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Blue Devil Racing Stable's Celtic Dawn (Honest Mischief), who was vanned off after winning Saratoga's sixth race Wednesday afternoon, underwent surgery to repair a fracture to her left front pastern at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Saratoga Thursday morning.

“Celtic Dawn was treated at Rood & Riddle in Saratoga and the surgery to stabilize an incomplete fracture of her pastern this morning went well,” said Blue Devil's Marc Holliday. “She is expected to make a full recovery.”

Trained by Carlos Martin, the New York bred homebred won the 5 1/2-furlong statebred test for 2-year-olds by three lengths. Taken off the turf because of rain, the track was officially listed as sloppy.

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   'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light) is among late nominees for Del Mar's GI Pacific Classic Aug. 30. The 4-year-old is owned St. Elias Stables and Repole Stable, the latter also campaigns GI Stephen Foster winner Mindframe (Constitution). With the goal of keeping the two Repole runners separate until the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar in November, Mindframe is slated to contest the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga Aug. 31. The Pacific Classic is also a 'Win & You're In' race for the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Trainer Todd Pletcher worked Fierceness last Saturday at Saratoga. He went four furlongs in :47.66 (3/135).

The champion juvenile colt of 2023, Fierceness won last year's GI Florida Derby in addition to the GII Jim Dandy and GI Travers Stakes. Second to Sierra Leone in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, he returned this year to win the GII Alysheba at Churchill Downs. Most recently, he was runner-up in the GI Met Mile in June and fourth last out in the GI Whitney earlier this month.

In other Pacific Classic news, 'TDN Rising Star' Nysos (Nyquist) worked Thursday at Del Mar, just five days since his last workout. He went five furlongs in :58.80 (3/31).

“He went very well,” Baffert noted, adding that he may give Nysos one more breeze before the race. “He'll probably go something easy next week. So far so good.”

Winner of the GIII Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar last season, the Baoma Corp. runner won this year's GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes in addition to the GIII Triple Bend and GII San Diego Stakes July 26. He was a neck second to Mindframe in the GI Churchill Downs Stakes in May.

In related news, this year's Pacific Classic card will be the richest day of racing ever (outside of the Breeders' Cup) at the seaside oval. The purses for the 11-race program add up to $2,374,000, over $100,000 more than the previous record set on Pacific Classic Day in 2023.

“The 10% purse increase going into this summer,” racing secretary David Jerkens gives as one of the reasons for the increase. “We also increased our Maiden Dirt Bonus inflating some purses to $100,000 and we have a couple of maiden races that day.”

The purses for the five stakes races on the Pacific Classic undercard remain the same as last year. The GII Del Mar Handicap and the GII Del Mar Mile are each worth $300,000. The GIII Green Flash and the GII Torrey Pines each have purses of $150,000.

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Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 225 entries, led by the dam of GI Kentucky Oaks runner up Drexel Hill (Bolt d'Oro), for its August Digital Sale, which may be viewed online here. Bidding is now open and will close Tuesday, August 26, beginning at 2 PM ET.

The catalogue offers horses of racing age, breeding stock (including mares with foals at foot), weanlings, yearlings, and a stallion prospect. A substantial portion of the catalogue is comprised of racing stock, including 85 horses of racing age and two-year-old racing prospects. These include recent stakes winning, stakes performing, and winning two-year-olds.

“We have a fantastic catalogue for our August Digital Sale,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “The horses of racing age on offer represent a strong group of in-form runners, eligible for a wide range of conditions. The sale also includes an exciting selection of two-year-olds–highlighted by a recent Saratoga stakes winner.”

“There is high class breeding stock on offer as well–'November' type quality that is available right now in August,” noted Aaron.

Featured offerings include:

Ascot Walk (hip 1): Multiple stakes producer and 100% winner producer is the dam of this year's GI Kentucky Oaks runner up and Busher Stakes winner Drexel Hill. She has also produced Regaled, a graded stakes placed earner of $219,110; and Grazie, a debut winning 2-year-old filly who runs in Friday's Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga. In foal to Horse of the Year Cody's Wish, she is consigned by Turning Point Bloodstock, agent.

Blue Forty Two (hip 3): Debut winning 2-year-old, third in Dover Stakes on August 14. Consigned by Christopher Seale.

Crevalle d'Oro (hip 6): Graded stakes-placed daughter of Constitution. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

Hoist the Gold (hip 9): A multiple Grade II winner, including a victory in the prestigious Cigar Mile, he also placed in three Grade I events–the Metropolitan Handicap, Churchill Downs Stakes, and Malibu Stakes–on his way to career earnings of over $1.5 million. Consigned by Watershed Bloodstock, agent for Dream Team Racing.

Hoist the Gold wins the GII Cigar Mile | Sarah Andrew

Sassy Fox (hip 19): Debut winning 2-year-old daughter of Flameaway, second in Blue Hen Stakes on August 14. Consigned by Buckland Sales, agent.

Bail Us Out (hip 37): Multiple graded stakes placed 4-year-old horse of racing age. Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent.

Snow Face Princess (hip 39): 2-year-old daughter of Midshipman won Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga on August 17. She is out of a daughter of blue-hen producer Moonlight Sonata. Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent.

Swamp King (hip 188): 2-year-old colt by Silver State won maiden special weight at Ellis Park on August 17. Consigned by Claiborne Farm, agent.

Plus 95 broodmares or broodmare prospects including: stakes producers, stakes-credentialed broodmare prospects, and mares in foal to the likes of Arabian Knight, Arcangelo, Candy Ride (Arg), Cody's Wish, Cyberknife, Kingsbarns, Prince of Monaco, Seize the Grey, Timberlake, and Yaupon.

