Donato’s Saratoga selections for Saturday, July 17, 2021 | The Daily Gazette
SECTIONS
The first Grade I race of the Saratoga meet will be Saturday’s Diana Stakes, run at 1 1/8 miles on the inner turf, and a pair of stablemates are looking to make the race their own.
This will be the fourth consecutive race for either Althiqua (3-1) or Summer Romance (4-1), where the other is also entered, and in each of the last three of those races, one of that pair has been the outright winner. Althiqua took the Grade II Cape Verdi at Meydan in the United Arab Emirates in January of this year and Summer Romance countered by winning the Grade II Balanchine, also at Meydan, back in February at the same distance as the Diana. In their first race stateside, Althiqua took the rubber match with a win at Belmont in the Grade I Just a Game Stakes in June.