A pair of Maryland-breds, multiple graded winner Future Is Now and 2yo Romeo, settled for minor spoils in Saratoga stakes Thursday.
In the second Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2025, Maryland-bred Mindframe took over among older horses, while Simply Joking (PA) is the top soph.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now, who earned her first graded win last year in the Intercontinental, will return to Saratoga Thursday to defend it.
Future Is Now and Post Time are the big winners among Maryland-bred champions, announced this week, with the horse of the year still to be revealed.
On the heels of a season that saw him place in the Breeders’ Cup, Maryland-bred Post Time has been named the Top Midlantic-bred of 2024.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now, a two-time Grade 2 winner, will get a break and is slated to return to race in 2025.
Maryland-bred Post Time, now Breeders’ Cup-bound, has taken the top spot in the newest Top Midlantic-bred Poll.
With a Grade 1 win and two other stakes scores this year, New Jersey-bred Book’em Danno is currently the leader in the Top Midlantic-bred Poll.
Pennsylvania-bred Dontlookbackatall hopes to stretch her win streak to three in Thursday’s G3 Caress at the Spa in a race with a serious Midlantic flavor.
Book’em Danno won the G1 Woody Stephens to head a Midlantic-bred assault on Saratoga, as eight horses bred here finished one-two in stakes.