Once a $3,500 yearling purchase, The Queens M G is now a graded stakes winner, taking the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes (G3) by nine lengths at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 4.

Breaking Lucky successfully raced for the partnerships of West Point Thoroughbreds, Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, Eric Young, and R.A. Hill Stable.

Some $13 million will be offered on the 12-race Sept. 7 card, potentially making it America’s richest day of racing outside Breeders’ Cup Championship Saturday.

Every now and then, the racetrack provides moments that stop time. Such was the case for the Sunday crowd at Saratoga Aug. 4 as they cheered home another stellar performance by one of the great marathoners, Next, in the $130,500 Birdstone Stakes.

While Cogburn will have to wait an additional week to run in the $300,000 Troy Stakes (G2T), in one sense the task will be easier due to a defection.

After a disappointing loss in the Aug. 3 Whitney Stakes (G1), plans are up in the air as to where National Treasure will head next or which Breeders’ Cup race the son of Quality Road will aim for.

Honor Marie was the lone hopeful for the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) on the Saratoga Race Course work tab Aug. 4, as he breezed five furlongs in 1:00.85 over the Oklahoma Training Track. Thorpedo Anna later schooled in the paddock.

Report from Japan.

Pedigree and the breeder of record led Repole to pay $450,000 for the bay colt at last year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Sara Elbadwi & Laffit Pincay III look back at the Whitney and the Test Stakes this weekend at Saratoga