(Edited De Mar Thoroughbred Club report)

DEL MAR, Calif. – Benefitting from a perfect trip fashioned by jockey David Flores, longshot Blue Chagall charged to the lead in the upper stretch and went on to win the featured $80,300 Wickerr Stakes in convincing style Wednesday.

Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Perfect Shirl got a perfect trip in Wednesday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Lake George at Saratoga Race Course, posting a 9-1 upset in the field of 12 to earn her first graded stakes victory.

ALLYBAR, SUMMIT SURGE AMONG OTHER EUROPEANS EXPECTED

Graham Ross
Arlington Park

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Kirsten Rausing’s Lady Jane Digby, a 5-year-old mare who drew clear late for a one-length score against male rivals in last Sunday’s Group I Grosser Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches-Zuchtrennen at Germany’s Munich Racecourse, is now expected to challenge the boys once again in the Grade I Arlington Million in Chicago on Aug. 21.

John Heims
Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and Preakness winner Lookin at Lucky are set to headline what is perhaps the deepest field in the 43-year history of the IZOD Haskell, when they go postward in Sunday’s Grade 1 event.  Entries will be drawn Thursday afternoon at Monmouth Park’s annual Haskell press conference which can be seen online via webcast at www.monmouthpark.com.

John Heims
Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT, N.J. – When it comes to Monmouth Park’s premier summer race, trainer Bob Baffert is no stranger to the winner’s circle.

(Edited NYRA/Saratoga Race Course report)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will offer three different guaranteed wagers during the 2010 Saratoga Meet: a $100,000 Guaranteed Pick 6 on Thursdays, a $500,000 Guaranteed Late Pick 4 on Saturdays, and a $1 Million All-Graded Stakes Late Pick 4 on Travers Day, Saturday, Aug. 28.

PLANNED STABLE AREA MAINTENANCE ALSO UNDERWAY

(Edited Santa Anita Park report)

ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita Park, which closed this past Sunday for training for the first time in two years, and which will host the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting beginning Sept. 29, began repair work on its synthetic main track on Monday and embarked upon significant scheduled maintenance of its stable area as well. 

(Edited NYRA release)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Attendance and handle for the opening four days of the expanded Saratoga Race Course meeting matched expectations and decidedly outperformed the final weekend at Belmont Park in 2009, according to the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA).

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Giant Moon made his Saratoga Race Course debut a winning one Monday afternoon, rallying through the stretch to edge Icabad Crane and take the $70,000 Evan Shipman by a neck.

 (Edited NYRA report)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) has announced the stakes programs for the 2010 Belmont Fall Championship Meet and the 2010 Aqueduct Fall Meet, featuring more than 30 graded stakes races and nearly $9 million in purses.