News from the track

By Byron King Across much of the country on Saturday, the stakes emphasis is on turf racing, with Laurel Park and Kentucky Downs each having multiple stakes on grass. So, that’s where I will focus on Saturday. I like three…

By Frank Angst Klimt surged past favored early leader Straight Fire in the stretch and drew off to about a 4 1/4-length victory in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (gr. I) Sept. 5 at Del Mar.Watch Replay The victory by Kaleem…

By Ron Mitchell Saturday, July 23, was unofficially “Pete Bradley Day” at Saratoga Race Course. The proprietor of Bradley Thoroughbred Services, a full-service bloodstock and equine insurance agency in Lexington, first had the pleasure of seeing Bitumen and Random Walk—two…

In a race reminiscent of her victory over Tepin nearly a year ago in the Ballston Spa, Dacita charged from last to a narrow victory over a game but hard-luck runner-up Recepta, with Rainha Da Bateria and the favorite Miss…

Bitumen found himself much farther back than he had in his smashing, ‘TDN Rising Star’-garnering debut, but he came alive turning for home here, and powered past his four rivals to win with authority. Belying 6-1 odds to set the…

By David Grening SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though only five 2-year-olds were entered in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga, there is an intriguing matchup between Bitumen and Random Walk in the six-furlong race. Bitumen, a son of…

by Ellis Starr The 78th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana Stakes is part of a magnificent opening weekend race card at historic Saratoga Race Course. All 10 fillies and mares are graded stakes winners, with two of them…

By Marty McGee Sweet Acclaim got the stakes victory her connections were seeking Saturday when she came through as an odds-on favorite to win the 12th $50,000 Ellis Park Turf in western Kentucky. Sweet Acclaim was coming off a near-miss…

Dacita beat Sea Calisi and Guapaza in the Grade 2, $500,000 New York Stakes on Friday at Belmont Park, but the big winner was Chad Brown, who trains all three fillies. Dacita, with Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, wins the New…

Sweet Acclaim (Ire), third in the 2013 G3 Oh So Sharp S. at Newmarket and in the 2014 GIII Appalachian S. at Keeneland, was fifth in the 2014 Tenski S. at Saratoga in her final start for trainer Chad Brown.…