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Thoughts Body And, ending the size with every of the primary two conferences, Sierra Leone drew a publish adjoining to a discipline of 9 horses for Sunday’s Grade 1 million {dollars} Jockey Membership Gold Cup In Saratoga.
The entry was filmed on Wednesday at a 1 1/4 mile race. That is aimed on the winner of the Sierra Leone Drew 3 at Del Mar on November 1, and the Breeders’ Cup Traditional berth, which was $7 million in Thoughts Body Submit 4 in fifth place in 14 races on the cardboard. Posting time is 1:45pm.
Derosa: Jockey Membership Gold Cup Honest Odds.
Mindframe, the four-year-old structure educated by Todd Pletcher, is 3-3 this yr, profitable the Gulfstream Park Mile (G2), the 7 Furlong Churchill Downs Stakes (G1), and most lately Stephen Foster (G1) on the 1/eighth mile. Within the June twenty eighth race at Churchill, Mindframe held again a gradual rally by runner-up Sierra Leone.
In his solely earlier begin at Saratoga, Mindframe led in residence stretches, ending second within the 2024 Belmont Stakes to Dornock simply earlier than Sierra Leone. That race lined the identical 10 furlongs because the Jockey Membership Gold Cup.
House owners Mike Repore and Vinny Viola earn $1,844,580, with Mindframe using Irad Ortiz Jr as soon as once more.
Gunrunner Colt Sierra Leone confirmed off his signature deep closure fashion on August 2nd. It was his first victory since he scored within the Breeders’ Cup Traditional final fall.
4-year-old Sierra Leone, educated by Chad Brown’s homeowners Peter Brant, Coolmore, Westerberg and Brook Smith, has earned $6,806,200. He will probably be paired once more with Jockey Flavian Pratt.
Brown additionally entered the other ideas of Blunt’s five-year-old molt, efficiently finishing his mission as Whitney’s Sierra Leone’s pacemaking rabbit. He goes with Dylan Davis from Submit 6.
White Arario, who gained the 2023 Breeders’ Cup Traditional, will try to rebound from a fourth-place end at Saratoga on June seventh at each the Met Mile (G1) and Whitney. The race day horse educated by Saffie Joseph Jr. and ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. started in 2025 at Gulfstream Park with the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) and Ghostzapper (G3).
White Arario, a $7,091,920 maker owned by Gary Barber, C2 Racing Secure and La Milagrosa Secure, begins Sunday from Submit 5.
Brad Cox-trained defending winner Highland Falls positioned second in Whitney this month for Sierra Leone. Throughout Godolphin’s homebread, which earned $1,512,660, he completed ninth within the Breeders’ Cup Traditional, profitable the top-level one-mile allowance race at Aqueduct Meet in Belmont in June. Highland Falls, Carlin’s 5-year-old complete, is on the Submit 2 Louis Saes.
The highest two suburban (G2) finishers additionally featured finishers and Antiklian, who had been additionally concerned, as had been the disarming of Whitney’s third-place finishers and Charlestown Traditional (G2) Victor Babising on Friday.
Every horse carries 126 kilos in a gold cup from the Jockey Membership. David Aragona’s morning line will probably be posted later.
| no. | silk | Horse / sire | analysis | Coach/Jockey | The ultimate begin | state of affairs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disarming Gun Runner | 7.81 | Steve Asmussen Joel Rosario | Third, 2025 Whitney G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | Third, 2025 Whitney G1 | |||||
| 2 | Highland Falls Carlin | 7.86 | Brad Cox Luis Saes | Second, 2025 Whitney G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | Second, 2025 Whitney G1 | |||||
| 3 | Sierra Leone Gun Runner | 7.91 | Chad Brown Flavien Plat | 1st, 2025 Whitney G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | 1st, 2025 Whitney G1 | |||||
| 4 | Thoughts Body Constitutional Regulation | 7.91 | Todd Plecher IRAD ORTIZ JR. | 1st, 2025 Stephen Foster G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | 1st, 2025 Stephen Foster G1 | |||||
| 5 | White Arario Race day | 7.87 | Saffie Joseph Jr. Ricardo Santana Jr. | 4th, 2025 Whitney G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | 4th, 2025 Whitney G1 | |||||
| 6 | Reverse ideas Naughty | 5.79 | Chad Brown Dylan Davis | ninth, 2025 Whitney G1 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | ninth, 2025 Whitney G1 | |||||
| 7 | Phyllis Fogg astern | 7.44 | Gustavo Rodriguez Kendrick Carmouche | 1st, 2025 Suburban G2 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | 1st, 2025 Suburban G2 | |||||
| 8 | vintage Preservationist | 7.19 | Todd Plecher John Bellazukes | Second, 2025 Suburban G2 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | Second, 2025 Suburban G2 | |||||
| 9 | Exile Ghostzapper | 7.02 | David Jacobson Jose Rezcano | 1st, 2025 Charlestown Traditional G2 | enter | |
| The ultimate race | 1st, 2025 Charlestown Traditional G2 | |||||
