Fall Highweight News Today

New York-bred Bold Journey doubled up on stakes scores while bringing his win streak to three in a row in Saturday’s $150,000 Gravesend at Aqueduct.

“I'd compare him to Mike Tyson – someone that still looks like he could step in the ring, just very athletic naturally,” De Paz said.

Greeley and Ben, still going strong at the age of 9, chases a second straight victory and 25th overall against 11 rivals in the Dave’s Friend

The American Graded Stakes Committee reviewed 970 U.S. stakes races and assigned Graded status to 429 of them, 11 fewer than in 2023.

Durante returns to the scene of his last-out Bold Ruler (G3) win in Friday’s $200,000 Fall Highweight Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct

Geroux used only one word to describe the 2017 Horse of the Year and leading third-crop sire’s talented daughter: Champion.

“You would never know his age,” Englehart said, with a laugh. “He’s a very high-energy animal and he loves his job.”

Michael Scheffres’ multiple Grade 3-placed Factor It In continued his career-best form Saturday at Laurel Park by cruising to this third stakes victory in five starts, a two-length triumph in the $100,000 Fire Plug.

Undefeated stakes winners Post Time and Recruiter and Grade 3-placed Prove Right top 24 nominations to the $100,000 Spectacular Bid for newly turned 3-year-olds Saturday, Jan. 21 at Laurel Park.

Bred in Maryland by Dr. and Mrs. A. Leonard Pineau, Jaxon Traveler was the state’s champion 2-year-old in 2020 and 3-year-old in 2021.