In a nail-biting edition of the $250,000 Woodford Reserve Virginia Oaks on Saturday at Colonial Downs, Cheyenne Stable’s Style Points and John Gunther and Eurowest Bloodstock Services’ Deep Satin dueled down the stretch and were declared dead heat winners. Trained by Christophe Clement, Style Points was piloted by Manny Franco, who won five stakes and […]

One fantastic day made up for six weeks of frustration this summer for trainer Jorge Abreu, who won three races on Saratoga’s New York Showcase Day program on Sunday capped by a 13-1 upset recorded by Moonage Daydream in the $200,000 Yaddo Stakes. Moonage Daydream, coming out of a fourth-place finish in the Perfect Sting […]

Sackatoga Stable’s Courtly Banker dug in gamely down the stretch to get his head down over the pacesetting Fidelightcayut in Thursday’s $125,000 Rick Violette, a 1 1/16-mile Mellon turf route for New York-bred sophomores, at Saratoga Race Course. Bred in the Empire State by John Eaton and Steve Laymon, Courtly Banker is out of the […]