To create an account or register to bid for the August Digital Sale, prospective buyers should visit here.

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FOX broadcast network will provide television coverage of the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup from Saratoga Race Course Sunday, August 31, NYRA announced Thursday.

Additionally, a special edition of Saratoga Live presented by Caesars Sportsbook will air on FOX from 1-2 p.m.

To allow for national broadcast viewership, Jockey Club Gold Cup Day will feature a first post time of 11:20 a.m.

The Jockey Club Gold Cup, which offers a “Win and You're In” berth to the GI Breeders' Cup Classic in November at Del Mar, has attracted an all-star list of nominations, including last year's Breeders' Cup Classic-winner Sierra Leone (Gun Runner); GI Stephen Foster-winner Mindframe (Constitution); and multiple Grade I-winner White Abarrio (Race Day).

“This is another example of FOX Sports' commitment to showcasing the best events in horse racing on their biggest platform,” said Tony Allevato, NYRA Chief Revenue Officer. “The Jockey Club Gold Cup could be one of the great races of the year, and we appreciate FOX Sports featuring the race before a national audience.”

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A year ago, trainer Chad Brown thought he had his best chance ever when he ran 'TDN Rising Star' Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) in the $1.25-million GI Travers Stakes. The best he could do as the 8-5 favorite was a third-place finish.

Brown accepted the verdict and vowed that he would keep trying to win the Midsummer Derby, a race he grew up with. The 46-year-old Brown grew up in the shadow of Saratoga Race Course, in nearby Mechanicville, so, of course, the Travers is the race for him.

When the Travers is run for the 156th time on Saturday, Brown will be represented but the expectations aren't nearly as high as they were a year ago. He will send the lightly raced 'TDN Rising Star' Strategic Focus (Gun Runner) to the starting gate for the 1 1/4-mile race.

Owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables Inc., Strategic Focus is the 6-1 third choice on the morning line in the five-horse field. The favorite is the imposing Sovereignty (Into Mischief), who is 2-5.

“I am taking a shot,” Brown said in his office at the Oklahoma Training Track. “I am not going in with any expectations like I am going to win the race, but I am going in with a horse that I think is far better than his last race.”

That last race was the Curlin, where Strategic Focus finished third as the 3-5 favorite behind stablemate and 'TDN Rising Star' Chancer McPatrick (McKinzie), who is running Saturday in the seven-furlong, $500,000 GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes.

At the top of the stretch in the Curlin, it looked like Strategic Focus and jockey Flavien Prat were going to win for fun, but he ended up a half-length behind Chancer McPatrick.

“I believe he pulled himself up last time due to inexperience,” said Brown, who will equip Strategic Focus with blinkers for the Travers. “I believe this horse has a lot of ability. I loved him in the Curlin. I'm not saying he is good enough to compete with Sovereignty, but I am saying there is more there.”

Strategic Focus, a $500,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, did not race as a 2-year-old. He broke his maiden at Aqueduct in April and then won a first-level allowance at Saratoga on June 6 but was disqualified and placed second.

The final decision is in. White Abarrio (Race Day) will stay in Saratoga to run in the $1-million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup on Aug. 31.

White Abarrio Tuesday morning at the Spa | Sarah Andrew

“We want to stay here and take on the best,” trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. said on the soggy Saratoga backstretch Wednesday morning. “And we think he is the best.”

White Abarrio, owned by Gary Barber, C Two Racing Stable and La Milagrosa Stable LLC, was originally being pointed to a trip West, to run in the $1-million GI Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 30.

“When that statement (from co-owner Mark Cornett of C Two Racing) came out, California was the front runner, 100 percent,” Joseph said. “The horse sold us to stay here. The ownership group decided (Tuesday) that he was going to run here.”

Joseph said that White Abarrio, who is scheduled to work Thursday morning, is doing very well and that was one of the reasons the decision was made to stay home. The other was that it is easier to run out of his own stall rather to fly cross country.

White Abarrio finished fourth in the GI Whitney Stakes on Aug. 2. By staying for the Jockey Club Gold Cup, he will be facing the likes of Whitney winner Sierra Leone and 'TDN Rising Star' Mindframe (Constitution), two of the top-ranked older horses in the country.

The Pacific Classic is expected to attract the Bob Baffert-trained 'TDN Rising Star' Nysos (Nyquist), who has won two of three this year, including the GII San Diego Handicap in his last start. Another possible starter is 3-year-old Journalism (Curlin), who won the GI Preakness Stakes and was second in the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes.

Joseph said he will have to get a new rider for White Abarrio. Irad Ortiz, Jr., who has ridden the 6-year-old gray in his last 10 starts, is committed to ride Mindframe in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.

“I have thoughts, but I am going to keep those to myself,” Joseph said.

White Abarrio has two wins in four starts this year, the biggest being the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park on Mar. 29. He has finished fourth in last two starts, the other being the GI Met Mile, also at Saratoga, on June 7.

“The horse is giving me the right signs,” Joseph said. “We feel like he is going to run his best (in the Jockey Club Gold Cup). Is his best going to be good enough? You never know. Another horse might run a better best.”

The ultimate goal for White Abarrio is the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 2, a race he won at Santa Anita in 2023. Joseph said that sometime after the Jockey Club Gold Cup, he will send White Abarrio back to his home base in Florida and ship to California from there.

The first two starts of the year would not instill confidence to anyone who is a fan of the 4-year-old filly Brightwork (Outwork).

But those two races weren't at Saratoga. The next one is.

