She did it! CLASSIC Q impressively runs them off their feet in the Just A Game S. (G1) on @BelmontStakes day at Saratoga, getting the mile in a blazing 1:32.84 and becoming the newest G1-winning #EclipseFilly!
Congratulations to our #EclipseFamily, partners Gary Barber & Blue Crevalle Racing, Team @markecasse and @ljlmvel 👏👏
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A classic performance from CLASSIC Q!
She earns her first Grade 1 victory in the Just a Game Stakes pres. by @resracingky with @ljlmvel aboard for trainer @markecasse.
Eclipse: The highest honor in our sport.
Thoroughbred: Because it all starts with the horse.
Partners: The people who make the dream possible.
Best wishes to our partners competing on one of racing’s biggest stages today at Saratoga @TheNYRA.
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🏆 Using her speed from the outside gate, Roja (Karakontie @Gainesway) made the lead and never looked back in the GII Intercontinental Stakes at Saratoga on Thursday afternoon.
O: @EclipseTBP and @MadaketStables LLC
T: Graham Motion @HerringswellStb
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ROJA redlined her way to victory in the $250,000 Intercontinental S. (G2) at the @BelmontStakes Racing Festival at Saratoga @TheNYRA, blazing 5 1/2 furlongs under @iradortiz in 1:00.44 — just .64 seconds shy of Cogburn’s course record 🔥
Trained by Graham Motion, the score marks the 6th graded stakes victory already in 2026 for our incredible #EclipseFillies 🙌 @MadaketStables
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🗞️ Journalism at the Spa! 🗽
It was during this time last year that JOURNALISM (Curlin) closed out his Triple Crown race campaign with a runner-up finish to Sovereignty in the GI @BelmontStakes at Saratoga Race Course.
This year, the multiple Grade I-winning @mwmracing trainee faces a different kind of test as he returns to New York for Saturday's GI Metropolitan Handicap which boasts a very strong field, including 'TDN Rising Star' Nysos.
"We liked the timing of the Oaklawn Park Handicap, thought he ran a very solid race, and all indications are that he will move forward off the effort," said @AronWellman7 of @EclipseTBP.
Following his third-place finish in the GII Oaklawn Handicap, Journalism returned to California, worked three times at Santa Anita Park and was shipped to Saratoga on May 27. He breezed a half-mile in :49.27 on the Saturday morning with Amelia Green aboard.
In what could be his final visit to Saratoga, Journalism will take on experienced top-quality runners with the added challenge of shortening up to eight furlongs for first time since he broke his maiden in November 2024. The Met Mile drew a field of seven, with Journalism drawing post seven.
Read more via @MKane49: https://t.co/BauCIXF0Mw
SPEED SHOPPER breezed a half-mile in 47.80 at @ChurchillDowns, finishing through the bridle for @wwaldenracing.
A multiple GSW this year, the #EclipseFilly comes off an impressive win in @keenelandracing’s Bewitch (G3) last month and has earned her way into the starting gate for next Friday’s G1 New York Stakes at Saratoga @TheNYRA. @jockeyfranco will ride from post 3. 👏 @BridlewoodFarm1
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MEANING put the finishing touches on her preparations for next Friday’s G1 Acorn S. at @TheNYRA, breezing an easy half-mile this morning in :49 flat for @mwmracing.
The Kentucky Oaks runner-up has continued to train forwardly at @ChurchillDowns since that effort, and is all-systems-go for her travels tomorrow to Saratoga where the #EclipseFilly will team up again with @JJHernandezS19. 👏 @BridlewoodFarm1
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