Ryan Martin
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown was highly impressed with a comeback allowance optional claiming victory from L’Imperator, so much so that he will step the four-time winner up in class for the 63rd running of the Grade 2, $200,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap on Monday, Closing Day at Saratoga Race Course.
Keith McCalmont
Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle a pair of strong contenders in Wit and Power Agenda in Monday’s 117th renewal of the Grade 1, $300,000 Hopeful, a seven-furlong sprint for juveniles at Saratoga Race Course.
Ryan Martin
Winchell Thoroughbreds and L and N Racing’s Echo Zulu will attempt to parlay a sensational debut victory into a graded stakes win as she takes on a field of nine 2-year-old fillies assembled for Sunday’s 130th running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Spinaway going seven furlongs at Saratoga Race Course.
Brian Bohl
Kentucky Derby-participant Like the King has continued to acclimate to a surface change in his last two starts and will now look to become a duel-surface graded stakes-winner as he headlines a six-horse field of 3-year-olds in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Saranac at 1 1/16 miles on Saratoga Race Course’s inner turf.
Brian Bohl
Live Oak Plantation’s graded stakes-winner Souper Sensational will look to build on a strong runner-up effort in a stakes sprint at Saratoga Race Course with a return engagement at the summer meet, headlining a six-horse field of 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Prioress contested at six furlongs at the Spa.
Keith McCalmont
George Krikorian’s War Like Goddess brings a three-race win streak into Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Flower Bowl, an 11-furlong inner turf test for older fillies and mares, at Saratoga Race Course.
