El Cordobes split horses in deep stretch and prevailed in a dramatic finish to capture the $750,000 Grade 1 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer Stakes Aug. 9 at Saratoga Race Course.
Fort Washington outkicked Grand Sonata, Integration, and Mystik Dan in the stretch to score the biggest win of his career in the Grade 1 Arlington Million Stakes
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.
The racing spotlight in North America will point north to Woodbine at 5:34 p.m. ET Aug. 16 for the $1 million King’s Plate, the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown as well as that country’s oldest Thoroughbred horse race.
Founded in 1860, the King’s Plate is the oldest continuously run race in North America.
Last Saturday at Saratoga featured four Grade 1 stakes worth a combined $3 million in purse money. Two of those – the Whitney Stakes and FanDuel Fourstardave Stakes – were Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” races.
