Terry Hamilton’s Heart to Heart took the field from gate-to-wire in Monday’s Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga, crossing the wire 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Forge and Delta Prince. The 6-year-old son of English Channel was taken to the lead by Irad Ortiz, Jr., who set well-timed fractions to have plenty of horse turning for home. Trained by ...

Robert LaPenta and Head of Plains Partners’ Coal Front led the field wire-to-wire in Saturday’s G2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga, finishing 1 1/2 lengths in front of Excitations to earn his first graded stakes win. The sophomore son of Stay Thirsty is now unbeaten in three career starts for trainer Todd Pletcher. Ridden by John Velazquez for both he and Pletcher’s ...

On his 34th birthday, jockey Julien Leparoux took what he was given. And that was a wire-to-wire victory as WinStar Farm’s Overture held off favored Mopotism for a length victory in the $ 200,000, Grade 3 Indiana Oaks at Indiana Grand. Overture, in her first stakes race, was in the clear through a tepid first quarter-mile in 24.68 seconds, the ...

Sharp Azteca, the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap winner in his most recent outing, worked an easy 800m (about 4 furlongs) under exercise rider Anthony Cruz on Monday morning in Dubai. Trainer Jorge Navarro was pleased with the move, even if he couldn’t say for certain what the time was. “I got him in 55 seconds, I think,” he said. ...

Nick Alexander’s Enola Gray and jockey Tyler Baze win the $ 100,000 California Distaff Handicap, Saturday, October 15, 2016 at Santa Anita Park Phil D’Amato is optimistic that Enola Gray can make amends for her second-place finish as the 1-10 favorite in the Betty Grable Stakes at Del Mar Nov. 13 when she runs in the Grade I La Brea ...

Front Pocket Money #1 with Antonio Gallardo riding, held off the late challenge of #3 Yellow Chips and Joe Bravo to win the $ 100,000 Grade III Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth Park Kirk and Judy Robison’s Front Pocket Money was the determined 3/4-length winner of Saturday’s Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth Park. The sophomore son of Uncle ...