Spirited Boss

Three of this week's six fastest ran at Laurel on the Preakness weekend undercard. 6 - BENEDETTA, LRL, 5/16, Skipat Stakes R4, 6 furlongs (video) Beyer Speed Figure- 90 (2nd) (m, 5, by City of Light--Tessie Flip, by Grand Slam) O-Kaleem Shah Inc. B-Springhouse Farm & Dromoland Farm (Ky). T-Steve Asmussen. J-Jose Ortiz. Benedetta hasn't earned back her $750,000 2-year-old purchase price, but this runnerup finish puts her at $645,550. Her residual value is boosted by placings in the GIII Winning Colors and GIII Sorrento, but she has mostly been...

Topping the list (technically it's at the bottom) are the 1-2-3 finishers from Keeneland's Madison Stakes, deeper in quality than any race so far this year. 6--MUNNINGS EXPRESS, AQU, Apr 4--WON, 6 1/2 furlongs Beyer Speed Figure--90 (video) (f, 4, Munnings--Freudie Anne, by Freud) O-Team Spoor; B-Fergus Galvin, Marc Detampel, Jayne Johnson & Adrian Wallace (NY); T-Linda Rice; J-Jose Lezcano. Aqueduct's runaway leading trainer Rice stuffed the entry box with 11 runners on Wood Memorial day and came away with four winners, including Richard Spoor's ascending New York-bred filly who...

Gainesway Stable and LNJ Foxwoods' rail-drawn Make Haste (GB) (Blue Point {Ire}), a gate to wire winner in her last race (an allowance at Gulfstream), will look to take this field in similar fashion for trainer Miguel Clement in the GIII Coronation Cup at Saratoga Friday. A debut winner and stakes-placed in Ireland, this filly has never gone further than five furlongs and will have to pick up the extra half-furlong Friday but showed no signs of stopping at Gulfstream for the late Christophe Clement, hitting the wire going away...