Malathaat also finished one place in front of Clairiere when second in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks last July at Saratoga and when third in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Distaff in November at Del Mar.Ĭlairiere finally got the better of her old rival in the Ogden Phipps on Belmont Stakes day, winning by a head. Malathaat defeated Clairiere in each of their first four meetings, including the 2021 Kentucky Oaks en route to Eclipse Award-honors as Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. She faces nothing like that here.īut, speaking of Clairiere and Malthaat, they meet for the sixth time in Sunday's $200,000 Grade II Shuvee Stakes at Saratoga. comes off a third-place finish in the Grade I Odgen Phipps and Belmont Park, where she chased home super talents Clairiere and Malathaat. It's a tough field, also including Army Wife and Bonny South. She's undefeated after three starts and has a chance to make her presence known.īrown has another favorite,, in Saturday's $400,000 Grade III Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park. Nostalgic was 10th in the Oaks after a slow start, but won the Grade III Gazelle at Aqueduct before that.īutterbean exits a 3-lengths win in the Grade III Iowa Oaks.Īnd Society is another of those Steve Asmussen-trained Gun Runner offspring. Nest likes to sit close to the pace while Secret Oath usually runs from farther back, but with only five entrants, that's not likely to be a consideration.ĭon't totally dismiss the others. While Secret Oath triumphed by a clear 2 lengths in Louisville, circumstances are different now and there's not a lot to separate them. Secret Oath and Nest, the 1-2 finishers from the Kentucky Oaks, meet again in Saturday's $500,000 Grade I Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga.īoth return to filly competition after coming up just a little short against males - Secret Oath finishing fourth in the Preakness and Nest third in the Belmont Stakes. He finished 10th in last year's Kentucky Derby, proving again he's not a turf-only maestro, both are trained by Brown. But most were achieved somewhat down the class ladder.Įxceptions are the favorites - Pipeline, a 9-lengths winner in his last at Aqueduct and third in the Perryville at Keeneland last fall, and Highly Motivated, making a key third start back after a layoff. Saturday's $400,000 Grade III Monmouth Cup has some awfully impressive last-race running lines in the past performances of a few of the seven entries. It also drew Arkansas Derby winner Cyberknife, 18th home in Louisville, and then winner of the Grade III Matt Winn at Churchill Downs. The Haskell also drew Florida Derby winner White Abarrio, who was sixteenth in the Run for the Roses and most recently second to Tawny Port in the Grade III Ohio Derby at Thistledown. It doesn't hurt that his trainer is Brown - a name that, as mentioned earlier, will recur in the rest of this missive. Ortiz Jr then throws one more big hook that connects with Lopez, who by this point is falling forward out of his chair.If the Munnings colt can handle the distance and win this, he'll jump right up among the division leaders. He follows up with a left-handed punch to the nose as one horrified bystander watches on.
Lopez recoils when Ortiz Jr's fist lands on his cheek, but Ortiz Jr goes back in for more.
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