J. Keeler Johnson handicaps a quartet of Saturday races at Saratoga, including the Diana S. (G1).

Trainer Wesley Ward will have two chances in Eye Witness and No Nay Hudson (IRE) to earn his second score in the $175,000 Quick Call Stakes (G3T) July 16 at Saratoga Race Course.

Champion 2-year-old male Forte is aimed to race in the Jim Dandy Stakes July 29 at Saratoga. Kentucky Derby winner Mage on July 14 will have his fourth work since the Preakness Stakes, after which a decision will be made on where he will run next.

Connections of Via Sistina have been perusing every weather app going this week in the run-up to her first crack at group 1 level in Britain in the July 14 Falmouth Stakes and could scratch at the final hour if the course is too firm.

After winning the training title at Saratoga Race Course the last two years, trainer Chad Brown knows the pressure is on him to win another one. He is more than ready to go for the three-peat.

Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable’s 2022 champion 2-year-old male Forte is aimed to race next in the $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) July 29 at Saratoga Race Course, Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher told track publicity.

Bidders were quick out of the blocks July 13 as the morning session of the Tattersalls July Sale welcomed a 330,000gns market leader before the clock had even struck 10 a.m. 

The choice to supplement Lady Bamford’s Oaks (G1) winner Soul Sister for the Grand Prix de Paris runs counter to ingrained habits. Since six fillies ran in the Longchamp group 1 between 1990 and 1994, the race has been contested solely by colts.

Keeneland Sales has become the presenting sponsor of the Alabama Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course and, as recently announced, the Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar.

Winning first time out with a 2-year-old is hardly the forte of Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, partially explaining why CJ Thoroughbreds’ Sugar Hi was listed at 8-1 in the morning line for her career debut July 13 in the second race at Saratoga,