Boiling Springs Stakes

A total of eight European contenders cleared quarantine July 3 and jogged the wrong way over the Belmont training track in preparation for the July 9 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1) and Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1).

Horses training under Bob Baffert’s saddle towels were sighted at Santa Anita on the morning of July 3, which marked the end of a 90-day suspension for the two-time Triple Crown winner.

A NYRA official confirmed July 3 that Cindy Hutter was injured in a training accident at the Oklahoma Training Track at Saratoga Race Course and transported to Albany Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition. 

On Racing, Sponsored by Equine Discounts

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ homebred Gunite gamely turned back the challenges of My Prankster and Hoist the Gold in the Maxfield Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs July 3 to register his first victory since taking last year’s Hopeful Stakes (G1).

Lightnin Runner ran to her name in her career debut, winning a maiden special weight event at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races July 2 to become the first winner for first-crop sire Battalion Runner.

Sammarco clung on tenaciously in an exciting finish to the Deutsches Derby (G1) July 3 at Hamburg to become the 10th individual group/grade 1 winner by Coolmore’s multiple-grade 1 winning hero Camelot.

Alpinista thrust herself firmly into the picture for major mile-and-a-half honors when settling the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) with a turn of foot that even jockey Luke Morris admitted took him a little by surprise.

Olympiad put away Caddo River and Mandaloun on the second turn and comfortably repelled a bid from Americanrevolution to win the $750,000 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) July 2 at Churchill Downs.