Brightwork in one of her recent Saratoga works | Sarah Andrew

Brightwork, trained by John Ortiz, loves it at the Spa. She has won all three of her starts at Saratoga, all of them graded stakes, including the GI Spinaway when she was a 2-year-old. Last year, she won the GIII Prioress here.

She will try to keep her perfect Saratoga record intact when she runs in the $500,000 GI Ballerina at seven furlongs.

“I don't know, but she usually blossoms here,” Ortiz said Wednesday morning at his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. “Whether it's the Saratoga air or the track or the track kitchen sitting next to our barn … she just has really sparked since we got here. It has shown up in all her workouts.”

Brightwork has had five works since arriving in Saratoga in mid-July.

“We had no plans on running her in the Ballerina,” Ortiz said. “What we were initially trying to do was to train her and get her back to her old self. She has gained a ton of weight, and she is brighter and sharper than she was in Kentucky.”

In her first two starts this year, she was fourth in the GIII Winning Colors and eighth in the GII Chicago, both at Churchill Downs.

The Winning Colors was her first start since October.

“We tried to make the Winning Colors right off the farm,” Ortiz said. “I think sometimes you are chasing a spot more than getting a horse ready for the right race. We were burning up too many calories to catch up to her fitness and it showed. She was just not happy. Now, she is back to herself. She is happy and, honestly, there is nothing better than running a happy horse.”

Brightwork, owned by WSS Racing, is 15-1 on the Ballerina morning line. She will be ridden by Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez for the first time.

“I think she will be,” Ortiz said when asked if he thought Brightwork would be overlooked, “but she always has been. Look at all her races. She has never really been the favorite when she has won and that's okay. It's not about favoritism or numbers. It's about knowing your horse and when to run her.”

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6th-Saratoga, $90,000, (S), Msw, 8-20, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f (off turf), 1:04.58, sy, 3 lengths.
CELTIC DAWN (f, 2, Honest Mischief–Tapa Liath, by Paddy O'Prado) was meant for the grass here but wound up rained off onto a sloppy main track for her debut facing fellow New York-breds. Caught inside from her rail gate, the 6-1 shot had to work to get position and was shuffled back while in tight at the half-mile pole. Fanned out from fourth to bid wide into the stretch, she had plenty of late run left and closed nicely to take over from late leader Midtown Mischief (Honest Mischief) and win by three lengths with Hot Currency (Central Banker) getting home second. Following the race, Celtic Dawn returned to the winner's circle lame in the left front and was vanned off to Rood & Riddle for further examination according to a release from NYRA. A social media post from trainer Carlos Martin revealed his filly has suffered a pastern facture and would have surgery. Tapa Liath has not reported a foal since Celtic Dawn in 2023 but was sent back to Honest Mischief for a full-sibling in 2026. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $49,500. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O/B-Blue Devil Racing Stable (NY); T-Carlos F. Martin.

thank all the nyra staff and vets for their care and handling of our beautiful filly Celtic dawn thankfully rood and riddle one of the best clinics in the works down the street from Saratoga racecourse ! After x-rays a pastern fracture was discovered surgery will be performed…

— Carlos martin (@TrainerCMartin) August 20, 2025

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Apprentice jockeys are not supposed to win stakes races, let alone a $1-million race that is among the most coveted prizes in Canadian racing. But that's exactly what 20-year-old Pietro Moran, who has been dubbed “The Baby-Faced Bandit,” did last week, winning the King's Plate at Woodbine aboard the Kevin Attard-trained Mansetti (Collected). Moran, who is also the leading rider at Woodbine, has had quite the year. To discuss the King's Plate, his future, what it's like to ride against his father, David Moran, and other topics, Moran joined this week's TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. He was this week's Gainesway Guest of the Week.

“I never would have thought that I'd get a King's Plate opportunity my first full year,” said Moran, who finished fourth in the 2024 King's Plate aboard Pierre (Tapiture) for Attard. “Im just so thankful for the opportunity. Obviously, Kevin Attard has been a huge supporter of my career and he got me started. And he's given me countless opportunities. My first ride in the Plate was a big opportunity and now I've had my first King's Plate winner in just my second year. I wouldn't be here without (Attard). I still can't believe it. To win the biggest race in Canada…I'm just still flying high.”

Moran said there was never a time when he didn't want to be a jockey.

“I think that even before I could walk or talk I wanted to be a jockey,” Moran said. “I always wanted to ride horses and be a jockey and I could never see myself doing anything else. I was always just so into the game and watching my dad ride. I was always working towards getting to ride races and slowly it became a reality.”

Moran is a lock to be named champion apprentice in Canada and the favorite to win the Eclipse Award as the leading apprentice in North America. He's hoping there will be many more accolades to come.

“I would love to be somewhere in the States,” he said when asked where he hoped to be in five years. “Obviously, my dream is to be able to ride in all the big races, the graded stakes. I'd like to be able to get on really good horses every year and ride in races like the Derby and the Breeders' Cup. That's the goal.”

The “Fastest Horse of the Week” was She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}, who got a 104 Beyer figure when winning the GI E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine. The Fastest Horse of the Week segment is sponsored by WinStar.

Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by 1/ST TV,  the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association, the KTOB and XBTV.com, the team of Zoe Cadman, Bill Finley and Randy Moss reviewed the E.P. Taylor and the win by Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro) in the GI Alabama Stakes at Saratoga, which pushed her to the head of the class when it comes to the Eclipse Award race. Saturday's card at Saratoga, which is topped by the GI Travers and four other Grade I stakes, was a major topic of conversation. Can they beat Sovereignty (Into Mischief) in the Travers? The team doesn't see that happening.

Click for the either the audio or video version of the podcast.

