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6 days ago |
attheraces.com | David Grening
By David Grening, Daily Racing FormFierceness and White Abarrio will line-up side by side for their showdown in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap at Saratoga. Fierceness, the 2024 Travers winner and 2-year-old champion of 2023, drew the rail in the Met Mile, which drew a field of only five, but four of those horses have combined to win 13 of their last 16 starts.
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6 days ago |
attheraces.com | David Grening
By David Grening, Daily Racing FormJournalism had always struck his trainer Michael McCarthy as a horse that could handle the three-races-in-five-weeks rigors of the Triple Crown. On Sunday, after watching him put in a terrific workout over Saratoga’s main track, McCarthy will give Journalism the chance to prove him right.
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1 week ago |
attheraces.com | David Grening
By David Grening, Daily Racing FormTrainer Bill Mott said the decision to skip the Preakness with Kentucky Derby winner Sovereignty doesn’t put any more pressure on him to win the Belmont Stakes than otherwise already exists. “It would be the same,” Mott said Thursday morning outside his Saratoga barn.
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1 week ago |
attheraces.com | David Grening
By David Grening, Daily Racing FormThe odds were already stacked against the European shipper Heart of Honor going into the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. But any chance the horse may have had was hampered when he acted up some in the gate and broke slowly away from it. Heart of Honor finished fifth, beaten 8 3/4 lengths by Journalism, in the nine-horse field. It was a respectable enough effort for trainer Jamie Osborne to continue on toward the June 7 Belmont Stakes.
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2 weeks ago |
attheraces.com | David Grening
By David Grening, Daily Racing FormRodriguez and Baeza both turned in serious workouts Friday morning at Santa Anita in preparation for scheduled starts in the $2 million Belmont Stakes at Saratoga on June 7. Rodriguez, the Wood Memorial winner who scratched from the Kentucky Derby due to a foot issue, went seven furlongs in 1:24.80. Santa Anita clocker Dane Nelson caught Rodriguez’s first five furlongs in 59.60 seconds.
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