Saratoga Notebook

Ship Cadet raced to a gate-to-wire victory in the Aug. 18 off-the-turf Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Dallas Stewart used to spend the whole summer at Saratoga. Not this year. The veteran trainer will make his first appearance Aug. 19 when he saddles 30-1 Sabra Tuff in the Alabama Stakes (G1).

James “Jim” Brady, the retired former long-time farm manager of Elmendorf Farm, died Aug. 17 in Paris, Ky. He was 93.

De Sica is a homebred for owner/breeder Peter Brant, who also campaigned Demarchelier.

Keystone Thoroughbreds’ graded stakes winner Noah And The Ark will carry a field-high 158 pounds in search of his second top-level score Aug. 23 in the Jonathan Sheppard Handicap (NSA-G1), a 2 3/8-mile hurdle test for older horses at Saratoga.

Trainer Randy Morse talks about his grade 2 winning trainee Taxed who is set to take on the Aug. 19 Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

Andy Serling & Acacia Clement look ahead to the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes Handicap and the Grade 2 Lake Placid Stakes.

The second-top lot came much later in the session when Richard Brown clashed with Charlie Fellowes and Will Douglass over Haras de Saint Pair’s Frankel colt. 

The potential field for the Travers Stakes (G1) shrunk by one Aug. 18 when Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said Reincarnate would not be making the trip to Saratoga. Baffert will send Preakness Stakes (G1) winner National Treasure to the race.