Victory Ride

Echo Sound need one ping--and one ping only--to know when it was time to zero in on her target, and the result was run silent, run deep in the GIII Victory Ride Stakes at Saratoga on what was a Thursday opening day. Near perfect across a five-race career, Echo Sound debuted a winner last summer at Ellis Park and then cleared an optional claimer at Churchill Downs in early September. The bay won the Myrtlewood Stakes at Keeneland in late October before she was beaten by 2 1/2 lengths in...

Australasia (Sky Kingdom) looks to take her record to seven-for-seven and score her first graded win Saturday in Belmont's GIII Victory Ride S. The dark bay dominated her fellow Louisiana-breds with four straight wins--three of which were stakes--by a combined 24 1/4 lengths. Scoring her first win against open company on the GI Kentucky Oaks undercard May 1, she rallied to victory in the local Jersey Girl S. June 6. Bella Sofia (Awesome Patriot) completed the exacta in the Jersey Girl after running away to an 11 1/4-length graduation on...