Miguel Clement<\/a>. If anything, it gets him pumped up.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a terrific horse,\u201d Clement said. \u201cHe was probably left a little undercooked for his last race. He won based off pure grit and class. I think he has stepped forward since then, so this is just exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Deterministic\u2019s last four races \u2014 all won in determined fashion \u2014 have been front-running graded stakes victories that date back to when Miguel Clement\u2019s late father, Christophe Clement, was still his primary trainer. The son of Liam\u2019s Map continues to improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s doing spectacularly well,\u201d Miguel Clement said. \u201cIt is a great race, but he\u2019s doing as good as he could be.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the shortened 2025 edition, Integration closed furiously down the center of the track only to be held off by a head while fellow Clement trainee Far Bridge, wedged closely between the pair for third.<\/p>\n
It was a thrill worthy of the extra day of waiting, but there remains business that\u2019s unfinished.<\/p>\n
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McGaughey and Motion each enter a pair<\/p>\n
Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey is sending Integration (12-1) back for a shot at the Manhattan\u2019s traditional distance, seeking revenge and bringing a stablemate with him.<\/p>\n
Battle of Normandy comes in looking for his first win in two years despite strong back-to-back efforts in recent Grade 3 races. He\u2019ll break from the No. 9 post with morning-line odds of 20-1 and Dylan Davis aboard.<\/p>\n
Graham Motion sends out his own pair that will be primed and ready to go but still have plenty to prove. South African Grade 1 headbanger One Stripe (6-1) and Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational victor Test Score (12-1) are both exiting Grade 1 defeats and neither has yet won at a mile and three-sixteenths.<\/p>\n
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Lightly raced favorite is the one to beat<\/p>\n
All eyes will be on morning-line favorite Rhetorical, who will open up at 2-1 odds with a resume that shows he likes to run at Saratoga and is in top form coming out of his Kentucky Derby undercard win by more than three lengths.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought his last race was obviously really impressive,\u201d trainer Will Walden said. \u201cHe was able to get out there and take a deep breath and relax, which is key for him. Obviously, stretching out was not an issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the last race was an extra sixteenth longer or an extra quarter-mile, he still would\u2019ve won.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He\u2019ll stretch out a bit longer Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan is slated as the day\u2019s 12th race with a post time of 6:11 p.m. The field is rounded out by Wathnan Racing\u2019s French-bred Make Me King (8-1), fellow France-born Bright Picture (3-1), and Barclay Tagg\u2019s longshot runner Tiz Dashing (30-1) in the No. 1 post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trainer Miguel Clement gives orders to his exercise riders during training hours at the Oklahoma Training Center adjacent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[100156,844,610,75,84,83,9,24,63,31841,319],"class_list":["post-257051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-college-union","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sarco","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}