Michaelg Schaefer News Today

“I don’t think he’s had the opportunity to be in a graded stakes where he is going the right way and he gets things his way,” said Oliver.

Trademark made his second start at Horseshoe Indianapolis a winning effort, scoring the win in the 23rd running of the $100,000 Michael G. Schaefer Memorial. The race is named after the first chairperson of the Indiana Horse Racing Commission and members of his family were trackside to present the trophy.

Eagle, a Grade 3 winner and veteran Texas sire, will stand the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season in Uruguay for the partnership of Haras Cuatro Cabezas and Haras Palermo, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.

“He’s had a very successful career. He’s been a little unfortunate in his last few, but it’s not from lack of effort.”

A total of $4.75 million will be dispersed over 38 events led by the Grade 3 $300,000 Indiana Derby slated for Saturday, July 8.

Plainsman, a multiple Grade 3-winning son of Flatter, will retire to Buck Pond Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2023 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $5,000.

Mr. Wireless, who earned his first stakes victory a year ago in the G3 Indiana Derby, returns for Saturday's Michael G. Schaefer Memorial.

Hanalei’s Houdini will be my top choice to win the Essex Handicap, and it is likely he will go to post at high odds.