No bumping, no jostling, no issues, no problem for Sierra Leone. Seizing the lead from a game Highland Falls in the stretch with his patented closing style, Sierra Leone won the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) in front of packed house at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, with favorite Fierceness fadi...
Trainer Rusty Arnold doesn’t have the stable numbers of Saratoga heavyweights like Todd Pletcher, Chad Brown, Linda Rice and Bill Mott. Keeping a much lower profile, Arnold is quietly putting up Saratoga stats that make bettors smile. He is 1-0-1 from only three runners (the win, a $16.40 upset, w...
It was a hot time last weekend in Saratoga Springs, both in the old town and at the racetrack. Temperatures soared into the mid to upper 80s without a ripple of cooling breeze, making for toasty conditions in the venerable wooden grandstand. The racing action warmed to the occasion, topped by Fierce...
Bob Baffert plans to send out a couple of heavyweights on Saturday, top-rated National Treasure in the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) and highly-acclaimed Adare Manor in the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch (G1) at Del Mar. National Treasure, the 2023 Preakness (G1) winner, is 2-for-3 as a 4-year-old, wit...
Two strides from triumph, tragedy struck at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday when the popular filly Maple Leaf Mel sustained a catastrophic injury in the $500,000 Test Stakes (G1) in front of a horrified crowd on Whitney Day. Maple Leaf Mel, trained by Melanie Giddings, had outclassed her rivals and...
Maple Leaf Mel is set to step to the top of the class and so is her trainer, Melanie Giddings. Undefeated in five career starts, Maple Leaf Mel makes her Grade 1 debut in the $500,000 Test Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday. Giddings, meanwhile, began her own training career less than a year ago, and [&...
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