HORSE RACING: Appleby Sends Out Nations Pride, El Cordobes in Search of First Sword Dancer Victory

HORSE RACING: Appleby sends out Nations Pride, El Cordobes in search of first Sword Dancer victory

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — International powerhouse trainer Charlie Appleby has won his fair share of top turf events at New York’s racetracks, and will have two chances to add a Grade 1, $750,000 Resorts World Casino Sword Dancer coup to his ledger as he sends out the Godolphin-owned pair of Nations Pride and El Cordobes in the 1 1/2-mile inner turf test for older horses on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. The Sword Dancer is a “Win and You’re I…

Arlington Million runners all in search of breakthrough win

After dodging Nations Pride, who runs in Saturday's Sword Dancer at Saratoga, a field of eight has signed on for the Grade 1 Arlington Million at Colonial Downs. After a second in the United Nations, Grand Sonata should get a nice stalking trip in the Million.

Sword Dancer Odds: Far Bridge Seeks Repeat in BC ‘Win and You’re In’ Race

After Christophe Clement upset the 2014 Belmont Stakes (G1) with Tonalist, no longer was he pigeon-holed as a turf trainer. But it was with grass runners that the Frenchman made his mark in America, and two-time Eclipse champion Gio Ponti was his best. Far Bridge. NYRA/Coglianese Photo. Clement died May 25 of a rare eye cancer, and the last horse he saddled was Far Bridge in the May 10 Man o' War Stakes on the grass at Aqueduct. He won the 1 3/…

Sword Dancer 2025: Odds and analysis for Saratoga stakes

The Grade 1, $750,000 Sword Dancer, which is a win-and-you’re-in qualifier for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 1, drew a field of nine. Last year’s winner Far Bridge returns in the 1 1/2-mile contest that will be run on the inner turf course at Saratoga on Saturday.   The Sword Dancer field includes seven stakes winners, including two who have Grade 1 victories, a pair  who won a Grade 2 and one Grade 3 winner. Three horses were sired …