Also: HORSE RACING: Bring Theband Home scorches to victory in Listed $150K Harvey Pack • HORSE RACING: Phileas Fogg goes gate-to-wire; fends off late challenge from Antiquarian to win G2 Suburban presented by Subourbon
 Saturday, July 5, 2025 | | |
| | | | Happy Saturday! We hope everyone enjoys the holiday weekend. Before you head out or enjoy that morning cup of iced coffee or tea, check out some of the top stories on our website. Be safe and enjoy the day. — Nicholas Buonanno, Assistant Senior Editor
e-edition obituaries | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — For the first time ever, racing fans were able to spend their Independence Day at the Saratoga Race Course, enjoying world-class racing and an abundance of activities. Friday was the titular day of the four-day July 4th Racing Festival, which moved upstate this summer due to the ongoing construction and renovation of Belmont Park in Elmont, NY. Racing fans like Tyler Sousa and his family were excited to spend their holiday at the race course. “I think it’s going to be packed today, and I think it’s a good decision because with the construction at Belmont […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — There was no catching Live Oak Plantation's blazing hot Bring Theband Home as he wired the field in Friday's Listed $150,000 Harvey Pack, a 5 1/2-furlong Mellon turf sprint for older horses on Day 2 of the July 4th Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse and piloted by fellow enshrine Javier Castellano, the son of Into Mischief completed the course in 59.90 seconds, just one-tenth off the track and North American record of 59.80 set by Cogburn in last year's Grade 1 Jaipur. He notched his first stakes victory […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Jupiter Stable's Phileas Fogg broke to the front from the inside post and led through every point of call before holding off Antiquarian's late surge by a head for a thrilling finish in winning Friday's Grade 2, $400,000 Suburban presented by Subourbon, a 1 1/4-mile test for older horses, during the July 4th Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. The victory gave trainer Gustavo Rodriguez his first career graded stakes win, accomplishing the feat at a historic track, and gave the 5-year-old son of Astern his first graded stakes win in his second attempt after a […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Zulu Kingdom rewarded his heavy 2-5 favoritism by easily overtaking Maui Strong at the top of the stretch and surging home a three-quarter-length winner in Friday's Grade 3, $200,000 Manila, a one-mile inner turf test for 3-year-olds on Day Two of the July 4th Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. Campaigned by Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb, William Strauss and Michael Caruso, Zulu Kingdom stayed undefeated in three starts in his sophomore campaign and improved to 6-for-7 overall in his career. The Irish-bred son of Ten Sovereigns scratched out of last Friday's Grade 3 Penn Mile and […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Amerman Racing's Kentucky homebred Test Score aced his second attempt at a Grade 1 victory when storming home a 1 1/4-length winner under Manny Franco in Friday's featured $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational, a nine-furlong Mellon turf test for sophomores, on Day Two of the July 4th Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Graham Motion, the son of Lookin At Lucky entered from a game runner-up finish to Zulu Kingdom in the Grade 1 American Turf on May 3 at Churchill Downs, where he finished just 1 1/4 lengths back of the multiple graded stakes-winner. […] | | | | | Trump achieved the historic — and divisive — legislative victory in time for the nation's birthday. | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Kingsolver, with Flavien Prat up for trainer Rodolphe Brisset, graduated in style in Friday's Listed $150,000 Schuylerville, a six-furlong sprint for juvenile fillies on Day Two of the July 4th Racing Festival, at Saratoga Race Course. Kingsolver entered from a 2 3/4-length fifth in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden sprint on June 11 at Churchill Downs. However, the talented dark bay, out of the Speightstown mare Famous Writer and named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning American essayist Barbara Kingsolver, was poetry in motion down the lane to score a memorable maiden win. "We did a canoe trip with […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Unraced at two, Mindframe showed signs of being a serious racehorse when he broke his maiden (by 13 ¾ lengths) in his career debut at Gulfstream on March 30, 2024. When he followed that with a 7 ½-length score in an opening-level allowance, trainer Todd Pletcher elected to see what the Constitution colt could do 35 days later in the Belmont Stakes. Mindframe showed he was up to the task, taking the lead in mid-stretch before running greenly the rest of the way and being out-finished by Dornoch. After a similar runner-up performance four weeks later […] | | | |
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