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Currency Swap wore down 68-1 shot Trinniberg with a gritty run through the final yards Monday afternoon to take the Hopeful at Saratoga Race Course.Read More
Trainer Doug O’Neill has shipped Best Pal Stakes runner-up I’ll Have Another to Saratoga for Monday’s $250,000, Grade I Hopeful Stakes and entered maiden colt Basmati in Wednesday’s $250,000, Grade I Del Mar Futurity. It’s not that O’Neill has volunteered to provide racing fans with a measuring tool...Read More
Monday may be closing day at Saratoga, but the Grade 1 Hopeful could be just the beginning of bigger things for the 10 juveniles entered in the seven-furlong race. Read More
Bill Shoemaker became the first jockey to win a $1 million race when.......Read More
Secretariat won his second stakes race...Read More
Grade 2 Sanford winner Overdriven will undergo tests following the cancellation of Thursday morning’s scheduled breeze, trainer Todd Pletcher said.   The colt, owned by Repole Stable, stepped onto the main track shortly after the renovation break under exercise rider Patti Krotenko, poised to b...Read More
J C’s Pride, who surpassed the five-furlong track record at Saratoga Race Course when he graduated from the maiden ranks nearly two weeks ago, breezed a half-mile over the main track Monday morning in 48.15. Bobby Barbara, who trains the 2-year-old son of Henny Hughes for Joseph Bucci, said he is po...Read More
If you could pick one horse in history to have seen on your first ever visit to a Thoroughbred racetrack, who would it be? Perhaps Secretariat ...Read More
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  • bellesforever1 · Wow..what are the chances of seeing that big red horse first time out..i only saw him work once and i can still hear him galloping..1974 · 313 days ago ·
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  • CauseForConcern · Awesome. Not had too many trips abroad, but, I did see Holy Bull and Concern on my first visit. Just think, when Holy Bull was injiured @ Gulfstream, and subsequently retired from racing, the horse that emerged out of that race was Cigar. Wouldn't that have been something to seen that rivalry? · 313 days ago ·
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Boys At Tosconova lived up to advance billing Monday at Saratoga Race Course, coming from off the pace and pulling clear to a supremely easy 1 3/4-length victory over Stay Thirsty in the 106th running of the Grade 1, $250,000 Three Chimneys Hopeful for 2-year-olds.   Confidently ridden by Ramo...Read More
Monday is closing day for the 142nd meet at Saratoga Race Course, but the connections of the seven 2-year-olds entered in the Grade 1, $250,000 Three Chimneys Hopeful are anticipating it will just be the beginning for their colts.   Dozens of champions are among those who have won the seven-fu...Read More
There is nothing more exciting than discovering racing’s next star.  A potential Breeders’ Cup, Kentucky Oaks, or even the next Triple Crown  champion could be out there.  Juveniles have the world at their hooves this time of year.  You never know where the next champion is going...Read More
Think Quality Road can be beat?  Can Big Drama pull an upset? Will there be a Pletcher Superfecta in the Spinaway? Join your fellow handicappers in the Iron Maidens Thoroughbreds  Chat Room tonight at 9:30 PM EST to discuss the Labor Day Weekend's Graded Stakes Races.  The chat has bu...Read More
  • humphrey · Quality Road regressed in his last but overall this one towers over this field: Indian Dance and Tranquil Manner will be coming late but the race will be over by then and if Convocation tries this one early, his tongue will be hanging out badly · 635 days ago ·
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Wine Police breezed four furlongs on the Oklahoma Training Track in 50.50 seconds Wednesday morning, his final major workout in the lead up to Monday’s Grade 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful.   “It was smooth as glass,” trainer Steve Asmussen said of the workout. “All systems are go.”   The Hopef...Read More
