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Triple Crown News Minute Presented By Kentucky Equine Research: Blue Grass In July

If anything is stranger in American horse racing than a Kentucky Derby in September, it's a Blue Grass Stakes in July. But that's where we find ourselves in this year of the coronavirus pandemic: nothing is normal, and we're grateful that racing, unlike most other sports, has been able to continue along a slightly erratic path.

The Grade 2 Blue Grass, with a $600,000 purse, is run at its traditional 1 1/8 miles and will offer 100-40-20-10 qualifying points for the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby. It's drawn a field of 13, including a well-traveled filly, multiple graded stakes winner Swiss Skydiver from the barn of Kenny McPeek. She's run at five different tracks in her five starts this year, winning her last three.

In this edition of the Triple Crown News Minute, Ray Paulick and news editor Chelsea Hackbarth take a look at the leading contenders in the Blue Grass,including the up-and-coming Art Collector, a 3-year-old by Bernardini making his return to graded stakes following a pair of impressive allowance victories at Churchill Downs.

They also analyze the field for the G1 Ashland Stakes, a qualifying points race for the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks. Despite only drawing a field of six, the Ashland Stakes has a solid field of contenders ready to take on the 6-5 morning line favorite, Venetian Harbor.

Watch the latest Triple Crown News Minute below:

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Battle Brewing in GI Maker’s Mark Mile

A trio of top-rung winners head a field of nine in Friday’s feature at Keeneland, the GI Maker’s Mark Mile S. Leading the fray is Raging Bull (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who most recently marked his seasonal debut with a victory in the GI Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita May 25. A three-time graded winner in 2018, including Del Mar’s GI Hollywood Derby, the French-bred hit the board in three of five starts last term, including a second in the GI Fourstardave H. at Saratoga in August followed by a third-place finish, after being moved up via DQ, in the GI Woodbine Mile in September. Accompanied by Joel Rosario, Raging Bull is trained by Chad Brown, who is also represented by G1 St James’s Palace S. hero Without Parole (GB) (Frankel {GB}).

Winless in eight starts since that career-high performance in 2018, the Gunther family homebred–third to stablemate Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) in last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Mile–most recently finished third in the Shoemaker Mile. Throwing in an interesting twist is the Classic-winning War of Will (War Front). Trained by Mark Casse, the annexed the GIII Lecomte S. and GII Risen S. at the Fair Grounds last winter before going on to take the GI Preakness S. later that spring. On the board in one of four starts after that effort, recorded in the GI Pennsylvania Derby, the Gary Barber-owned colt returned in 2020 with a fifth-place finish in the Shoemaker Mile.

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Consignor Arrested, Charged With Narcotic Possession With Intent To Distribute

John “Quincy” Adams, 51 of Morriston, Fla., was arrested in early June in Ocala and hit with multiple felony charges related to narcotics possession with intent to distribute. On the final day of the breeze show for the OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, Adams was pulled over as part of a traffic stop about five miles from the sale grounds.

According to a redacted police report provided to the Paulick Report this week, Ocala Police Department officers received consent to search Adams' truck, where they found one and a half pills Adams identified as Xanax, as well as a glass pipe and small baggies of various substances.

According to the report, Adams told the officers that he sells narcotics and that he does not have a valid prescription for Xanax.

Field tests conducted on the substances were positive for 2.5 grams of cocaine, 3 grams of crystal methamphetamine, and 1 gram of fentanyl.

Adams was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of controlled substance in a vehicle, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of amphetamine with intent to sell, and possession of heroin with intent to sell, the latter four all being felonies. He was arraigned on the morning of July 7, according to Florida's digital database for the Marion County Circuit Court.

Adams has enjoyed success in the Thoroughbred auction market as a pinhooker, and began selling 2-year-olds under his Q Bar J Thoroughbreds banner in 2017.

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