When Robert Evans purchased Raucous for $300,000 at the 2016 Keeneland September yearling sale, he had his eye on the future. Though he intended to race her, he also knew that upon retirement, she’d join his broodmare band, and she had what he was looking for. “She’s by Speightstown,” he said. “I wanted to get…
Under an unsettled Saratoga sky, R. Larry Johnson’s homebred Future Is Now earned her first graded stakes win in the $200,000 Intercontinental Stakes (G2T), edging favored Roses for Debra in a photo finish. Minutes after a downpour and high winds passed through Saratoga Race Course on June 7, nine fillies and mares lined up for the 5 1/2-furlong race run over a…
At no point during the running of the $150,000 Tremont Stakes did Studlydoright look like a winner, except for when it really counted. In the first stakes race of the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course, the two-year-old colt broke with alacrity from post 1 under jockey Xavier Perez, putting a head…
On Wednesday afternoon, I saw a video on Twitter that spanned the newly renovated ground floor of the clubhouse at Saratoga Race Course, and my jaw dropped. I may have actually winced. I felt a little sick. I had seen photos of the new Jim Dandy Bar, relocated and expanded, and they didn’t elicit much…
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