Thunder Chicken
– Rags to Riches settles in at the Spa, makes a new friend, deals with paparazzi (NTRA).
– Teuflesberg makes his turf debut in the Glow Stakes, Saturday’s third race at Saratoga. “He’s just doing so well and feeling so good that we wanted to find something to keep him on the level,” said trainer Jamie Sanders of the move (ThoroTimes). Nobiz Like Shobiz will try the same on Monday, when he starts in the G2 Hall of Fame Stakes for trainer Barclay Tagg.
– After nearly two years off, the bard made a triumphant return to the races on Thursday. Shakespeare’s one-mile allowance win was so easy, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is confidently looking ahead to a graded stakes start for the six-year-old horse. “He’s a grade one horse. Where we go from this we’ll have to see, but the Bernard Baruch is the first thing that jumps out August 25” (Blood-Horse).
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