Rebounding from a pair of losses to begin his 4-year-old campaign, reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty closed from the back of the pack to wallop the opposition in the $1 million Grade 1 Whitney Stakes Aug. 8 at Saratoga Race Course.
For the 10th year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2026 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2026 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big-Race Showdown.”
The quest for perfection in professional sports is fraught with peril. An elite pitcher can be absolutely flawless for eight innings and lose a perfect game if he misses his spot by an inch and allows a bloop single, or an NFL team like the New England Patriots in 2007 can win every game in the regular season and breeze into the Super Bowl only to lose the big game in a monumental upset.
Saturday is Whitney Stakes day at Saratoga Race Course. The main event is one of 14 races on a massive afternoon of racing in upstate New York, and the program is one of the best assembled anywhere in the country to this point in the year.
The $1 million Whitney Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series race for the Longines Classic, drew a star-studded field of eight with $32,792,424 in combined lifetime earnings.