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Every week, the TDN posts a roundup of the relevant Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) related rulings from around the country.

The following rulings were reported on HISA's “rulings” portal and through the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit's (HIWU) “pending” and “resolved” cases portals.

Resolved ADMC Violations

Date: 08/18/2025

Licensee: Anna Meah, trainer

Penalty: A written Reprimand (per 9/26/23 HISA Guidance). Admission.

Explainer: Vets' list medication violation for the presence of Omeprazole (Gastrogard)—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Trouble Ahead on 7/9/25.

Date: 08/15/2025

Licensee: Agustin Gonzalez Jr., trainer

Penalty: 7-day period of Ineligibility for Covered Person, beginning on August 16, 2025; Disqualification of Covered Horses' Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $1,000; imposition of 2 Penalty Points. The following treated as one violation. Admission.

Explainer: Medication violations for the presence of Lidocaine—a Class B controlled substance—in samples taken from C V Ronin Legacy, who finished second at Horseshoe Indianapolis on 6/19/25; from Skippinjustice, who finished second at Horseshoe Indianapolis on 6/24/25; and from Money War, who finished second in the William Garrett H. at Horseshoe Indianapolis on 7/4/25.

Date: 08/15/2025

Licensee: Timothy Murphy, trainer

Penalty: Disqualification of Covered Horses' Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $1,000 ($500 for each Controlled Medication Substance); imposition of 3 Penalty Points (1.5 Penalty Points for each Controlled Medication Substance). The following treated as one violation. Admission.

Explainer: Medication violations for the presence of Phenylbutazone and Methocarbamol—both Class C controlled substances—in a sample taken from More Vino, who finished second at Finger Lakes on 5/12/25; and for the presence of Methocarbamol—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Tacony Road, who won the George W. Barker Stakes at Finger Lakes on 5/26/25.

Date: 08/15/2025

Licensee: Timothy Murphy, trainer

Penalty: 7-day period of Ineligibility for Covered Person, beginning on August 16, 2025; Disqualification of Covered Horse's Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $1,000; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Admission.

Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Phenylbutazone—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Lookin' Super, who finished fourth at Finger Lakes on 6/9/25.

Pending ADMC Violations

08/20/2025, Michael Sabine, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Methocarbamol—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Flattery's Music, who finished second at Finger Lakes on 7/22/25.

08/20/2025, Kay Cooper, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Phenylbutazone—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Precise Timing, who won the Kent Stakes at Emerald Downs on 7/20/25.

08/20/2025, Jose Roberto Gonzalez, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Testosterone—a banned substance—in a sample taken from Ol' McClintock, who finished third at Horseshoe Indianapolis on 4/22/25.

08/15/2025, Tomas Medina, trainer: Pending medication violation for the use or attempted use of a Class C controlled substance on Night Kiss during the race period dated 7/5/25. Night Kiss did not make a start that day.

08/15/2025, Sergio Morfin, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Methocarbamol—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Lady Dosia, who finished sixth at Santa Anita on 6/12/25.

08/15/2025, William Robert Bailes, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Dexamethasone—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Next Girl, who finished second at Laurel Park on 6/6/25.

08/14/2025, Ilias Tapsas, trainer: Pending vets' list medication violation for the presence of Acepromazine—a Class B controlled substance—in a sample taken from Modern Midas on 7/7/25.

08/14/2025, Jesus Nunez, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Phenylbutazone—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Erebus, who finished second at Los Alamitos on 7/6/25.

08/14/2025, Steve Asmussen, trainer: Pending vets' list medication violation for the presence of Omeprazole (Gastrogard)—a Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Jackman on 6/20/25.

08/14/2025, Tianna Richardville, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Methamphetamine—a banned substance—in a sample taken from R Guy Max, who finished third at Horseshoe Indianapolis on 5/15/25.

Violations of Crop Rule

Horseshoe Indianapolis

Marcelino Pedroza – violation date August 14; $250 fine, one-day suspension

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The Major Reduction of Harris Farms closed Tuesday afternoon with 75 horses sold for $1,045,000. The sale offered horses of racing age and broodmares, including those with foals at foot.

Nu Pi Lambda (hip 50), in foal to Liam's Map, sold for $200,000 to Hinkle Farms to top the session. The winning City Zip mare is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and course record setter Deterministic (Liam's Map). She was offered carrying her first foal on that proven cross.

The sale led off on a high note, with Happy to Buy (hip 1) sold for $75,000 to Legacy Ranch Inc. A two-year-old daughter of Good Magic out of the winning Distorted Humor mare I'mnotshyi'llbuy, Happy to Buy entered the sale off a pair of timed works at Del Mar.

“It's bittersweet to offer a reduction of a farm that's a household name,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton's Director of Digital Sales. “But California really stepped up with almost 600 bidder registrations and very lively bidding. I think many involved wanted to own a piece of the legacy that is Harris Farms. We appreciate the opportunity to conduct this major reduction.”

“We are very pleased overall and would like to thank Fasig-Tipton for their help,” said Johnny Hilvers, General Manager of the Harris Horse Division. “There was a lot of interest in these offerings, and we look forward to seeing these horses continue on for all their new owners.”

The Major Reduction of Harris Farms, the Thoroughbred operation of leading California breeder and owner John C. Harris, was announced August 6 and opened for bidding on August 14. Harris, who recently passed away at the age of 81, led one of California's largest and most prominent breeding, racing, and stallion operations for more than four decades.

Harris Farms will continue to race and breed Thoroughbreds going forward.

“Harris Farms remains committed to racing in the Harris Farms silks and honoring the legacy of John Harris, albeit at a reduced number with a focus on high quality California-breds,” commented Darren Filkins, Chief Executive Officer of Harris Farms, Inc.

