Ed Derosa

That is an angle I am willing to take when approaching this year's Grade 1 Travers Stakes on Aug. 29 at Saratoga, with Golden Tempo returning to the races for the first time since winning the Belmont Stakes and familiar faces waiting for him.

Although the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority failed to reach an agreement with Marshall Gramm on answering to its fraud charges against him, Gramm has voluntarily submitted to at least one of the terms of the deal: giving up handicapping tournament prizes he won during the period of impropriety: early May-June 30.

The Grade 1 Pacific Classic has been a coming-out party of sorts for some of the sport's biggest names the last 11 years: Beholder was breathtaking when defeating males in 2015, and Flightline passed his distance test in 2022 when winning like Secretariat did in the Belmont Stakes.

The 2-5 morning line on Counting Stars pretty much tells the tale of how much the two-time Grade 1 winner towers over her five rivals in the Alabama Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga.

Angel Quiroz, the trainer involved with eight horses who may have been involved in an international wagering coup as well as a ninth horse who tested positive for albuterol while training at the same time and location as the coup d'octet, will leave Fair Hill Training Center within a month.

The biggest day of the Del Mar season is Saturday, with the Grade 1 Pacific Classic headlining an 11-race card that includes three other graded stakes.

A little more than a month ago, I though British Columbia-bred Really Ralis

Marshall Gramm has accepted a provisional suspension from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. This is voluntary on Gramm's part and does not affect HISA's investigation into his accessing veterinarian records from the HISA portal.

The old adage that Grade 1 winners win Grade 1 races does not apply when taking nice prices against Grade 1 winners.

The most meaningful Breeders' Cup prep race this weekend is restricted to 3-year-olds, which could help prices on older horses in the first of two Classic future wagers.