Stakes winner GOLD AND ROSES (Gold Token) has been assigned the highweight of
123 pounds for Wednesday’s $250,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York
Stallion S. series at Saratoga. The dark bay gelding captured the Times Square
division in April and ran second in the New York Derby last out. He’ll have
Edgar Prado in the irons for the first time.
The Tom Bush trainee’s main challenger in the 1 1/8-mile test is GALLOPING
GROCER (A. P Jet), who will try to turn the tables on his rival after running
third in the Times Square division. In his next, and last, start the Dominick
Schettino-trained chestnut finished a distant 13th in the Preakness S. (G1). He
comes into this one off throat surgery for a displaced soft palate.
The complete field for the Cab Calloway, with riders and weights, is MENISCUS
(Raffie’s Majesty), Cornelio Velasquez, 119; WESTERN GALAXY (Western
Expression), Pablo Fragoso, 115; TWOOUTSINTHENINTH (Gold Token), Jara Fernando,
121; Galloping Grocer, John Velazquez, 121; Gold and Roses; BREEZE ON (Brushed
On), Jean-Luc Samyn, 115; and ORGANIZER (Raffie’s Majesty), Eibar Coa, 115.