Daily Racing Form

It was a barrage of Indiana Sire Stakes events on Friday, Aug. 21 at Harrah's Hoosier Park, with rookie trotting fillies and pacing males in action, to go along with the 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers. A few horsemen dominated the proceedings, with the Erv and Alvin Miller stables combining to take half of the 14 races, while driver John De Long tallied five wins on the evening.

Louis-Philippe Roy nabbed the pair of Grade 3 events for pacing 2-year-olds at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night (Aug. 21), winning the C$120,000 Dream Maker final with undefeated colt Shalom Hanover and the C$125,000 Whenuwishuponastar final with filly Treacherous Nova. Shalom Hanover upped his unbeaten record to four with a 1:51 4/5 stroll as the 1-9 favorite in the Dream Maker final.

Trotting 2-year-olds sparred in a pair of eliminations for the Grade 1 William Wellwood Memorial and Peaceful Way Stakes on Friday (Aug. 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with Detonater Hanover and Gios Hope taking the Wellwood elims, while Dataprivacy and Fashion Athena scored in the Peaceful Way elims. Detonater Hanover resurfaced from a win in the Grade 3 Millard Farms final with a game push against Top Reacher to win his William Wellwood elimination in a 1:52 3/5 mile.

Eastie Boy, a full brother to double Dan Patch Award recipient Louprint, was a 1:50 2/5 winner of Friday evening's $129,491 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes contest for 2-year-old male pacers at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Driven by Ronnie Wrenn Jr., Eastie Boy watched on the outside from third as Stonebridge Blitz (Dave Palone) led early but was overtaken by Crunchstyle (Ridge Warren) nearing the 26 3/5 quarter. Eastie Boy then pushed forward and took charge on the way to the 55 2/5 half.

Wrong Sounds Right picked up his third win in his last four tries Friday night at the Meadowlands after taking the featured $80,000 Garden State for 2-year-old colts and geldings on the trot. The Jim Campbell trainee, sent off as the popular 1-9 favorite, was reserved early, sitting fourth in the eight-horse field as 5-1 second choice Easy Down Blonde took the field past the quarter in 28 1/5.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Perhaps it’s not too late for Iron Orchard to make good on her lavish purchase price last fall. Iron Orchard, a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old filly who was purchased for $2.5 million by KatieRich Stables before last October’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, flashed the form that made her so attractive, going gate to wire to win Friday’s $200,000 Fleet Indian Stakes by 12 lengths.

Top Pick Stats: 460/1455 (-$752.60) Best Bets: 56/131 (-$46.00); Spot Plays: 29/134 (-$91.70) Best Bet: TITANIC HANOVER (Race 10) Spot Play: UPTO LAURA HANOVER (Race 7) Early Pick-5: 2,6,7/2/1,3/5,7/1,2$4.80 Late Pick-5: 1,7/2,7/4,7/1,6/3$3.20 Race 1: 4 YEAR OLDS & YOUNGER, NW 1 (WINNERS FOR A PURSE OF $10,750 OR LESS 2 RACES) RACE OR $10,000 LIFETIME. NO ALLOWANCES. (2) DOUNEEDTHEMACHINE got back to form with a tracking trip in her latest. She has improved with each trip around the Mohawk oval.

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A month ago, trainer Michael McCarthy and jockey Umberto Rispoli were expected to be at the center of attention in Saturday’s Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar with the star 4-year-old Journalism. An injury detected after Journalism’s win in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap in July ended his career. Journalism is scheduled to begin a stallion career in Kentucky in 2027. McCarthy and Rispoli are still a team in the $1 million Pacific Classic with the outsider Malarchuk.

Saturday is a day of 2-year-old maidens at Del Mar for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. Baffert has four runners on the program – Babe’s Empire and Motga in a one-mile race, and Furiosity and Sea’s No Joke in a race for 2-year-old fillies at 5 1/2 furlongs. Furiosity, an Into Mischief filly, may be Baffert’s leading chance for a win. She will start from post 6. “Furiosity is extremely quick,” Baffert said earlier this week.