The classy Nations Pride lived up to his advance billing with a flashy score in Sunday’s Grade 1 Arlington Million to top Colonial Downs’s biggest day.
Trainer Charlie Appleby has the morning line favorite in two of Colonial Downs’s seven stakes Sunday, including the Grade 1 Arlington Million.
Graham Motion will saddle one runner in each Colonial Downs graded stake Sunday: Trikari, Mission of Joy, and Highland Chief.
Colonial Downs has shifted its scheduled August 10 Arlington Million card to Sunday, August 11 because of forecasted rain.
The racing gods smiled on Colonial Downs Arlington Million day: The Secretariat statue and a Tweedy were there, and a Va-bred won the G2 Secretariat Stakes.
Nagirroc and Never Explain set Pimlico course records May 20. Repeat efforts would make them winners in the Secretariat and Arlington Million Saturday.
The Grand Slam of Grass once connected Colonial Downs and Arlington Park. With the Secretariat Stakes now moved to Colonial, the connection lives on.
Two months after trainer Jamie Ness returned from a suspension for clenbuterol violations, his barn is growing, and has its first graded stakes win.
A trifecta’s worth of musings: the Arlington Million and the Sword Dancer, tweeting horses, and medication reforms.