Trainer Bill Mott sent reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief) and Grade I winner Baeza (McKinzie) to breeze separately over the Oklahoma dirt training track in Saratoga Sunday in preparation for Saturday's GI Whitney Stakes. Godolphin homebred Sovereignty, with assistant trainer Neil Poznansky up, started his work a bit ahead and to the

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Wathnan Racing's Commandment (Into Mischief) exited his runner-up effort in the GII Jim Dandy Stakes Saturday in fine shape and connections are mulling a pair of options for the colt's next start. “I love the way he came out of the race, super pleased with him this morning,” trainer Brad Cox said Sunday. “His energy

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Everett Dobson will have a platform to assess his first year as Chair of The Jockey Club when he presides at its annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, in Saratoga Springs, Aug. 6. In his inaugural address at last year's conference, Dobson said his top priority was to grow the sport and

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GI Haskell Stakes winner Baby Vino (Vino Rosso) will make his next start in the Aug. 29 GI Travers Stakes at Saratoga, trainer Lindsay Schultz confirmed. The decision was made after Baby Vino returned to the work tab Saturday at Monmouth Park, where he breezed four furlongs in :49.20. Schultz had also been considering the

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A handful of hours after WinStar Farm's boom freshman sire Life Is Good (Into Mischief) was represented by his fourth 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard in the form of the debuting filly Life Changing, the stallion's first-crop son Lizhitsumodoraichi became his ninth individual winner with a front-running victory in a newcomers' event over 1800

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