Stakes Preview: Sands Point and Floral Park
Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Grade 2 Sands Point and the Floral Park from Belmont at the Big A.
Andy Serling & Sara Elbadwi look ahead at the Grade 2 Sands Point and the Floral Park from Belmont at the Big A.
The son of Justify landed the Superlative Stakes (G2) by 6 1/2 lengths last out in July.
A field of seven 2-year-old New York-breds representing some of the top stables in the country are set to face off in the 61st running of the $161,547 New York Breeders' Futurity Oct. 16 at Finger Lakes.
A Dubawi full brother to world champion and exciting first-crop yearling sire Ghaiyyath is among the highlights of the Goffs November Foal Sale catalog.
The growing popularity of Darley's up-and-coming sires has been one of the running themes throughout sales season, and that trend was in evidence again at Tattersalls on Oct. 13.
Flameaway is a top five freshman sire by earnings and co-leader by number of stakes winners. His fee could change following the Breeders' Cup where his daughter Dreamfyre is expected to compete in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T).
The return of jockey Tyler Baze from a near-fatal health scare this spring was made complete Oct. 9 at Santa Anita Park when the veteran reinsman won his first race in nearly six months.
On Oct. 13 at Keeneland, British trainer Charlie Appleby and Godolphin tacked on another graded victory when Bold Act knifed through the field down the stretch under Jamie Spencer to defeat older horses in the $269,213 Sycamore Stakes (G3T).
Granpollo Stables' Grand Mo the First will be pre-entered in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) Nov. 3 at Santa Anita Park following the son of Uncle Mo's late-closing third in the Oct. 8 Zuma Beach Stakes (G3T)…