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Today’s Lock Is At Northfield Park On Race 2

Tuesday’s “Lock” is at Northfield PARK on race 2 with the #1 HydropanenHenry -from 7 hole to rail, was 2nd last 2- Wins tonight-Kurt Sugg drives.

Last “Lock” was off the board and the pick record is at 1543 of 2437 wins with 433 seconds and 166 thirds. Thank you for your support of IdaBet.com!

 

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Today's Tracks

Friday August 21st

  • Fairview (SAf)    6:15am
  • York (UK)    8:50am
  • Newmarket (UK)    9:00am
  • Ffos Las (UK)    9:10am
  • Greyville (SAf)    10:05am
  • Kilbeggan (IRE)    11:25am
  • Killarney (IRE)    11:35am
  • Gulfstream Tropical    12:00pm
  • Laurel Park    12:00pm
  • Hamilton Park (UK)    12:05pm
  • Delaware Park    12:20pm
  • Salisbury (UK)    12:25pm
  • Harrahs Philly (Chester)    12:25pm
  • Belterra Park    12:35pm
  • Woodbine (TB)    1:00pm
  • Saratoga TH    1:10pm
  • Sandy Ridge at Red Mile    1:30pm
  • Century Mile TB    2:00pm
  • Monmouth Park    2:00pm
  • NYRA Cross Country P5    3:30pm
  • Del Mar Pk3    4:00pm
  • Del Mar    5:00pm
  • Charlottetown    5:00pm
  • The Meadows    5:10pm
  • Scioto Downs    5:15pm
  • Hoosier Park (H)    5:30pm
  • Prairie Meadows    6:00pm
  • Tioga Downs    6:15pm
  • Meadowlands (H)    6:20pm
  • Evangeline Downs    6:30pm
  • Woodbine at Mohawk    6:30pm
  • Yonkers Raceway    6:45pm
  • Charles Town    7:00pm
  • Delta Downs    7:15pm
  • Remington Park    7:30pm
  • Retama Park    7:45pm
  • Albuquerque    8:05pm
  • Century Downs H    8:35pm
  • Te Rapa NZ    8:45pm
  • Hastings NZ    9:00pm
  • Doomben AUS TH    9:10pm
  • Randwick AUS TH    9:40pm
  • Morphettville AUS    10:00pm
  • Australia Harness 1    10:00pm
  • Australia Harness 2    10:00pm
  • Ladbrokes Park Hillside AUS    10:30pm
  • Newcastle AUS TH    10:35pm
  • Morphettville Parks AUS    10:40pm
  • Cairns AUS TH    10:40pm
  • Newman AUS TH    11:55pm
  • Seoul Korea    11:55pm
  • Belmont AUS TH    11:55pm

Carryover Information

Carryover Wager Type Track Date
$30,900 PICK 6 DEL MAR Aug 21
$4,368 HI 5 BELTERRA PARK Aug 21
$6,662 JP HI 5 WOODBINE TB Aug 21
$6,935 JP PICK 6 WOODBINE TB Aug 21
$25,424 JP PICK 6 MONMOUTH PARK Aug 21
$53,148 JP PICK 5 PRAIRIE MEADOWS Aug 21
$3,742 JP HI 5 PRAIRIE MEADOWS Aug 21
$661 JP PICK 6 EVANGELINE DOWNS Aug 21
$760 PICK 5 RETAMA PARK Aug 21
$960 PICK 4 SELANGOR Aug 21
$135,691 JP HI 5 WOODBINE MOHAWK Aug 21
$3,402 PICK 6 WOODBINE MOHAWK Aug 21
$4,178 PICK 5 YONKERS RACEWAY Aug 21
$4,561 PICK 4 THE MEADOWS Aug 21
$4,039 PICK 5 THE MEADOWS Aug 21
$14,545 HI 5 THE MEADOWS Aug 21
$1,378 PICK 5 CENTURY DOWNS H Aug 21
$642 PICK 6 HOOSIER PARK Aug 21
$635 HI 5 CHARLOTTETOWN Aug 21
$3,634 JP PICK 6 EMERALD DOWNS Aug 22
$10,791 PICK 9 CAYMANAS PARK Aug 22
$2,284 JP HI 5 SARATOGA HARNESS Aug 22
$6,440 JP PICK 5 RUNNING ACES Aug 23
$4,871 PICK 6 NORTHFIELD PARK Aug 23
$222,725 JP PICK 6 THISTLEDOWN Aug 24
$9,100 JP HI 5 FORT ERIE Aug 24
$40,741 JP PICK 5 PARX RACING Aug 24
$102,466 JP PICK 5 ASSINIBOIA DOWNS Aug 24
$1,844 JP HI 5 PLAINRIDGE Aug 24
$4,887 PICK 5 PENN NATIONAL Aug 26
$4,182 JP HI 5 PENN NATIONAL Aug 26
$96,819* JP PICK 6 CHARLES TOWN Aug 28

