Fair Hill-based Miss Temple City, trained by Graham Motion for Sagamore Farm (and others), looks to find the wire first after a fourth-place finish in England.
Top runners from trainers Graham Motion and John Servis will aim for the top prize in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Delaware Handicap — but it won’t be easy.
Main Sequence, the 2014 Eclipse champion turf horse and older male, has been retired, his connections said.
Trainer Graham Motion has won six of the 18 runnings of the G3 Robert Dick Memorial at Delaware. Lady of Gold is one of his two shots to win a seventh.
Trainer Graham Motion earned his 2,000th career victory today when his trainee Rachel Wall romped to a 10-length win at Delaware Park.
White Clover’s score in yesterday’s Our Mims at Delaware Park punched her ticket to the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks.
Hilltop Stakes winner Miss Temple City is bound for Royal Ascot and the Coronation Cup, trainer Graham Motion said, while Donworth will run at Belmont.
Main Sequence, who won the Grade 1 United Nations at Monmouth last year en route to an Eclipse Award, will be pointed to that race again this year.
Perique will look to take a big step in the DuPont Distaff on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard, while Miss Ella hopes to remain undefeated.
Fortune Pearl tunes up for her tilt with Stophchargingmaria in the Allaire DuPont, Commissioner seeks a second graded win, and other Preakness weekend notes.