GII Bernard Baruch

Saturday, Aqueduct RED SMITH S.-GII, $200,000, Aqueduct, 11-20, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT, 2:16.60, fm. 1--SERVE THE KING (GB), 124, h, 5, by Kingman (GB)               1st Dam: Fallen In Love (GB) (GSP-Eng), by Galileo (Ire)               2nd Dam: Fallen Star (GB), by Brief Truce               3rd Dam: Rise And Fall (GB), by Mill Reef 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. (260,000gns Ylg '17 TATOCT). O-Peter M. Brant; B-Normandie Stud Ltd (GB); T-Chad Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $110,000. Lifetime Record: 11-5-2-1, $406,180. *1/2 to Loving Things (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), GSW-Fr, SW & GSP-Eng, $107,896....

It's not unusual to see the Saratoga meeting's top two trainer knock heads in graded competition and such is again the case in Monday's GII Bernard Baruch H. Representing 'Team Pletcher' is En Wye Cee (Declaration of War), a winner going nine furlongs in a rained-off optional claimer at this meet in 2020, but winless in two starts since. After rounding out last season with a third behind the Chad Brown-trained pair of Devamani (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Olympico (Fr) (Rajsaman {Fr}), the full-brother to GSW Silentio lacked racing room...

Riding a two-race winning streak, Harrell Ventures' Halladay (War Front) will try to take it to the next level in Sunday's GII Bernard Baruch S. at Saratoga. Victorious in Gulfstream's Tropical Park Derby last December, the grey finished fourth--beaten two lengths--in the GIIII Tampa Bay S. Feb. 8 before returning with a three-length score in a one-mile Gulfstream optional claimer Apr. 4. Most recently, Halladay went gate-to-wire over subsequent GI United Nations winner Aquaphobia (Giant's Causeway) and stablemate Social Paranoia (Street Boss), who took the GIII Poker S. at Belmont...