Player News

  • Monday’s Lock” is at Northfield Park on race 10 with the #2-Well Intentioned-Has speed and posts to win here-Justin Irvine drives. Last “Lock” broke and was off the board and the pick record is at 1665 of 2636 wins with 459 Seconds and 185 thirds. Thank you for choosing IdaBet.com as your place to ...

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  • Monday’s Lock” is at Northfield Park on race 10 with the #2-Well Intentioned-Has speed and posts to win here-Justin Irvine drives. Last “Lock” broke and was off the board. The pick record is at 1665 of 2636 wins with 459 Seconds and 185 thirds. Thank you for your support of IdaBet.com!

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Sunlit Uplands Keeps Rae Guest Busy In Retirement

Sunlit Uplands Keeps Rae Guest Busy In Retirement

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Thanks to Sunlit Uplands (Ire) (Sands of Mali {Fr}), Rae Guest’s first full year of retirement has been anything but boring.

After completing a career of some 60 years as a jockey and a British-based trainer last fall, Guest and his wife, Rachel Flynn, have been on an international tour with their 4-year-old filly now trained by his longtime friend Stuart Williams. Seven weeks after she secured a group stakes victory, the Hamburg Fillies’ Mile in Germany, Sunlit Uplands has brought them to North America, where she will face seven other fillies and mares in the GII $300,000 Ballston Spa Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

The Ballston Spa, contested at 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course has drawn a field of accomplished stakes runners that includes Juddmonte’s two-time GI winner Segesta (Ghostzapper), trained by Chad Brown, and the top two finishers in last year’s Ballston Spa, Ozara (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and Deep Satin (American Pharoah).

Guest, 76, described the Ballston Spa as the next logical step for the filly’s fourth start of what has been an improving season.

“She’s a stakes winner, and we were looking to upgrade,” Guest said. “She won a Group 3 in Germany, and we wanted to upgrade her stakes performances.”

Sunlit Uplands | Sarah Andrew

Guest did quite well in his lone visit to Saratoga Springs, saddling Rosa Grace (GB) (Lomitas {GB}) for a second-place finish in the 2008 GII Lake Placid. Eighteen years later, he said Saratoga has not changed a great deal.

“That was the first and only time I’ve been here,” he said. “I think it’s a bit more commercial, maybe, but the racetrack, that seems the same with the picnics and everything. That all looks just the same, yeah, and people seemed to love it. We were here Sunday, and it was packed, and everybody was enjoying it.”

Sunlit Uplands started her 2026 campaign at Lingfield in England with a fourth-place finish in the GIII Chartwell Fillies Stakes, a seven-furlong straight test on May 9. Williams said she probably need the race, her first since late November, and didn’t have the best of trips. She registered a better outing on June 7 in Italy, finishing second by 1 3/4 lengths in the one-mile Premio XCVII Royal Mares listed stake at San Siro.

The success in Germany, scampering away to win by three lengths at one mile over yielding turf, led to the trip to Saratoga.

“We thought it was a good idea, and she’s in good form,” Guest said. “Stuart was pointing towards running at this time. It’s a nice adventure.”

