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The 6-year-old gelding, who won six of seven starts in 2023, proves to be one of the top Cal-breds by beating Brickyard Ride again on California Cup day

Two weeks after finishing fifth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1), The Chosen Vron easily won the $100,000 Cary Grant on Saturday at Del Mar.

"I don’t think I’ve ever run a horse back in two weeks,” Kruljac says. “But he was just screaming for a race."

The Chosen Vron takes not a class drop but a plunge from Grade 1 company to the state-bred ranks and is listed at 4-5 in the morning line.

Case in point, C Z Rocket. A 9-year-old gelding who will be running in the G2 Pat O’Brien for the fourth time this Saturday at Del Mar.

Anarchist, who was beaten a head by win machine The Chosen Vron following a furious finish in the July 29 Bing Crosby Stakes at six furlongs.

All three Triple Crown winners line up against the 2022 juvenile champ Forte in Saturday's Travers Stakes, the "Midsummer Derby," at Saratoga in the highlight of a massive weekend of racing.

A come-from-behind winner of the Golden State Juvenile, Finneus will stretch to two turns again in the $100,000 King Glorious Sunday.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert completed a weekend sweep of the graded stakes at Los Alamitos with the Bayakoa Stakes.