Horse Racing: Maryland racing down to 127 dates in 2025; Flavien Prat nearing records for most stakes and graded stakes won in a year

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Here comes the inclement weather at Saratoga.

A quick passing storm is the alert at the track, windy.

 

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What a race. Paco and Irad. Steel cage match awaits.

Two jocks who shall we say have a history.

 

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$26 million bet so far at Saratoga. The passing shower was brief.

 

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Through 10 races, $29 million bet.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

tail end of Day 2 OF THE Beltoga meet now on FS1

 

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Over $3 million bet in the finale.

Total bet for the card exceeded $38 million.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Seize the Grey retains favorite status at 7-2 heading into the Belmont or as it is nicknamed Beltoga Stakes..... Mystik Dan remains third choice entering the weekend;

Saturday's odds for Cumberland Raceway;

First Tracks Cumberland – Maine Harness Racing

www.firsttrackscumberland.com

 

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[CHRDANHUTCH]

Oaks winner Thorpedo Anna dominates Acorn

 

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Friday, June 7, 2024

• Frank Stronach news just breaking. Another of these stories in which the legal process will play out.

Saratoga (New York):

• Day Two: Four-day meet from June 6-9.
• Card: 12 races of which four were graded stakes.
• Handle: $38.5 million bringing the total for the first two days to above $56 million.
• Attendance: 27,000+
• Irad Ortiz, Jr., who was hospitalized after a starting gate injury yesterday, won four times today.
• Todd Pletcher is the only trainer to win more than twice through two days.
• Race 12: Thorpedo Anna (Brian Hernandez, Jr./Kenny McPeek) won the third leg of the Triple Tiara in winning the $500,000 Grade I Acorn Stakes. Sent off at less than even-money, the winner of the Kentucky Oaks has won five of six races lifetime including both Triple Tiara races in which she entered. She was purchased for $40,000 and has earned over $1.7 million. That profit and the excitement related to winning graded stakes is the dream of almost ever horse owner.

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• Race 11: Didia (Jose Ortiz/Ignacio Correas IV) was sent off at 9-to-1 yet won the $750,000 Grade 1 New York Stakes. The trainer won a Grade 1 for just the second time (also a Breeders' Cup race).

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• Race 10: Chili Flag (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Chad Brown) was sent off 4-to-1 and won the Grade I $500,000 Just a Game Stakes. The trainer sent out an exorbitant five horses in a field of seven and finished 1-2. Chili Flag, bred in France where she spent about half of racing career, passed the $1,000,000 mark in career earnings.

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• Race 9: Future Is Now (Paco Lopez/Mike Trombetta) won the Grade I $200,000 Intercontinental Stakes by a head in a fierce dual against Roses for Debra (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Christophe Clement) who was sent off the 1-to-2 favorite.

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Nearing $30 million bet at Saratoga, start of the pool for race 6.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Reminder: Fox and FS1 are simulcasting the same program at 4 pm

 

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I don't think I have ever seen a winner's circle picture with the trainer so far left as Todd Pletcher was in that victory. Usually a trainer is best the horse's rear. Mike Repole and company had a large presence. Many people in it.

 

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$38 million bet at the Spa as race 7 approaches.

 

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Lone first time starters and that betting angle succeeds again: 24-to-1 at Delaware.

 

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$54 million bet so far at Saratoga.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Impressive win by Cogburn!

 

[GKJ]

Big time win by National Treasure in the Met Mile

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

$81 million bet at the Spa. Approaching race 11 of 14.

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

mindframe - can he destroy his foes like the way fierceness did as a 2 year old? could this be repole stable's best horse?

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Beltoga as it is now known as calls to post @ 6:41; DORNACH

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

nice shit ride by irad!!!!

anyway, congrats to all that booked the winner.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

$51 million bet on the race, $116 bet at Saratoga so far which is a record for a non-TC year.

 

[GKJ]

Mindframe should’ve won, came off way too far.

Happy for Jayson Werth though.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Makes me wonder if this can become an annual event (different week, once Aqueduct closes). The novelty of the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga highlighting this four-day meet has been electric.

Some explanations await regarding the horse that veered and why.

Sierra Leone wasn't made for that distance. Longer, yes

Honor Marie had a shaky start.