Trainer Mark Hennig said he will try his recent maiden graduate Settle for Medal in the Grade 1, $250,000 Three Chimneys Hopeful for 2-year-olds on Saratoga’s Closing Day, September 6.   In his first start on July 2, Settle for Medal broke awkwardly and was last through the first quarter of a ...Read More
Steve Asmussen, who won Monday’s Grade 2 Saratoga Special with Kantharos, will try to win another graded stakes for 2-year-olds later in the meet with Wine Police, who breezed four furlongs in 1:01.70 yesterday in the seventh-quickest of 20 moves over the main track.   Wine Police, a 7 ¾-length...Read More
Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. had a quartet of horses on Saratoga Race Course’s main track this morning for six-furlong works: undefeated Trickmeister, multiple graded-stakes winner D’ Funnybone, promising 2-year-old Boys At Tosconova, and last year’s Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner, I Want Revenge.  ...Read More
Maybesomaybenot came out of his victory in yesterday’s Grade 2 Sanford in good order according to his trainer, Michael Maker.   Where the juvenile will race next will be determined at a later date, with the Grade 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful on Labor Day serving as one attractive option.   “An...Read More
With owner Samantha Siegel looking on, Boys At Tosconova had his first tour of Saratoga’s main track, going an easy five furlongs in 1:05.02 under jockey Ramon Dominguez.   “He went very well,” said trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr. “We’re happy with him.”   Purchased by Siegel and her father...Read More
Surprisingly, Dublin (Afleet Alex - Classy Mirage by Storm Bird) was the favorite at post time. He stumbled at the start, but recovered rather quickly to race in mid-pack.Read More
Robert Baker and Bill Mack's DUBLIN (Afleet Alex) had a lot going for him heading into Monday's $300,000 Hopeful S. (G1) at Saratoga. A son of 2004 Hopeful winner Afleet Alex, and conditioned by five-time winning Hopeful trainer D. Wayne Lukas, Dublin successfully added both to his family's legacy a...Read More

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View DetailsView Video09/05/11Sar97 fD02 MHopeful-G1Currency SwapTrinnibergBig Blue Nation1:26.16
View DetailsView Video09/06/10Sar97 fD02 MHopeful-G1Boys At TosconovaStay ThirstyWine Police1:23.27
View DetailsView Video09/07/09Sar107 fD02 MHopeful-G1DublinAspireAikenite1:23.52
View Details09/01/08Sar107 fD02 MHopeful-G1Vineyard HavenCribnoteMunnings1:23.40
View DetailsView Video09/03/07Sar97 fD02 MHopeful-G1Majestic WarriorReady's ImageMaimonides1:23.04
View Details09/04/06Sar47 fD02 MHopeful-G1Circular QuayScat DaddyUnbridled Express1:23.00
View Details08/27/05Sar97 fD02 MHopeful-G1First SamuraiHenny HughesToo Much Bling1:23.25
View DetailsView Video08/21/04Sar97 fD02 MHopeful-G1Afleet AlexDevils DiscipleFlamenco1:23.58
View Details08/30/03Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1Silver WagonChapel RoyalNotorious Rogue1:23.47
View Details08/31/02Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1Sky MesaPretty WildZavata1:23.08
View Details09/01/01Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1Came HomeMayakovskyThunder Days1:21.94
View Details08/30/97Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1Favorite TrickK. O. PunchJess M1:23.87
View DetailsView Video08/31/96Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1Smoke GlackenOrdwayGun Fight1:23.60
View DetailsView Video08/29/93Sar87 fD02 MHopeful-G1DehereSlew Gin FizzWhitney Tower1:15.80
View DetailsView Video08/27/77Sar56 1/2 fD02 MHopeful-G1AffirmedAlydarRegal And Royal1:15.40
View DetailsView Video08/26/72Sar76 fD0 HopefulSecretariatFlight To GloryStop The Music1:16.20
View DetailsView Video08/24/68Sar16 1/2 fD02 MHopefulTop Knight  1:16.00
View Details08/28/65Sar66 1/2 fD02 MHopefulBuckpasserImpressiveIndulto1:16.00
View DetailsView Video08/28/54Sar66 1/2 fD02 MHopefulNashuaSummer TanPyrenees1:17.80
View Details08/30/52Sar66 1/2 fD02 MHopefulNative DancerTiger SkinPlatan1:18.80
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