving trainer Chad Brown his record 10th win in this race. Wise Racing's Hard to Justify asserted her talents in her stakes debut when pouncing to victory in Wednesday's Grade 2, $200000 Miss Grillo, a 1…

SARATOGA SPRINGS - The rain came down, and so did betting handle at Saratoga Race Course this summer. After two straight seasons in which all-sources wagering broke the meet record by exceeding $800 million, Saratoga fell just short of that mark in 2023, at $799229288 for the 40-day meet that concluded on Monday. There's little doubt that the…

Pioneering Spirit stalked and pounced to a 2 3/4-length victory in Monday's 65th running of the listed $150000 Bernard Baruch Handicap for 3-year-olds and upward going 1 1/16 miles over the firm inner turf at Saratoga. Trainer by Linda Rice and piloted by Jose Lezcano, the 4-year-old American Pharoah gelding was claimed for A. Bianco Holding for…

Channel Maker after his Bowling Green (G2) score July 30 (Susie Raisher) By Ryan Martin - NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.- The evergreen 9-year-old Channel Maker will strive for a rare feat in Saturday's 49th running of the Grade 1, $750000 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer going 1 1/2 miles over the inner turf at Saratoga Race…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will flex his turf muscles Friday at Saratoga when he sends out three solid contenders - Appraise, Mischievous Angel, and Carl Spackler - as he looks for a record-equaling seventh victory in the Grade 2, $500000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, a one-mile…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will flex his turf muscles today at Saratoga when he sends out three top contenders - Appraise, Mischievous Angel, and Carl Spackler - as he looks for a record-equaling seventh victory in the Grade 2, $500000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, a one-mile inner…

Dakota Gold winning the Hudson Valley. (Adam Coglianese) NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRING, N.Y. - Reeves Thoroughbred Racing's Dakota Gold is primed for Saturday's $135000 Fasig-Tipton Lure, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test restricted to older horses that have not won a graded race in 2023, at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Danny Gargan, Dakota…

The Estate of Robert J. Amendola's Evvie Jets looks to continue her recent stakes success in Wednesday's 20th running of the $135000 De La Rose at Saratoga Race Course, a one mile inner turf test for older fillies and mares that have not won a graded stakes in 2023. Trained by Mertkan Kantarmaci, Evvie Jets found redemption from a distant…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When it comes to turf racing at Saratoga, the phrase "Brown on the green" is most fitting. Having recently won his record eighth edition of the Diana Stakes, four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will look to extend his dominance on the Saratoga grass this afternoon in the Lake George Stakes. The Mechanicville…

Chez Pierre takes the Maker's Mark Mile at Keeneland. (Coady Photography) By Brian Bohl ELMONT, N.Y. - Lael Stables' Chez Pierre (FR) headlines a competitive field of seven in Saturday's Grade 3, $200000 Poker for 4-year-olds and up contesting one mile on the Belmont Park Widener turf course on Saturday, Belmont Stakes Day. The 38th running of the…

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. - Nice Guys Stables' King Cause may have been the oldest horse in a 10-horse field, but the 7-year-old son of Creative Cause pulled off a 14-1 upset to land his first graded stakes victory for trainer Mike Maker in Sunday's Grade 3, $150000 Knickerbocker for 3-year-olds and up traveling nine furlongs over the inner turf at the…

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…

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.- Lightning finally struck for John D. Gunther and Tanya Gunther's Love And Thunder, who captured her first graded stakes win with a last-to-first move, storming down the stretch to collar pacesetter Evvie Jets in Saturday's Grade 3, $175000 Athenia for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward going nine furlongs on the inner turf…

Lightning finally struck for John D. Gunther and Tanya Gunther's Love And Thunder, who captured her first graded stakes win with a last-to-first move, storming down the stretch to collar pacesetter Evvie Jets in Saturday's $175000 Athenia (G3) for fillies and mares going nine furlongs on the inner turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The…

OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Klaravich Stables' McKulick will strive for victory in two-thirds of the filly division of the Caesars Turf Triple when taking on five others in the third running of Saturday's Grade 3, $700000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational for 3-year-old fillies traveling 11 furlongs over the inner turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall…

Klaravich Stables' McKulick will strive for victory in two-thirds of the filly division of the Caesars Turf Triple when taking on five others in the third running of Saturday's Grade 3, $700000 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational for 3-year-old fillies traveling 11 furlongs over the inner turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. Trained by Chad Brown,…

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…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.- Owner Dean Reeves is looking to end the Saratoga Race Course meet the same way he started it: with a Grade 3 victory with multiple stakes-winner City Man. This time, the talented New York-bred son of Mucho Macho Man will contest the $200000 Bernard Baruch Handicap for 3-year-olds and upward going 1 1/16 miles over the inner…

Flavien Prat had a very good day at Monmouth Park Saturday winning four graded stakes in a row including the Grade 1 United Nations. Earlier in the week, Prat also won a stakes race at Saratoga. The achievement earned Jockey of the Week honors. The award, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, honors jockeys who are members of the Jockeys'…

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Four-time Eclipse Award winner and meet-leading trainer Chad Brown will send out stakes winners Dolce Zel and Eminent Victor in pursuit of his sixth victory in Friday's 27th running of the Grade 3, $175000 Lake George at Saratoga Race Course. Brown has captured the last three editions of the one mile inner turf test for…