Nitrogen Looks to Get Back on Track in Apple Blossom

Nitrogen Looks to Get Back on Track in Apple Blossom

Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro), fresh off an Eclipse Award-winning season in 2025, opened her 4-year-old campaign with a win in the Feb. 7 GIII Bayakoa Stakes–a victory trainer Mark Casse called “the best race she's ever run.” Things didn't go quite as well when the filly faded to third in the Mar. 7 over a sloppy Oaklawn surface in the GII Azeri Stakes, but she will look to get back on track when she returns in the GI Apple Blossom Handicap Saturday…

Casse hopes champ Nitrogen bounces back in Apple Blossom

Presumably, multimillionaire filly Nitrogen will be glad to be out of the slop at Oaklawn. The better to return to the form that made her an Eclipse Award winner last year. Not that she herself could make excuses after she fizzled last month. “I don’t know if it was the track or what,” her trainer Mark Casse said. “José said she was funny. He said she was exhausted after the Azeri.” Flatter Pod: Casse on Nitrogen, Kentucky Derby & Oaks. From las…