Given all of the major filly and mare turf stakes that trainer Chad Brown has captured, it's hard to believe he has yet to appear in the winner's circle after the Saratoga Oaks (G2T) for 3-year-old fillies.
Letters to the editor for the Aug. 6 issue of BloodHorse Daily include a submission critical of the omission of the Preakness (G1) in the recently announced Churchill Downs Inc.-New York Racing Association championship series for 3-year-olds.
In Beyond the Bidding, BloodHorse sales editor Olivia Newman takes a look at notable trends, accomplishments, and personalities around the North American sales scene.
There will be a touch of nostalgia attached to the Aug. 8 Whitney Stakes (G1) thanks to trainer Mark Casse and D. J. Stable's brilliant 4-year-old filly Nitrogen.
Godolphin's Charlie Appleby-trained Pacific Avenue sustained an injury to his right foreleg the morning of Aug. 5 during routine exercise at Saratoga Race Course and has been scratched from the Aug. 8 $750,000 Saratoga Derby (G1).
Fortitudine made a striking start to his career Aug. 5 at Kempton Park, when the full brother to Rebel's Romance demolished his rivals by 21 lengths in the 1 3/8-mile novice on the all-weather surface.
Deterministic aims to win his second consecutive Fourstardave Stakes (G1T) and extend his win streak to six Aug. 8 when he faces a rematch with Rhetorical and a tough field in the $750,000 contest at Saratoga Race Course.
Take A Breath heads the home team contingent against an eastern invasion in the $200,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes (G2T) Aug. 8, going a mile and one-sixteenth on the Del Mar turf course.