Hall of Fame trainers Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher were impressed with Flightline’s dominant performance in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. But are they ready to take him on in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November?

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The ill-fated stallion The Lieutenant was represented by his first winner when Vacation Dance scored by a head in his debut in the first race at Saratoga Race Course Sept. 4.

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Successful in her first time out at Saratoga Race Course in July, Leave No Trace wasted little time putting another win onto her record when she broke clear to take the Sept. 4 Spinaway Stakes (G1).

Hall of Fame trainers Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher were impressed with Flightline’s dominant performance in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. But are they ready to take him on in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in November?

Mendocino upset the market principals Torquator Tasso and Sammarco to land the Sep. 4 Grosser Preis von Baden (G1) under Rene Piechulek.

Andy Serling and Richard Migliore look back at the G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup and G2 Flower Bowl from Saratoga.

Heather Smullen, who was an exercise rider for trainer Barclay Tagg, has had two surgeries on her right leg in the last year after she was injured in an accident at Saratoga at the end of the 2021 meet.

Owner Dean Reeves is looking to end the Saratoga Race Course meet the same way he started it: with a grade 3 win with multiple stakes-winner City Man. This time, the son of Mucho Macho Man runs in the Sept. 5, $200,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap (G3T).