8/3-4 (SAR): Whitney (G1), De La Rose; Vanderbilt (G1)
 

9th (5:12) De La Rose S.

1 Mile (Inner turf) | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Open Water Rocco J S Jr 116 L
2 Sweet Little Lion Rosario J 123 L
3 Laugh Out Loud (GB) Castellano J J 116 FTL
4 Assateague Saez L 116 L
5 Baffle Me Ortiz I Jr 116 L
6 Ruthenia Lezcano J 123 L
7 Embarr Morales P 123 L
8 Miss Montreal Velazquez J R 116 L



10th (5:45) Whitney Invitational H. (G1)

1 1/8 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $750,000

1 Successful Dan Leparoux J R 118 L
2 Mucho Macho Man Prado E S 119 L
3 Fort Larned Hernandez B J Jr 122 L
4 Cross Traffic Velazquez J R 117 L
5 Ron the Greek Lezcano J 118 L
6 Alpha Rosario J 115 L
7 Csaba Saez L 114 L
8 Fast Falcon Alvarado J 114 L

That's a tremendous group!

Salty and Serious!.......nice bunch

I cant recall Successful Dans form but looks like a 2 horse race to me between cross traffic and fort larned.

Mucho Macho Man and Ron the Greek are no slouches...

They can both be wildly inconsistent.

Absolutely, but either of them could win this thing too. Heck, I wouldn't even count Fast Falcon out of it.

I dont like Macho at all. I think he is finished. Greeks best race can win, especially if this thing falls apart late and it could if the 2 chalks have 2 hook up.
Falcon is dangerous. Zito is always dangerous in these spots. But now the 2 chalks will run 1-2 around the track.

I'm a huge Cross Traffic fan, but he may be too fast early to beat this quality of field going two turns.

Hard not to be a fan of him. He just keeps throwing bang up races. Fort Learned figures to be all over him right from the start. Should be fun.

Wow that is a nice field!

A good rule of thumb for Fort Larned: bet him if he's not favored, but go against him when he is favored. Money burner last 3 times he's been favored, including twice at odds on. But when he's overlooked, he's dangerous. Seen that he's 7-5 on the morning line, it looks like time to go against him.

I think Cross Traffic can go off the post time favorite.

Cross Traffic can definitely win the race, but I'd be surprised if he went off at lower odds than Fort Larned. Although he's been very impressive, he hasn't run beyond a mile while FL not only won last year's Whitney, he won last year's BC Classic and is coming off a 116 Beyer.

Steve, any reason why Fast Bullet is not in the Vanderbilt? I see that he is working every week at Del Mar. Would have been quite a race with him included...

I know they talked about him coming for the Forego with Paynter (Woodward)..

SUNDAY 9th (5:12) Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G1)

6 Furlongs | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $400,000

1 Bahamian Squall Saez L 119 L
2 Gentlemen's Bet Rosario J 116 L
3 Delaunay Napravnik R 120 L
4 Justin Phillip Velazquez J R 118 L
5 Caixa Eletronica Castellano J J 116 L

Amazingly, he has worked 6 times since his last start and still is not ready.

Caixa on short rest...You have to love this horse

400k and 5 horses

Is it not Justin Phillip's turn. Love this horse, just like to put him in my back yard.

Not to mention a G1 at SPA on your resume

Fast Bullet not running here is a total joke.

I would imagine he is hurt again

Gentleman's Bet is entered in a stake at Mountaineer on Saturday, so the Vanderbilt could be down to 4 runners.

No. He's running here.

I'll be cheering Caixa on from Mountaineer!!

Someone should pick up Googleado as a rabbit.

His horse came up short, but Rocco is doing a great job this meet of giving his horse a great trip up the rail.

A 10-year-old winning at 'Toga today. How cool is that?

Successful Dan and Alpha taking quite a bit of $$. Someone must know something I don't...I tossed 'em both from the trifecta. Anytime a Kiaran horse gets bet down, it makes me think twice.

Successful Dan reared and fell on his back going out on the track...

and still ge5s second! glad he's ok!

not sure what to think of fort larned

It make me gasp watching it. He pretty much just pitched his jockey and crashed. You know the fear is always that they hit their head. That had to do something to him, and the fact that he did as well as he did after that was impressive. Wonder what caused the spook.

Of recent times, Invasor and Sun King battling to the wire is still my favorite Whitney Stakes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XiQnVrzj0c

Was bet all the way down to 7/2 before that, then back up to about 6/1 I assume after the flipout.

i'm partial to the personal ensign whitney.

Awesome! :tro: One of those races where I was really happy I pushed through the crowd to get on the finish line. :D