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West Point Thoroughbreds, Scarlet Oak Racing, and Titletown Racing’s Dontlookbackatall arrived in the final strides to post a thrilling win in Thursday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Caress presented by Albany Med Health System for older fillies and mares going 5 1/2-furlongs on the Mellon turf course at Saratoga Race Course.
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Trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. saddled his second stakes winner of the meet when Spirit Wind sprinted wire-to-wire under Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith to capture Wednesday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Honorable Miss Handicap, at Saratoga Race Course.
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Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas sat in his Saratoga Race Course office Wednesday morning, reviewing his spreadsheets and mapping out plans for his string of trainees on the Oklahoma portion of Saratoga’s expansive backstretch.
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Trainer Kenny McPeek has seen several fillies he has trained become fan favorites, especially the multiple Grade 1-winner Swiss Skydiver, who beat the boys in the 2020 Grade 1 Preakness after winning Saratoga Race Course’s Grade 1 Alabama.
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4 G Racing, Lance Gasaway and Magdalena Farm’s Grade 3-placed Gould’s Gold worked Saturday over Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma dirt training track in preparation for the Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy presented by Mohegan Sun, a nine-furlong test for sophomores, on July 27 at the Spa.
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Thomas Albrecht, Vincent Fusaro and James Klein’s The Big Torpedo went wire-to-wire to win Thursday’s $150,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a one-mile inner turf test for eligible state-sired sophomores, at Saratoga Race Course.