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After a third-place finish in the Curlin, First Captain will skip the Travers at Saratoga...

Donato’s Saratoga selections for Friday, July 30, 2021 | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS The Curlin Stakes will be the featured race Friday with a field of seven scheduled to run the ninth race over nine furlongs of the Main Track and two of those entrants, First Captain (7-5), and Miles D (10-1) are by the race’s namesake. First Captain is undefeated through three races, with the most recent coming as the favorite against graded company. In that race, he bested the field at the final sixteenth marker and made space from there, winning by 1 3/4 lengths. He looks suited for a return to the winn...

Big weekend for Travers hopefuls, led by Essential Quality in Jim Dandy | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — We know how good Essential Quality is. This weekend at Saratoga Race Course provides an opportunity to see how good some of the other 3-year-old colts are, including several who are on the rise after having started their racing careers on the late side. That opportunity comes in the form of two nine-furlong races that should serve as steppingstones to the Aug. 28 Travers, Friday’s Curlin and Saturday’s Grade II Jim Dandy, for which the 2-year-old male champion ...

Lightly raced First Captain works toward start in Friday’s Curlin | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — First Captain has been playing catch-up. Actually, he’s been winning catch-up, if that’s a game in which you give your classmates a huge head start, then you try to cut the gap. Unraced at 2 in 2020 and until April this year, after having been purchased for $1.5 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale, the son of Curlin is undefeated from three career starts, most recently the Grade III Dwyer at Belmont Park on July 5. Now, the Aug. 28 Traver...

Slow start for Brown, but fast finish for Technical Analysis in Lake George | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — The quantity hasn’t been there for the Chad Brown barn so far at the 2021 Saratoga Race Course meet, with just two winners in the first five days of the meet. At least he got some quality on Friday, with a 1-2 finish, respectively, from Technical Analysis and Fluffy Socks in the Grade III Lake George. The Mechanicville native has won the Saratoga training title for most victories at the meet three times since 2016, but has been off to a slow start, and also h...