Full results are available online.

The next digital sale will be the August Digital Sale, to be held August 21-26. Bidding opens this Thursday at 12 PM ET.

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5. READY FOR CANDY, SAR, 8/17, 1 1/8 miles (turf) (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure-86
(f, 3, by Twirling Candy–Enoree, by More Than Ready)
O-Lindy Farms. B-Mark Dodson (Ont-C). T-Philip Antonacci. J-Irad Ortiz Jr.
The Antonacci family is legendary in harness racing, but has had success with thoroughbreds, too, and February $400k Fasig Tipton buy Ready for Candy made a splash at Saratoga in her 3-year-old debut. Now trained by young Phil Antonacci, she controlled the pace to the stretch then zipped away by 7 ¾ lengths. For her previous connections, she competed in five straight Woodbine stakes as a 2-year-old maiden, with two 2nds and a 3rd.

4. EXPLORA, DMR, 8/17, 5 1/2 furlongs, 'TDN Rising Star' (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure- 88
(f, 2, by Blame–Collections Choice, by Bernardini)
O-Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman. B-Mesingw Farm (Ky). T-Bob Baffert. J-Juan Hernandez.
This will surprise no one but still bears mentioning: Baffert has started 2-year-olds in 12 maiden races thus far in 2025 with eight wins, including four 1-2 finishes. A week earlier, 1/5 Sorrento Stakes winner Himika looked like a legit early favorite for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but Explora also ran fast and couldn't have taken her debut more easily for the “Three Amigos” ownership group.

3. BELGIAN, SAR, 8/14, 5 1/2 furlongs (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure- 90
(c, 2, by Beau Liam–Watch Smartly, by Smart Strike)
O-Newtown Anner Stud Farm. B-Springhouse Farm (Ky). T-George Weaver. J-Javier Castellano.
Belgian is from the first crop of former Stonestreet runner Beau Liam, standing at Airdrie Stud for $6k after a promising career cut short by injury. Watch Smartly was a mediocre racehorse whose foals had gotten mostly mediocre results. But Belgian's debut was hardly mediocre: an 11-length sloppy off-the-turf Spa romp. Before this, Beau Liam's 32 starters had topped out at 67 on the Beyer scale, but Belgian raised that bar considerably.

2. IT'S OUR TIME, SAR, 8/16, 6 1/2 furlongs, 'TDN Rising Star' (VIDEO)
Beyer Speed Figure- 94
(c, 2, by Not This Time–Shea D Summer, by Summer Front)
O-Double Down Horse Racing. B-South Gate Farm (Va). T-Tom Amoss. J-Luis Saez.
Amoss has celebrated big wins at Saratoga previously–Heritage of Gold won the GII Diana and GI Go For Wand in 1999-2000, a decade later Backtalk won the GII Sanford, and Serengeti Empress took the GI Ballerina before an empty grandstand in 2020. This was memorable in a different way: no fancy trophy and no Roman numerals, but instead a jaw-dropping 17 3/4 length debut victory by It's Our Time that went viral in racing circles and puts him high on lists for major fall 2-year-old stakes.

1. SEMPER PRIMUS, ELP, 8/17, 6 furlongs
Beyer Speed Figure- 100
(c, 3, by Improbable–Inaugurate, by Empire Maker)
O-Doubledown Stables. B-Glen Hill Farm (Ky). T-James DiVito. J-Walter Rodriguez.
We have a double down exacta!  No. 2 fastest maiden It's Our Time (above) belongs to Elza and Alex Mitchum, a father-son combo billed as Double Down Horse Racing – not to be confused with Doubledown Stables of Richard and Diane Templer, whose Semper Primus is our No. 1 fastest maiden of last week. His 8 1/4-length rout of Ellis Park maidens earned the second-highest Beyer since Five Fastest Maidens began in early May, a tick behind Brant's 101 last month at Del Mar. In three starts over three months, Semper Primus' has improved his Beyers from 52 to 85 to 100, a true doubledown.

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Having previously done all of her racing in New York, Dry Powder shipped down to Parx to pick up her first stakes win in Tuesday's Cathryn Sophia Stakes. A head behind Sweet Seraphine (Quality Road) in the Wilton Stakes two back at Aqueduct, she stepped into the deep end and wound up third, albeit the length of the stretch back, in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks behind Scottish Lassie (McKinzie) at Saratoga July 19.

Given a 7-1 shot here, the daughter of Gun Runner showed speed but was outrun to her inside by Taliesin (Vekoma) and Fede (Adios Charlie) who shot out to lead. A comfortable third and clear along the outside, Dry Powder sat cozy into the far turn through the half in :46.78, took aim at the fading pacesetter and drove past to win decisively over closers Ourdaydreaminggirl and Disco Rules who both outran their long odds (18-1 and 16-1 respectively) to complete the trifecta.

The 44th stakes winner for Gun Runner, Dry Powder was a $525,000 KEESEP grad two years ago. She is out of Tell All, who sold for $240,000 with the winner in utero at the Pin Oak Stud Sale in 2021. Tell All herself is a half to MGSW Overheard (Macho Uno). And while she lost her 2025 Uncle Mo foal, she is due back next season to Horse of the Year Flightline.