The New York Racing Association has recruited European horsemen, Guest said, with the offer to cover some travel expenses if the horse does not finish first or second.

“It’s a good incentive to get people from abroad to come,” he said. “It helps make racing more interesting.”

Indeed, European-based runners have done very well at Saratoga this summer, picking up four wins in GI races and one in a GII. Kensington Lane (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) started things off with a victory in the GI Belmont Oaks on July 4. Two races later on that program, Title Role (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) won the GI Belmont Derby. Title Role subsequently finished third to Glacius (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) in the GI Saratoga Derby on Aug. 8. Michael Tabor’s 5-year-old mare Survie (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) delivered a brilliant stakes double, winning the GII Glens Falls on Aug. 2 and taking the GI Christophe Clement over males on Aug. 15.

Williams did not make the trip to Saratoga, but he will have a very experienced hand covering for him.

“He’s left us in charge,” Guest said, chuckling.

Does that mean the co-owner will handle the saddling of the filly?

“Yeah, well the valets usually do it, don’t they?” Guest said, “but I’ll be there helping.”

There has been a solid Williams connection at Saratoga, though. Williams’s daughter, Sophie Jones, is working for trainer Kenny McPeek, whose stable is about 40 yards from the quarantine barn.

“The whole team has been very helpful,” Guest said, “helping us understand everything.”

Ozara | Sarah Andrew

Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez, with a record five wins in the race, has the mount on Sunlit Uplands, who has competed on nine tracks in four countries and has a 4-3-0 record from 11 starts. She drew Post 2 in the Ballston Spa, just to the outside of Ozara, who won the race last year by 1 1/2 lengths for trainer Miguel Clement. Dylan Davis, who was aboard in the Ballston Spa, returns to the irons.

Live Oak Plantation’s And One More Time, trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, has won five of 10 starts in her career and prepped for the Ballston Spa with a gate-to-wire triumph in the listed De La Rose on July 17 at Saratoga.

Trainer Chad Brown will saddle three runners, Segesta, Flanagan Racing’s Grayosh (Yoshida {Jpn}) and LSU Stable’s Play With Fire (Oscar Performance) in his quest for a record-extending ninth win in the race. Segesta opened her 2026 campaign with a victory in the GI Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, was third by 1 3/4 lengths in the GI Just A Game on June 6 and finished second by a half-length in the GI Diana on July 18.

Guest grew up in a racing family of trainers and jockeys in England and said he has been actively involved in the sport since he was about 15 years old. During a riding career that continued until he turned to training at the age of 40, he said he won 17 Classic races  abroad. His resume includes Triple Crown wins in Scandinavia, India and Holland. Returning to England to ride, he went to work for trainer Luca Cumani and rode horses for him in many top-level races.

Once he made the switch to training full-time, Guest found success with high-quality horses he handled in his yard at Newmarket. Along the way, he had four Group or Grade 1 victories, including the 2010 Nearctic at Woodbine with Serious Attitude (Ire) (Mtoto {GB}).

When Guest decided to step away from the business at the end of 2024, he notified his owners that they would have to move to other trainers. He did continue to handle a few last year, including Sunlit Uplands, who he saddled for the last time on Nov. 20. He said his wife named the horse with an eye toward accomplishment, reaching the reward of retirement, from Sir Winston Churchill’s famous Their Finest Hour speech, the day after France fell to Hitler in 1940: “If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.”

So far, retirement has worked out quite well for Guest and Flynn.

“My wife and I bought some land outside a Newmarket, which we’re going to have horses on. We’re building that up,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of fun with this filly. We’ve been to Milan and Germany with her, and now Saratoga. So, we’re keeping busy and enjoying it.”

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Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’

Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. will remain off his mounts until further notice as he continues to heal from a foot injury suffered in a pre-race incident Aug. 8 at Saratoga.

The report, told to the Daily Racing Form’s Dave Grening by Ortiz Jr’s agent Steve Rushing, continues that Irad breezed a horse Friday morning at Saratoga and “did not feel comfortable”.

