The $2.1-million Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale topper Inshallah (Flightline), whose name translated from arabic means 'God willing', had both the will and the way Saturday, rocketing out from the gate at Del Mar and opening up an insurmountable margin to win his debut in 'TDN Rising Star' fashion. Purchased by bloodstock agent Pedro Lanz in May [...]

7th-DMR, 100K, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 8:00 p.m. INSHALLAH (Flightline), the $2.1-million Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale topper earlier this summer, makes his racing debut for trainer John Sadler and owner KAS Stables at Del Mar Saturday. Bred in New York by the Bromans, the colt is out of their top mare Bar of Gold, a GI [...]

2nd-DMR, 100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 5:30 p.m. Spendthrift Farm went to $3.4-million to secure champion 2-year-old filly and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Vequist at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale in 2021 and debuts her second foal, WELL VERSED (Into Mischief), Sunday at Del Mar. Trainer Richard Mandella, who oversaw a bullet work [...]

After an ill-timed fever knocked him out of the GI Breeders' Cup Classic late last year, reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief) reminded everyone just how much he loves Saratoga with a dominating come-from-behind victory in Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GI Whitney Stakes, securing his position for another run at the Classic. [...]

It's difficult to put into words just how good a field will assemble Saturday in Saratoga Springs, New York for the GI Whitney Stakes, a 'Win and You're In' race for November's GI Breeders' Cup Classic. A pair of 2025 Eclipse Award winners, the 2025 Horse of the Year, one additional 3-year-old male Eclipse finalist [...]

Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland Despite receiving little attention on the tote board, Embouteillage (Kingman {GB}) soared right on by the 2-1 race favorite Rockabye (Flightline) and won going away, graduating on debut at Saratoga Wednesday. Given only a 15-1 chance, the homebred for Wertheimer et Frere broke evenly in the middle of the pack [...]

NEW KENT, VA-The newest member of the dual-surface Grade I club was inducted Saturday as Burnham Square (Liam's Map) won Virginia's featured race–the GI Arlington Million at Colonial Downs-on a day when the track saw a record handle of $10,790,616. “I really felt this was the race that would be hard to win,” trainer Ian [...]

NEW KENT, VA–The Cherie DeVaux tour made a stop in Virginia Saturday. Saddling Supercharger (Constitution) for his stakes debut in the GII Secretariat Stakes at Colonial Downs, this year's GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont Stakes-winning trainer cheered the C R K Stable runner to a come-from-behind win. “There seemed to be a lot of [...]

4th-DMR, 80K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 6:30 p.m. Kretz Racing debuts SCORPY (Tapit) Sunday at Del Mar, a $1-million OBS April grad of 2025. A son of MGISP Palacio de Amor, he is a half-brother to SW/MGSP Threefiveindia (Street Hero) and MSW Hero's Amor (Street Hero), a mare whose own son became a graded stakes [...]

From the Commonwealth to the Golden State, Grade-I racing anchors the Saturday lineup. In Virginia, the GI Arlington Million begins its fourth year as the headline act on Saturday's Festival of Racing at Colonial Downs–a day which also features the GII Beverly D. Stakes and the GII Secretariat Stakes. Contesting his fifth straight top-level race, [...]

'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Obliteration (Violance) seeks redemption at the Spa in Friday's GII Amsterdam Stakes. Faced with a pair of 'Rising Stars' in Englishman (Maxfield) and Crude Velocity (Beau Liam) last time out in the GI Woody Stephens June 6, he was best of the rest in third, 5 3/4-lengths back, despite [...]

7th-ELP, 100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 3:42 p.m. Spendthrift Farm and trainer Bob Baffert sweep into Ellis Park Sunday with OBLIVION (Gun Runner), a $1.2-million Keeneland September Yearling Sale grad out of GI Darley Alcibiades winner and 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Restless Rider. That mare, who banked just shy of $900,000 on the track [...]