The $1 million NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes July 19 is the marquee race at Monmouth Park and drew a strong cast of runners expected to compete in the 1 1/8-mile Grade 1 stakes for 3-year-olds.
The fields for the 14 races that comprise the Breeders’ Cup World Championships really begin to come into focus in summer and fall. This regular feature will offer a snapshot profile of one of the previous weekend’s standout stars, usually a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series winner, and assess their chances to win Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, whose life included many different chapters – nearly all of which shaped today’s racing – died June 28 in Louisville, Ky. He was 89.
Thorpedo Anna put to rest any lingering doubts about her talents as a 4-year-old by thundering to her seventh stakes score in the $498,500 Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Fleur de Lis Stakes June 28 at Churchill Downs.
Mindframe pressed a slow early pace then proved best in the lane to defeat a star-studded field in the $940,000 Stephen Foster Stakes going 1 1/8 miles at Churchill Downs June 28.
