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SARATOGA SPRINGS In the early spring, trainer Chad Brown had two Klaravich Stables colts pointing toward the Triple Crown trail.
They both wound up in the Grade II Wood Memorial on April 3, then the Preakness on May 15, and there they were together again on Saturday, breezing four furlongs side-by-side on the main track at Saratoga Race Course.
Only one is ready to get back to the races for the first time since the Preakness, though, and that’s Risk Taking, who will run in the Grade II Jim Dandy on Saturday looking to regain the form he showed in winning the Grade III Withers in February.
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The first Grade I race of the Saratoga meet will be Saturday’s Diana Stakes, run at 1 1/8 miles on the inner turf, and a pair of stablemates are looking to make the race their own.
This will be the fourth consecutive race for either Althiqua (3-1) or Summer Romance (4-1), where the other is also entered, and in each of the last three of those races, one of that pair has been the outright winner. Althiqua took the Grade II Cape Verdi at Meydan in the United Arab Emirates in January of this year and Summer Romance countered by winning the Grade II Balanchine, also at Meydan, back in February at the same distance as the Diana. In their first race stateside, Althiqua took the rubber match with a win at Belmont in the Grade I Just a Game Stakes in June.
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Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen edged defending champion Mike Maker to claim the top prize of $50,000 for the third time in five years in the Maryland Jockey Club s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness weekend, May 14-15, at Pimlico Race Course.
Asmussen started 11 horses in 10 stakes over the two days, finishing with 54 points. On May 15 he ran first and second with Mighty Mischief and Jaxon Traveler in the $200,000 Chick Lang (G3) and also finished second with Midnight Bourbon in the 146th Preakness Stakes (G1), Strike Power in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint (G3) and Casual in the $100,000 Runhappy Skipat. Boldor finished fourth for Asmussen in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
Updated: 9:21 PM EDT May 15, 2021 Rombauer romped to an 11-1 upset victory in the Preakness on Saturday, denying Bob Baffert-trained Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit the chance at a Triple Crown that would have come with a giant asterisk.Medina Spirit finished third in the 1 3/16-mile race and was passed for the first time in his career after going off as the 2-1 favorite. All eyes were on Medina Spirit after he failed a post-Derby drug test for the presence of the steroid betamethasone. I had to come out running to get my position, Medina Spirit jockey John Velazquez said. I knew that he was going to be pressed today. I was hoping that he wouldn t overdo it, and we did. Midnight Bourbon, who was 3-1, was second. Keepmeinmind was fourth and Baffert-trained Concert Tour ninth in the 10-horse field.Rombauer busted the bias of horses hugging the rail on the dirt at Pimlico Race Course all day, going past Midnight Bourbon and Medina Spirit down the stretch and winning by