Basin broke his maiden at Saratoga before winning the Grade 1 Hopeful in 2019. NYRA/Coglianese/Chelsea Durand

As I browsed the Saratoga entries for Saturday, July 25, seeking both good betting races and possible story ideas, I did a quick search for maiden special weights, hoping that some promising juvenile(s).

One raced turned up, that for New York-bred fillies and mares, 3 years old and up.

I thought I must have screwed up the search, or maybe was misreading the entries.

Nope. On the second Saturday of Saratoga, there was no open juvenile MSW, the type of race that is practically a byword of this meet.

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