The four-time riding champion at the Spa was injured when his 2-year-old second-time starter And The Runner Is (Oscar Performance) acted up in the post parade before reaching the starting gate, resulting in Ortiz Jr. rolling his left ankle.

While it was originally feared that he may have suffered a fracture, further X-rays revealed no break.

Irad’s brother Jose Ortiz will pick up the mount on the heavy favorite Counting Stars (Honor A.P.) in Saturday’s GI Alabama Stakes at Saratoga.

The post Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

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Player News

  • Monday’s Lock” is at Northfield Park on race 10 with the #2-Well Intentioned-Has speed and posts to win here-Justin Irvine drives. Last “Lock” broke and was off the board and the pick record is at 1665 of 2636 wins with 459 Seconds and 185 thirds. Thank you for choosing IdaBet.com as your place to ...

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  • Monday’s Lock” is at Northfield Park on race 10 with the #2-Well Intentioned-Has speed and posts to win here-Justin Irvine drives. Last “Lock” broke and was off the board. The pick record is at 1665 of 2636 wins with 459 Seconds and 185 thirds. Thank you for your support of IdaBet.com!

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Sunlit Uplands Keeps Rae Guest Busy In Retirement

Sunlit Uplands Keeps Rae Guest Busy In Retirement

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Thanks to Sunlit Uplands (Ire) (Sands of Mali {Fr}), Rae Guest’s first full year of retirement has been anything but boring.

After completing a career of some 60 years as a jockey and a British-based trainer last fall, Guest and his wife, Rachel Flynn, have been on an international tour with their 4-year-old filly now trained by his longtime friend Stuart Williams. Seven weeks after she secured a group stakes victory, the Hamburg Fillies’ Mile in Germany, Sunlit Uplands has brought them to North America, where she will face seven other fillies and mares in the GII $300,000 Ballston Spa Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

The Ballston Spa, contested at 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course has drawn a field of accomplished stakes runners that includes Juddmonte’s two-time GI winner Segesta (Ghostzapper), trained by Chad Brown, and the top two finishers in last year’s Ballston Spa, Ozara (Lope de Vega {Ire}) and Deep Satin (American Pharoah).

Guest, 76, described the Ballston Spa as the next logical step for the filly’s fourth start of what has been an improving season.

“She’s a stakes winner, and we were looking to upgrade,” Guest said. “She won a Group 3 in Germany, and we wanted to upgrade her stakes performances.”

Sunlit Uplands | Sarah Andrew

Guest did quite well in his lone visit to Saratoga Springs, saddling Rosa Grace (GB) (Lomitas {GB}) for a second-place finish in the 2008 GII Lake Placid. Eighteen years later, he said Saratoga has not changed a great deal.

“That was the first and only time I’ve been here,” he said. “I think it’s a bit more commercial, maybe, but the racetrack, that seems the same with the picnics and everything. That all looks just the same, yeah, and people seemed to love it. We were here Sunday, and it was packed, and everybody was enjoying it.”

Sunlit Uplands started her 2026 campaign at Lingfield in England with a fourth-place finish in the GIII Chartwell Fillies Stakes, a seven-furlong straight test on May 9. Williams said she probably need the race, her first since late November, and didn’t have the best of trips. She registered a better outing on June 7 in Italy, finishing second by 1 3/4 lengths in the one-mile Premio XCVII Royal Mares listed stake at San Siro.

The success in Germany, scampering away to win by three lengths at one mile over yielding turf, led to the trip to Saratoga.

“We thought it was a good idea, and she’s in good form,” Guest said. “Stuart was pointing towards running at this time. It’s a nice adventure.”

The New York Racing Association has recruited European horsemen, Guest said, with the offer to cover some travel expenses if the horse does not finish first or second.

“It’s a good incentive to get people from abroad to come,” he said. “It helps make racing more interesting.”

Indeed, European-based runners have done very well at Saratoga this summer, picking up four wins in GI races and one in a GII. Kensington Lane (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) started things off with a victory in the GI Belmont Oaks on July 4. Two races later on that program, Title Role (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) won the GI Belmont Derby. Title Role subsequently finished third to Glacius (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) in the GI Saratoga Derby on Aug. 8. Michael Tabor’s 5-year-old mare Survie (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) delivered a brilliant stakes double, winning the GII Glens Falls on Aug. 2 and taking the GI Christophe Clement over males on Aug. 15.