#11 DRY POWDER ($17.00) got the lead coming to the stretch and pulled away to easily win the $200,000 Cathryn Sophia Stakes at Parx. The daughter of Gun Runner (@Three_Chimneys) was ridden by @luissaezpty, is trained by Chad Summers, and owned by Gold Square. pic.twitter.com/NGmEifnUXG

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) August 19, 2025

CATHRYN SOPHIA S., $200,000, Parx Racing, 8-19, 3yo, f, 1m 70y, 1:40.59, ft.
1–DRY POWDER, 121, f, 3, by Gun Runner
          1st Dam: Tell All, by Broken Vow
          2nd Dam: Whisper to Me, by Thunder Gulch
          3rd Dam: Word to the Wise, by Diesis (GB)
($525,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Gold
Square LLC; B-Corser Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Chad
Summers; J-Luis Saez. $100,800. Lifetime Record: GISP,
5-2-2-1, $245,400.
2–Ourdaydreaminggirl, 121, f, 3, Instagrand–Itsinthestars,
by Astrology. ($50,000 Ylg '23 FTKOCT; $50,000 2yo '24
OBSAPR). O-Bran Jam Stable and Clark, David W.; B-Pippa's
Hurricane (KY); T-Louis C. Linder, Jr. $33,600.
3–Disco Rules, 121, f, 3, Constitution–Disco Barbie, by Pure
Prize. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Diane Louise Manning (PA);
T-Riley Mott. $16,800.
Margins: 4 1/4, 1 3/4, HF. Odds: 7.50, 18.00, 16.90.
Also Ran: Taliesin, Sweet Seraphine, Table Flirt, Pretty Sassy, Fede, Five a Side, Decadent, Ruth, Brown Sugar, Reply. Scratched: Princess of Omaha, Volleyballprincess. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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Graded winner Magnitude (Not This Time) prepped for Saturday's GI Travers Stakes with a half-mile breeze over the Oklahoma dirt training track Sunday morning.

Clocked in :50.22 (31/49) while working through a blanket of fog, the Steve Asmussen charge has been training up to the feature race this weekend after producing a 9 1/4-length masterclass last out July 5 in the Listed Iowa Derby. The son of Not This Time missed the Triple Crown series with an ankle chip, but has been moving forwardly since his return to the races last month.

“He worked good,” said Scott Blasi, assistant trainer to Asmussen on-site for the work. “They [the instructions] were just to go a half-mile. We feel like he's really fit. We were just letting him stretch his legs over the track and he's doing well.”

The Asmussen and Winchell Thoroughbreds combination is no stranger to winning the Travers as they last took home the spoils in 2022 with MGISW Epicenter, coincidentally also by Not This Time.

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1st-Saratoga, $100,000, Msw, 8-17, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT, 1:48.60, fm, 7 3/4 lengths.
READY FOR CANDY (f, 3, Twirling Candy–Enoree {SP}, by More Than Ready), who began her career as a juvenile in the care of trainer Michael DePaulo, was the runner-up last summer in the Catch A Glimpse Stakes at Woodbine. The filly's campaign ended in November when she was third in the GIII Mazarine Stakes and finished second in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes–both in Toronto.

Making the switch to Philip Antonacci's shedrow, the dark bay made her seasonal bow as the even-money favorite here. The chalk was keen from the bell and established her lead heading into the first turn. Controlling the pace throughout, Ready for Candy hit the accelerator down the lane and won convincingly to break her maiden by 7 3/4 lengths over Inesperee (Flintshire {GB}). The winner's dam is responsible for several runners currently in-training, including 5-year-old gelding Tiburon (Good Magic), 4-year-old filly Bolt Enoree (Bolt d'Oro) and 2-year-old colt Mister Blue (Maclean's Music).

Enoree was bred to Essential Quality for next term. Out of an extended female family which includes Canadian champion 3-year-old colt Woodcarver (Woodman), Ready for Candy's second dam is Canadian MSW Woodsmoke (Langfuhr) who produced GSW Grand Bili (City Zip). Sales History: $70,000 RNA Ylg '23 KEESEP; $62,000 Ylg '23 FTKOCT; $60,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR; $400,000 3yo '25 FTKFEB. Lifetime Record: GSP-Can, 8-1-3-2, $162,171. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-Lindy Farms; B-Mark Dodson (ON); T-Philip Antonacci.

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The right-hand man to Christophe Clement for nearly three decades, assistant trainer Christophe Lorieul will be presented with the inaugural D. Wayne Lukas award, the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association (NYTHA) announced Saturday.

Created this year and to be given annually, the D. Wayne Lukas Award is presented to a New York-based assistant trainer who demonstrates qualities that the late Hall of Famer himself exemplified–dedication, a strong work ethic, and a high commitment to excellence. In addition to a trophy, the winner will receive a $10,000 award. The presentation will be held Monday, Sept. 1 on the closing day of the Saratoga meet.

Lorieul, a native of Normandy, France, has been part of the Clement organization since 1994, and is now assistant trainer to Miguel Clement.

“I worked with Christophe over half, maybe two-thirds of my life,” Lorieul reflected. “Everything that I know is because of him; I wasn't even 20 when I started working for him. I could come to him about anything and learned many life lessons. I learned a lot and had many opportunities to travel, to Japan, Dubai, Hong Kong. He always said, 'be patient with the horses. Take care of them, and they will take care of you.'

“It has been a rough year for us and we are just trying to continue his legacy. We are lucky enough to have good horses in our stalls. Miguel is doing a great job and I'm just trying to assist him the best I can, the same as I did with Christophe. Miguel had mentioned to me that I would be nominated, and I'm very thankful.”

Miguel, who credits Lorieul with teaching him to understand the Daily Racing Form as a child, is now at the helm of Clement Racing. Lorieul supervises the Belmont string, as is his custom.

“He is the backbone of our stable,” said Miguel Clement. “He is amazingly reliable, talented, and devoted to his profession. We are all very lucky to have him, especially when it was so tough, and he really stepped up when we needed him the most.”

