Blood-Horse

It didn't take long for trainer Brad Cox to know Aug. 6 would not be Matareya's day. 

Woodbine stakes races rescheduled to Aug. 12 at the Toronto oval.

Fundraiser aims to raise $150,000 for retired racehorses.

Collaring favored Shedaresthedevil late on the second turn, Blue Stripe pulled clear in the lane to win the $400,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (G1) at Del Mar.

Grade 2 winner Tiz the Bomb sustained an injury Aug. 5 in finishing fourth in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course, trainer Kenny McPeek announced Aug. 6 via Twitter.

Souper Hoity Toity, under Patrick Husbands, made it two straight stakes wins after scoring the CA$153,400 Ontario Colleen Stakes (G3T), Aug. 6 at Woodbine.

Awesome Strong paid immediate dividends for CSLR Ranch Partners Aug. 6 at Gulfstream Park, capturing the $100,000 Dr. Fager Stakes in his first start since being privately purchased for $500,000.

A throwback type of horse that has already made 12 starts through his 3-year-old year, Skippylongstocking notched the first graded stakes win of his career in the $500,000 West Virginia Derby (G3) Aug. 6 at Mountaineer Racetrack & Casino.

Charlie Appleby trainee Nations Pride rallied to win the Aug. 6 Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) at Saratoga Race Course.

Strutting his blazing speed, Life Is Good took charge at the start of the Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course and repelled bids from Happy Saver and Hot Rod Charlie to definitively win the prestigious, 1 1/8-mile race.

Castleton Lyons' Chi Town Lady rolled to a last-to-first victory while upsetting the heavy 1-5 favorite Matareya in a wet rendition of the $500,000 Longines Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 6.

Strutting his blazing speed, Life Is Good took charge at the start of the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course and repelled bids from Happy Saver and Hot Rod Charlie to definitively win the prestigious, 1 1/8-mile race.

To no surprise, it was 2-5 favorite War Like Goddess who sailed home first in the $250,000 Glens Falls Stakes (G2T) Aug. 6 at Saratoga Race Course, taking the 1 1/2 mile turf event for the second year in a row.

Castleton Lyons' Chi Town Lady rolled to a last-to-first victory while upsetting the heavy 1-5 favorite Matareya in a wet rendition of the $500,000 Longines Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 6.

At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, Golden Pal was sprawled out on a bed of wood chips in his stall and in a state of Thoroughbred dreamland. The 4-year-old son of Uncle Mo had earned the rest after winning the Troy at Saratoga Race Course the day before.

Giving Golden Pal nearly all he could handle, the 8-year-old son of Kodiac showed owner J. Larry Johnson and trainer Graham Motion what they needed to see to give the world traveler his own shot at the Breeders' Cup.

For Bill Farish, it was three wins rolled into one.

Brent Hayden died overnight July 30 in his bed in a barn owned by his former supervisor J. D. Howard, retired farm manager of Southern Equine and formerly of Walmac Farm, according to friends and family. He was 67.

Multiple group 1 winner Perfect Power will have his chance to make amends for a poor showing in the July Cup (G1) as he returns to the site of his Prix Morny (G1) victory in the Aug. 7 Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) at Deauville.

Back in off the layoff, Sumter looms large Aug. 7 in the $150,000 La Jolla Handicap (G3T) at Del Mar, where Preakness Stakes (G1) runner Armagnac will make his turf debut.