Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juveniles take to the turf Friday for the seventh renewal of the Grade 3, $100,000 With Anticipation Stakes, which trainer Todd Pletcher will attempt to win for the second consecutive year.

In 2009, Pletcher saddled Interactif to an eye-catching 4¼-length victory in the race after being impressed by the way the colt – whose first two starts came on the dirt, including an eighth-place finish in the Grade 2…

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The next chapter in the storybook tale of Lisa’s Booby Trap will be written Thursday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course, when the undefeated filly goes for her fifth straight win in the second division of the $70,000 Riskaverse Stakes.

The saga thus far: Club-footed and blind in one eye, the gangly filly cost her owner and trainer, Tim Snyder, a mere $4,500 earlier this year, for which he put down…

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Nearly one year ago at Saratoga Race Course, Rachel Alexandra thrilled 31,171 spectators when she held on by a head to win the Grade 1 Woodward and become the first filly or mare to win the race in 56 renewals.

On Sunday the reigning Horse of the Year will try to accomplish a personal first – winning at the classic distance of 1¼ miles – when she returns to the…

John Scheinman
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – D’ Funnybone and Discreetly Mine have met twice, and twice D’ Funnybone has emerged victorious. Yet despite those victories – in the Grade 2 Futurity last fall at BelmontPark and the Grade 2 Woody Stephens in June at the same track – horse racing often is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately game.

What Discreetly Mine has done lately is look like a colt in contention for a sprint championship in devastating back-to-back victories…

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Get Stormy will try to pick up his fourth victory at Saratoga Race Course and his second graded stakes victory of the 2010 Spa meeting when he competes in Friday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap.

The 4-year-old son of Stormy Atlantic has emerged victorious in five of his past six races. He won an allowance and the Lure at Saratoga in 2009, and added to his winning streak by…

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Although he has been successful in both open and restricted company, Ibboyee seems to have found an ideal spot Wednesday at Saratoga Race Course as he heads a field of six New York-breds in the $100,000 Albany.

Owned by Anstu Stables and trained by Todd Pletcher, the son of Medallist comes into the 1 1/8th mile Albany off a sharp half-length victory in the 1 1/16th mile New York Derby…

Jon Forbes
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Check the Label will aim for her fourth consecutive victory at as many tracks when she competes at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Woodford Reserve Lake Placid for 3-year-old fillies on the turf.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Evening Jewel, who has been worse than second only once in 11 starts, heads a solid field of 10 3-year-old fillies expected to go postward in Saturday’s running of the Grade I, $300,000 Del Mar Oaks at 1 1/8 miles on the turf at Del Mar.

(Edited Laurel Park report)

LAUREL, Md. – Saturday’s $50,000 Mister Diz Stakes will test 11 Maryland breds including the 1-2-3 finishers from last year. Weather permitting, the Mister Diz goes six furlongs on the grass.

Jenny Kellner
NYRA/Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. –  It will be “East meets West” Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course when Devil May Care and Blind Luck, the top two 3-year-old fillies in the country, face off in the 130th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Betfair TVG Alabama at 1¼ miles.