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Inside Sunday’s BloodHorse Daily:
- Fierceness Outlasts Thorpedo Annain Exciting Travers
- Domestic Product Posts Grade 1 Win in H. Allen Jerkens
- Mullikin Rolls in Forego to Stay Perfect in 2024
- Raging Torrent Bests Favored The Chosen Vron in O'Brien, and more!
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A 3-year-old taking on older runners for the first time, Raging Torrent gamely battled with the more seasoned The Chosen Vron to edge that rival in the seven-furlong Pat O'Brien Stakes (G2) at Del Mar.

Raging Torrent Bests Favored The Chosen Vron in O'Brien

Live Oak Plantation's Ticker Tape Home tallies her first graded success Aug. 24 taking the CA$153,240 Seaway Stakes (G3) at Woodbine.

Live Oak's Ticker Tape Home Triumphant in Seaway

In a race that lived up to the hype, Fierceness, the reigning champion 2-year-old male of 2023, outlasted the brilliant 3-year-old filly Thorpedo Anna to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Fierceness Outlasts Thorpedo Anna in Thrilling Travers

In one of the most anticipated races of the weekend, Domestic Product delivered the finest performance of his career, out-finishing Prince of Monaco and Book 'em Danno to win the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Domestic Product Posts Grade 1 Win in H. Allen Jerkens

After winning the King's Plate Aug. 23 at Woodbine with Caitlinhergrtness, Siena Farm and WinStar Farm teamed up to take down another major race Aug. 24, this time on United States soil with Mullikin in the $500,000 Forego (G1) at Saratoga.

Mullikin Rolls in Forego to Stay Perfect in 2024

Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds' homebred Society tracked pace-setter Munnys Gold and took over at the quarter pole to post a 2 1/2-length victory Aug. 24 in the $500,000 Ballerina Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.

Society Reaches Another High in Ballerina Score

Far Bridge defeats heavily backed Godolphin pair of Measured Time and Silver Knott with a wire-to-wire upset score in the $750,000 Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Far Bridge Defeats Godolphin Pair in Sword Dancer Upset

Del Rosario became the first winner for first-crop sire Gunnevera in rallying from last to win a maiden claiming race over a mile and 70 yards Aug. 24 on Tapeta at Gulfstream Park.

Del Rosario First Winner for First-Crop Sire Gunnevera

Via Sistina powers home up the inside to sn**ch her second elite-level victory in three Australian starts in the 1,400-meter Winx Stakes (G1) Aug. 24.

Via Sistina Rebounds With Nose Winx Triumph at Randwick

Who Do You Like?
Travers Stakes (G1)
Saratoga Race Course, Saturday, August 24, 2024, Race 13
1 1/4 miles, 3-year-olds
Purse $1,250,000
Post Time 6:10pm ET
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Team Valor and Gary Barber’s Anshoda, a recent purchase for connections, wins the Aug. 24 Prestige Stakes (G3) at Goodwood Racecourse and earns a qualifying spot for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T).

Anshoda Captures Prestige, Earns Breeders' Cup Berth

Replicating if not somewhat surpassing his victory in the 2023 Charles Town Classic (G2), Daniel Alonso's Skippylongstocking took charge in the $1 million, 1 1/8-mile race Aug. 23 and scored a blowout victory over Velocitor.

Skippylongstocking Repeats in Charles Town Classic

Folks start wishing Vince DeGregory happy birthday around the first of August and don't stop until well after the 29th, when he will be celebrating number 92 this time around in a racing life that has been well documented in colorful detail.

Agent Legend DeGregory Turns 92 and Still Counting

Jockey and Jeans, which raises funds for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Funds, has announced Gulfstream Park and 1/ST Racing will host their 10th annual fundraiser Jan. 11, 2025, beginning at 12 p.m. ET.

Gulfstream Park to Host 10th Annual Jockeys and Jeans

Inside Saturday's BloodHorse Daily:
- Raging Sea Rallies to Beat Idiomatic in Personal Ensign
- Caitlinhergrtness Upsets Males in King’s Plate
- NBC’s Kornacki Enjoying Thrill of Horse Ownership
- On Racing: Agent Legend DeGregory Turns 92 and Still Counting
- Family of Black Forza on Offer in Keeneland Flash Sale
- Bradsell Rises to the Top Again in Nunthorpe Victory, and much, much, more!
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If there is a major race—whether political or involving Thoroughbreds—Steve Kornacki might be covering it with his analytical style of tracking percentages. But he also has some skin in the horse racing game as a small owner of two horses.

NBC's Kornacki Enjoying Thrill of Horse Ownership

Juddmonte's Tabiti headlines a field of 10 for the Aug. 24 Prestige Stakes (G3) after comfortably beating a field of nine in a maiden at Newmarket over seven furlongs Aug. 10.

Tabiti Headlines Goodwood's Prestige Stakes

As a precursor to Thorpedo Anna's participation against males in the Aug. 24 Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, another 3-year-old filly, Caitlinhergrtness, upset males in the CA$1 million King's Plate at Woodbine Aug. 23.

Caitlinhergrtness Upsets Males in King's Plate

While horse racing often pays or cahoodles celebrities and influencers to say nice things about it, there's no better brand ambassador for the sport than Jayson Werth.

Werth Hits a Home Run With Dornoch, Horse Racing

Alpha Delta Stables' Raging Sea came with a strong run through the lane to catch champion Idiomatic in the final strides of the $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course and win by a head.

Raging Sea Rallies to Beat Idiomatic in Personal Ensign

In a race dubbed a showdown between Big Evs and Asfoora, Bradsell proved to be much the best in the Aug. 23 Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) at York Racecourse.

Bradsell Rises to the Top Again in Nunthorpe Victory

Grade 1 winner Sweet Azteca is the horse to beat in the Aug. 25 $100,000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap (G3) at Del Mar.

Sweet Azteca Class of Rancho Bernardo Field

Keeneland Sales will present an August Flash Sale featuring Harlee Honey and Ocean Honey, dam and half sister, respectively, to recent English group 2-winning juvenile Black Forza, by Complexity.

Family of Black Forza on Offer in Keeneland Flash Sale

In the day following John Stewart's Aug. 22 announcement that he had acquired last month's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) victor Goliath, the Resolute Racing founder outlined his ambitions for the German-bred gelding.

Global Prizes Beckon for Stewart Purchase Goliath

John Deere becomes the name-in-title partner of the $1 million John Deere Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), which will be run on Future Stars Friday, Nov. 1, at this year’s World Championships.

Breeders’ Cup and John Deere Expand Partnership

The New York Racing Association announces the stakes schedule for the fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, which will offer 26 stakes, nine of them graded events, worth a total of $5.33 million. The meet runs Nov. 7-Dec. 29.

Fall Aqueduct Meet to Feature 26 Stakes Worth $5.33M

The Challenge, Presented by Gainesway

City of Troy Punches Ticket to Breeders' Cup Classic

Inside Friday's BloodHorse Daily:
- Idiomatic, Randomized to Meet Again in Personal Ensign
- Brown Runs 1-2-3 in Ballston Spa, Decries Small Field
- The Challenge: City of Troy Punches Ticket to Breeders’ Cup Classic
- My Boy Prince Leads Rescheduled King’s Plate Aug. 23
- Resolute Racing Buys Into Group 1 Winner Goliath
- Big Evs, Asfoora Rematch in Nunthorpe, and much, much, more!
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Resolute Racing's John Stewart extended his fast-growing empire into Europe with the acquisition of recent King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) winner Goliath.

Resolute Racing Buys Into Group 1 Winner Goliath