Trainers Graham Motion and Mike Stidham both are aiming to take down Breeders’ Cup juvenile races with promising Fair Hill-based runners.
G1 winner Ring Weekend and defending champ Blacktype will try to take down the newly renamed Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup at Laurel Park.
Just Howard will look to make it four straight wins when he tries his first graded stake in the G3 Commonwealth Derby Saturday at Laurel Park.
Delaware Park’s 25th annual Owners’ Day, set for September 30, has attracted big fields to its seven stakes.
Fair Hill-based Tequilita is the tepid 7-2 favorite for Saturday’s Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks, which has attracted an overflow field of 14 entrants.
Miss Temple City, one of the top distaff turfers of 2016, could manage no better than third in today’s G3 Matchmaker at Monmouth Park.
Sunday’s G1 Haskell Invitational will feature hometown hero Irish War Cry — and a potential “Hollywood story,” says Monmouth’s Bob Kulina.
New Jersey-bred Irish War Cry — owned by the daughter of Amory Haskell — is favored in Sunday’s Haskell Invitational and will break from the inside post.
Haskell Invitational contender Irish War Cry and jockey Rajiv Maragh “really do have a rapport,” says trainer Graham Motion.
For the eighth time in 21 years, a Graham Motion trainee won the G3 Robert Dick Memorial as Guilty Twelve won a thriller at Delaware Park.