Red Oak Stable News Today

A strong maiden win by Private Desire on Saturday will likely warrant an effort at stakes level, possibly the Champagne (G1).

Mind Control has been disqualified from his 2022 Parx Dirt Mile Stakes win for a positive drug test and trainer Todd Pletcher suspended 15 days.

Regulatory officials in Florida have issued three complaints to Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher for overages of therapeutic medication.

Red Oak Stable (Stephen P. Brunetti) and Madaket Stable’s (Sol Kumin) Mind Control, winner of the Grade 1 $750,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct in New York on Dec. 3 in the final start of his career, will stand stallion duty at Rockridge Stud in New York under the management of Irish Hill Farm, Dutchess Views Stallions, and Rockridge Stud.

Trainer Robertino Diodoro, Oaklawn’s leading trainer in 2020, is off to a fast start at the 2022-2023 meet, picking up his second stakes win since the Dec. 9 opening and his second straight $200,000 Tinsel Stakes victory on Saturday with John Holleman’s Bal Harbour.

John Holleman’s Bal Harbour rushed to the lead Saturday under jockey Cristian Torres and held it throughout for a win in the $200,000 1 1/8-mile Tinsel Stakes for horses 3 years old and up before an estimated crowd of 8,250 at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs on Saturday.

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ three-time Grade 1-winning millionaire Mind Control had to overcome adversity to win the final start of his career, but his superiority reigned supreme in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday’s $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Mind Control will attempt to go out on top when he takes on a field consisting of three other Grade 1 winners in Saturday’s G1 Cigar Mile

After they were denied an appeal hearing for a disqualification at Parx Racing, an owner and trainer have sued an executive of the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission.