Mark Casse was absent from the paddock to saddle Fetching in the sixth race Sunday at Saratoga Race Course as the trainer was glued to a TV monitor to watch 2-year-old Capture The Genie break her maiden at Gulfstream Park at 3:57 p.m. At 4:05, Casse doubled up on the day as Fetching scored in the 1 1/8-mile turf allowance.
About an hour before the horses entered the starting gate for the Coronation Cup Stakes Sunday at Saratoga, owner Richard Klein enjoyed time with friends outside Shake Shack near the paddock. Klein felt a tickling at the top of his head and reaching for its source, found a ladybug had landed on him.
The task that faced the two would-be upsetter of Chad Brown’s four-cornered entry in Saturday’s Diana Stakes looked difficult at best.
Guinness McFadden kept saying the same thing.
A hockey player referred to a football field at a racetrack.
Alarm clocks buzzed, rang, blared and dinged early today in upstate New York, ushering in the earliest start to the Saratoga Race Course meeting in well over a century.