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6th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 8-15, 2yo, f, 5f, :59.51, ft, 9 3/4 lengths.
EPIGRAM (f, 2, Code of Honor–Rockin, by Hard Spun) ran her rivals off their feet to become her late freshman sire's third winner at 7-2 odds. Breaking in at the start but recovering well to lead the pack, they were never given a second opinion as she put up an opening quarter in :22.95 and was on a clear advantage entering the stretch. From there it was how much she wanted to win by and the answer was 9 3/4 lengths over Authentic Wave (Authentic).

The victress is the most recent to the races for Rockin, who now has four offspring to get a picture taken from as many to the track. The mare claims a 2025 filly by Zandon and went to Charge It for 2026. Sales history: $7,000 Ylg '24 FTKOCT; $38,000 2yo '25 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $24,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-JC Racing Stable (Jose Castro); B-Mercedes Stables LLC (KY); T-Jose M. Castro.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY — She would have been the likely favorite in next Saturday's $500,000 GI Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. But that point is moot now.

'TDN Rising Star' Ways and Means (Practical Joke) won't run.

Trainer Chad Brown delivered the news Thursday morning at his barn on the Oklahoma Training Track.

“Unfortunately, she got sick,” Brown said, sitting at his desk in his office. “She's sick, she's not running. Next question. There is nothing to talk about. She's going to miss the race.”

Brown was forced to miss a work last week with Ways and Means after she spiked a temperature.

Brown's glumness over the situation is understandable. Ways and Means, who is owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables, has done some of her best work at Saratoga.

She has won four of five career starts at Saratoga, including last year's GI Test Stakes and her latest start, the GII Bed of Roses Stakes on June 6.

Both of those races came at seven furlongs, the same distance as the Ballerina.

Ways and Means has earned $997,500 in her career and $618,250 has come in her Saratoga starts.

The only time Ways and Means got beat at Saratoga was in last year's GI Spinaway Stakes when she was defeated by Brightwork (Outwork) by a half-length. Brightwork is expected to run in the Ballerina.

In her 10 race-career, Ways and Means has five wins, two seconds and a third. She has gone off the favorite in nine of those starts. The only time she was not the favorite was in last year's GI Kentucky Oaks when she went off at nearly 6-1.

She finished fourth in that race.

Despite this setback, Brown will be busy enough on Travers Day.

He is pointing 'TDN Rising Star' Strategic Focus (Gun Runner) to the $1.25-million GI Travers Stakes. He finished third in his last start, the Curlin Stakes, as the 3-5 favorite. He is also owned by Klaravich.

'Rising Star' Chancer McPatrick (McKinzie), who won the Curlin at 4-1 odds for Flanagan Racing, is being targeted to the $500,000 GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes at seven furlongs.

Brown has two 5-year-old mares being pointed to the $500,000 GI Personal Ensign Stakes at 1 1/8 miles. Raging Sea (Curlin), the beaten favorite in the GII Shuvee Stakes at Saratoga on July 18 and Randomized (Nyquist), winner of the GIII Molly Pitcher at Monmouth on July 19, will represent his barn.

Raging Sea is owned by Alpha Delta Stables LLC and Klaravich owns Randomized. Both of those horses have won three races at Saratoga. Raging Sea won the Personal Ensign last year and Randomized finished fourth.

If the sun had shone brightly all day on Belmont Stakes Day back in June, chances are we would not be seeing Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro) in Saturday's $600,000 GI Alabama Stakes at Saratoga.

“Probably not,” dual Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse said outside his barn on the Saratoga backstretch.

When the rains came on Belmont Day, it washed the GIII Wonder Again Stakes off the turf and Nitrogen ran a mile on a sloppy track, winning by a whopping 17 lengths over two overmatched rivals.

It gave Casse an idea that maybe his talented 3-year-old filly, owned by D J Stable Inc., might have a future on dirt. Casse kept that in mind, even when Nitrogen's next start was back on the grass in the GI Belmont Oaks Invitational on July 5. She was second that day, beaten a nose by Fionn (Twirling Candy).

Had she not excelled in the off-the-turf Wonder Again, or if the race had stayed on the grass, she most likely would have run in the GI Saratoga Oaks Invitational last weekend.

Nitrogen | Sarah Andrew

But here she is and Nitrogen is the 9-5 second choice on the Alabama morning line set by NYRA oddsmaker David Aragona. Champion Good Cheer (Medaglia d'Oro), who had her seven-race winning streak snapped when she finished fifth in the GI Acorn Stakes to La Cara (Street Sense) on June 6, is the 8-5 morning-line favorite.

La Cara is also trained by Casse. She is further along than her stablemate in terms of the 3-year-old filly division as La Cara has a pair of GI wins on the dirt this year: the Acorn and the Ashland Stakes.

If Nitrogen makes some noise in the Alabama, it would be her first Grade I on dirt; overall this year she has five wins in six starts.

“I honestly think it's a no-brainer,” Casse said or running Nitrogen on the dirt. “We want to be champion 3-year-old filly and, to do that, we need to win a big one on the dirt. There are not many bigger than this one.”

Casse knows the Wonder Again could be viewed as the sloppy track and inferior competition, but he was more impressed with how fast she ran and how impressive she looked.

He has also liked the way she has worked for the Alabama–the last two breezes have been on dirt.

“I don't think there is any doubt she likes the dirt,” Casse said. “If she wins the Alabama, it puts her in a whole different atmosphere, a different league for everything.”

In his first start, 2-year-old colt Bobrovsky (Daredevil) got beat by a nose at Churchill Downs going five furlongs on June 22.

