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Summer Breezes: West Point Represented On Either Coast

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits.

Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. To follow are the horses entered for Saturday at Saratoga and Del Mar. Qualifying horses entered for the cards cancelled at Ellis Park July 28 and 29 will appear July 31 and August 1, respectively:

Saturday, July 29, 2023
Saratoga 1, $136k, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:10 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze
Carson's Run (Cupid), OBSAPR, 170,000, :10.1
Consignor: Randy Miles, agent
Buyer: West Point Thoroughbreds, L.E.B., agent
Corruption (Medaglia d'Oro), OBSAPR, 220,000, :10.1
Consignor: Kings Equine, Agent for Spendthrift Farm LLC
Buyer: Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
Moonlight (Audible), OBSAPR, 285,000, :21
Consignor: Eddie Woods, agent
Buyer: Town & Country Racing LLC

Del Mar 1, 2yo, $82k, 5 1/2f, 5:00 p.m. ET
Flight Way (Not This Time), OBSAPR, 140,000, :10.1
Consignor: Wavertree Stables Inc (Ciaran Dunne), agent
Buyer: Dennis O'Neill, agent for Fortune Racing
Invincible (Uncle Mo), FTMMAY, 375,000, see below
Consignor: Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, agent
Buyer: Steve Rothblum, agent for Mark Davis
Slider (Jimmy Creed), OBSAPR, 240,000, :9.4
Consignor: Marcial Galan, agent
Buyer: West Point Thoroughbreds, L.E.B., agent

Del Mar 5, $82k, 2yo, f, 1mT, 7:00 p.m. ET
Wok Don't Run (Runhappy), OBSAPR, 85,000, :10.2
Consignor: Grade One Investments, agent
Buyer: Zap Murphy for California Racing Partners/Ciaglia

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Delaware Joins Growing List Of Track Cancellations Due To Heat

Joining an ever-growing list of tracks to cancel their programs to start the weekend, Delaware Park will follow suit and reschedule their Saturday live racing card due to the excessive heat forecasted for the region, the track said in a release Friday.

Acting upon the recommendation of the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission (DTRC) veterinarians, the entire July 29 live racing card will be transferred to Friday, Aug. 4. The national weather service has predicted temperatures in the 90s with a heat index of value approaching the mid-100s. Live racing is scheduled to resume on Wednesday, August 2nd. First race post time is 12:30 p.m. E.T.

Elsewhere out of an abundance of caution, Woodbine Racetrack outside of Toronto cancelled its Thursday and Friday slate. The Mid-Atlantic heat caused Laurel Park to move its Friday card, while Ellis Park in Kentucky will shift its Friday and Saturday programs to Monday and Tuesday of next week. Belterra Park in Cincinnati, Ohio also scratched its Friday racing and Colonial Downs, which announced it was cancelling its Friday card Wednesday, additionally postponed its Saturday card.

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2023 Bing Crosby Stakes at a Glance

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Weaver Looking For No Nay Mets To Bounce Back From Ascot In Sunday’s Tyro Stakes At Monmouth

George Weaver didn't get the result he was looking for when he shipped No Nay Mets overseas to race at Ascot last month but the veteran trainer hasn't lost any confidence in the freshman turf sprinter.

To that end, he will send out the son of No Nay Never – possibly along with Please Advise – in Sunday's $100,000 Tyro Stakes for 2-year-olds at five furlongs on the grass at Monmouth Park.

No Nay Mets, bred in Ireland by Coolmore and co-owned by Houston Astros' third baseman Alex Bregman, won his career debut by 3½ lengths in the Royal Palm Juvenile Stakes at Gulfstream Park before Weaver decided to test the son of No Nay Never during the prestigious Royal Ascot meet in England on June 22. No Nay Mets finished ninth in a field of 14, beaten 7¼ lengths.

A full field of 14, along with two also eligible possibilities, has entered the 82nd running of the Tyro Stakes.

“He's precocious,” said Weaver. “We won a stakes with him first time out and went to Ascot. Things didn't go the way we wanted but there was a little give in the ground and he wasn't on the best part of the turf.

“He wasn't beat a lot so it wasn't a complete embarrassment. He has bounced back well in training and this is the next logical step.”

Weaver said that No Nay Mets, who has been working at Saratoga in advance of his return to the races, is in for turf only.

Paco Lopez, Monmouth Park's leading rider, has the mount.

Weaver has yet to name a rider for Please Advise, who was a first-out winner at five furlongs on the turf at Belmont Park on June 22, in large part because he is uncertain about whether the son of Palace Malice will make the starting gate on Sunday.

“I'm not 100 percent sure of what I'm doing with him,” said Weaver. “I want to see how things shake out. He broke his maiden pretty easily so we've got to make a decision. We'll do that Saturday.”

Seven of the 14 horses entered in the main body of the Tyro are 1-for-1 lifetime. A total of eight will be trying turf for the first time, which is something Weaver does not have to worry about with either of his colts.

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