Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle a pair of top contenders in Kalifornia Queen and Love And Thunder in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Athena, a nine-furlong inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
Demand for quality racehorses, led by the sale of a Curlin colt for $900,000, fueled another day of positive results as the Keeneland September Yearling Sale resumed Saturday following a one-day hiatus.
The $100,000 Clara Barton Mares Open Pace is the co-featured race to the $250,000 Spirit Of Massachusetts Trot that will be held at Plainridge Park on Monday (July 25). But make no mistake, this race does not take a back seat when it comes to competition.
Dynamic One capitalized on a patient approach from the outset that left enough in reserve to fend off a game First Captain in the final jumps for a victory by a nose in Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Suburban for 4-year-olds and up going 1 1/4 miles on the Belmont Park main track.
Forbidden Trade has won the Hambletonian, a Horse of the Year Award, and divisional honors every year except at age four when he was injured. Yet, for all his accomplishments, the six-year-old male trotter remains somewhat under the radar.