Williams did not make the trip to Saratoga, but he will have a very experienced hand covering for him.

“He’s left us in charge,” Guest said, chuckling.

Does that mean the co-owner will handle the saddling of the filly?

“Yeah, well the valets usually do it, don’t they?” Guest said, “but I’ll be there helping.”

There has been a solid Williams connection at Saratoga, though. Williams’s daughter, Sophie Jones, is working for trainer Kenny McPeek, whose stable is about 40 yards from the quarantine barn.

“The whole team has been very helpful,” Guest said, “helping us understand everything.”

Ozara | Sarah Andrew

Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez, with a record five wins in the race, has the mount on Sunlit Uplands, who has competed on nine tracks in four countries and has a 4-3-0 record from 11 starts. She drew Post 2 in the Ballston Spa, just to the outside of Ozara, who won the race last year by 1 1/2 lengths for trainer Miguel Clement. Dylan Davis, who was aboard in the Ballston Spa, returns to the irons.

Live Oak Plantation’s And One More Time, trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, has won five of 10 starts in her career and prepped for the Ballston Spa with a gate-to-wire triumph in the listed De La Rose on July 17 at Saratoga.

Trainer Chad Brown will saddle three runners, Segesta, Flanagan Racing’s Grayosh (Yoshida {Jpn}) and LSU Stable’s Play With Fire (Oscar Performance) in his quest for a record-extending ninth win in the race. Segesta opened her 2026 campaign with a victory in the GI Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, was third by 1 3/4 lengths in the GI Just A Game on June 6 and finished second by a half-length in the GI Diana on July 18.

Guest grew up in a racing family of trainers and jockeys in England and said he has been actively involved in the sport since he was about 15 years old. During a riding career that continued until he turned to training at the age of 40, he said he won 17 Classic races  abroad. His resume includes Triple Crown wins in Scandinavia, India and Holland. Returning to England to ride, he went to work for trainer Luca Cumani and rode horses for him in many top-level races.

Once he made the switch to training full-time, Guest found success with high-quality horses he handled in his yard at Newmarket. Along the way, he had four Group or Grade 1 victories, including the 2010 Nearctic at Woodbine with Serious Attitude (Ire) (Mtoto {GB}).

When Guest decided to step away from the business at the end of 2024, he notified his owners that they would have to move to other trainers. He did continue to handle a few last year, including Sunlit Uplands, who he saddled for the last time on Nov. 20. He said his wife named the horse with an eye toward accomplishment, reaching the reward of retirement, from Sir Winston Churchill’s famous Their Finest Hour speech, the day after France fell to Hitler in 1940: “If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.”

So far, retirement has worked out quite well for Guest and Flynn.

“My wife and I bought some land outside a Newmarket, which we’re going to have horses on. We’re building that up,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of fun with this filly. We’ve been to Milan and Germany with her, and now Saratoga. So, we’re keeping busy and enjoying it.”

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Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’

Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. will remain off his mounts until further notice as he continues to heal from a foot injury suffered in a pre-race incident Aug. 8 at Saratoga.

The report, told to the Daily Racing Form’s Dave Grening by Ortiz Jr’s agent Steve Rushing, continues that Irad breezed a horse Friday morning at Saratoga and “did not feel comfortable”.

The four-time riding champion at the Spa was injured when his 2-year-old second-time starter And The Runner Is (Oscar Performance) acted up in the post parade before reaching the starting gate, resulting in Ortiz Jr. rolling his left ankle.

While it was originally feared that he may have suffered a fracture, further X-rays revealed no break.

Irad’s brother Jose Ortiz will pick up the mount on the heavy favorite Counting Stars (Honor A.P.) in Saturday’s GI Alabama Stakes at Saratoga.

The post Irad Ortiz Jr. To Remain Off Mounts ‘Until Further Notice’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

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