Saturday’s Grade 2 San Diego Handicap is a key summer race in the older male division and the local prep race for Del Mar’s signature race, the $1 million FanDuel Pacific Classic Stakes on Aug. 30.
There was excitement and uncertainty entering the inaugural Breeders’ Cup in 1984, but the initial championship had exceeded the hype even before it came to an unforgettable conclusion when three tenacious racehorses rumbled toward the Breeders’ Cup Classic finish line unwilling to give an inch.
In front of a crowd of 41,876 Saturday at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., Journalism powered home to take the NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes for trainer Michael McCarthy with
Three-year-old colt Sandman, who has built up a following of millions through his popularity on social media, returns to compete in one of the biggest races of the summer Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in New York.
The $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes Presented by Mohegan Sun July 26 at Saratoga Race Course is the key local prep race for the DraftKings Travers Stakes, the famed “Mid-Summer Derby” in August at the Spa.