A month later, he rolled, breaking his maiden by 10 1/2 lengths in a six-furlong race at Saratoga.

Both those races were on the dirt.

Start number three comes Saturday in the $150,000 Skidmore Stakes. Here is the rub. This race will be run on the Mellon Turf Course at 5 1/2 furlongs. Bobrovsky has never set foot on it.

Dale Romans trains the colt, who is named for Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. He co-owns him along with Steve Berg.

Bobrovsky | Sarah Andrew

“He is a very good horse,” Romans said outside his barn, sitting in a golf cart with Berg. “The question is will he like the grass?”

Berg and Romans are friends and the idea to name the horse after the Stanley Cup-winning goaltender came easily enough. Berg's full-time residence is in Florida and Romans spends the winter there.

They have both become fans of the Panthers, partly because owner Vinnie Viola also owns horses.

“I've been to a lot of games … one game every playoff series last year,” Berg said.

Neither Romans or Berg knows whether or not Bobrovsky the skater knows about Bobrovsky the horse.

“Let him win a couple more times,” Berg said about the horse, “then (Bobrovsky the hockey player) will know all about him.”

Bobrovsky is listed as 6-1 on the morning line in the eight-horse Skidmore.

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Now inside the three-month mark until the start of the upcoming 102-date meet, management at Turf Paradise is checking off projects on its list of off-season improvements prior to the arrival of horses in October for the Nov. 10-May 2 season.

Turf Paradise general manager Vincent Francia said at Thursday's Arizona Racing Commission (AZRC) meeting that Sept. 16 is the target date for the beginning of the annual main-track renovation.

“It may take anywhere from 10 days to two weeks because we take all the old dirt off and then put the new dirt down to get ready for the horses to come in in the beginning of October,” Francia said.

“And prior to them coming in, there will be a representative from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) to come out and look over all the work that's been done on the main track and to give us approval to be open for training,” Francia said.

Francia also said Turf Paradise will be shoring up structural aspects of the property based on recommendations from an outside engineering firm's recent report. A focal point will be 10 barns on the backside that have not been significantly overhauled since they were built in 1955.

Brian Duncan, the AZRC's racing enforcement and operations manager, said he visited the track Aug. 12 and will be there again Aug. 15 to check on progress of the work that is already underway.

“I did look at the main rail and the quarter chute,” Duncan said. “They are complete with the exception of just being painted now. The three-quarters chute still needs everything–panels put down, all the caulking and painting as well. I did not check the turf rails. They were watering and cutting it, so I will be checking that [Friday] when I do this as well. I did visit the paddock stalls. The ceiling is complete–painted, redone.”

Duncan said he did not personally see the updated sauna in the jockeys' quarters, but that track management had provided him with photographs showing its completion.

Francia said the work on the rails will be finished in the following order: inner rail on the main track, outer rail on the main track, then the outer rail on the turf course.

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Renovations to the E.P. Taylor Turf Course at Woodbine will begin the week of Aug. 18, 2025. The project will restore a five-furlong section of the backstretch run and install a modern drainage system and new Kentucky Bluegrass. For the remainder of the season until the completion of the project in September 2026, turf racing will be conducted on the bet365 Inner Turf Course.

“The E.P. Taylor Turf Course has played host to some of the most memorable moments in Canadian racing, and this renovation ensures it remains one of the finest turf courses in the world,” said Michael Copeland, CEO, Woodbine Entertainment. “This project is about more than infrastructure–it reflects our long-term commitment to delivering a world-class racing experience for our horses and riders, horseplayers and fans, and the entire racing community.”

The fall turf stakes traditionally contested over the E.P. Taylor will be relocated to the inner turf, including the GI Woodbine Mile, the GI Summer Stakes and GI Natalma Stakes all at a two-turn mile on Sept. 13. The Breeders' Stakes on Sept. 28 and the GI Canadian International on Oct. 4 will also be run over the inner turf course. The latter two events will be held over their traditional mile-and-a-half distances, but will be three-turn races instead of two.

To support the project timeline, post times at Woodbine will be adjusted beginning the week of Aug. 18. Thursday post time will shift from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., while Friday's first race will be moved to 4:30 p.m. from 1:05 p.m. Saturday and Sunday post times remain unchanged.

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The sixth installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held Aug. 12 and covered buying horses at sales and on digital platforms, according to a press release on Thursday from the series.

Guests included Leif Aaron, director of digital sales, Fasig-Tipton; Conrad Bandoroff, vice president of Denali Stud; Cormac Breathnach, director of sales operations, Keeneland; and Jon Green, owner of D.J. Stable LLC.

Hosted by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and presented by Bessemer Trust, Keeneland, and Stoll Keenon Ogden, the panel was sponsored by Centennial Farms and Walmac Farm. The Q&A portion of the event was sponsored by West Point Thoroughbreds.

Click here to access the webinar.

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Amy Gregory, a prominent member of the Keeneland team for nearly two decades, will receive the Jane Goldstein Exemplary Leadership Award at the Horse Racing Women's Association's fourth annual Conference, Oct. 8-9, in Lexington, Kentucky, according to a press release from the organization on Thursday.

Within her 45-year career in the Thoroughbred industry, Gregory joined Keeneland as media relations manager in 2006 and was named director of communications in 2013. Earlier this summer, Gregory retired from her role, though she will continue to provide communications support to Keeneland and consult on special projects for the company.

“I am incredibly honored and humbled to receive the Jane Goldstein Leadership Award,” said Gregory. “I am so grateful to the Horse Racing Women's Association for this very special recognition, and thankful for its continuing work to engage and inspire women in racing.”

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