The Four Star Grad by Giant’s Causeway notched his second graded win of the year.
A bicoastal showdown looms on Saturday at Santa Anita Park as Richard Mandella’s United (Four Star Graduate) and Chad Brown’s eastern-based Rockemperor head a field of seven 3-three-year-olds and up in the Grade 2, $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes at a mile and one quarter on turf.
There may have been no shortage of hard-knocking racehorses to be found in the pages of Fasig-Tipton’s July Selected Horses of Racing Age catalog, but Jalen Journey had no trouble standing out.
Talk Veuve to Me (Violence) left little to doubt as her connections will pop the champagne upon her dominating graduation and being named the newest ‘TDN Rising Star’ at Fair Grounds Sunday.
Go Noni Go, trying synthetics for the first time in her career, earned her first stakes win in Saturday’s GIII Bourbonette S. at Turfway Park. The dark bay filly angled in from her outside post and settled at the back of the field early. She began picking off rivals down the backstretch and charged into contention nearing the stretch, surging past In the Mood with a furlong to run en route to a confident tally.
Fresh off a victory in her stakes debut, Startwithsilver will go for her second in a row and fourth consecutive overall victory in headlining a field of 10 older fillies and mares in the 78th running of the $100,000 Correction on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack.
