Author: Frank Vespe

Report: Green Gratto retired, again

Ten-year-old Green Gratto, a onetime Grade 1 winner, ran last in his return to action and promptly was retired, the Daily Racing Form retported.

Grade 1 winner Green Gratto, a millionaire New Jersey-bred, hasn’t raced for over two years but is entered for a $20,000 tag at Monmouth Park Sunday.

Pennsylvania’s top two races, the Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion, will not be contested in 2020, the track announced this week.

Which Midlantic trainers have been en fuego since the end of the coronavirus breaks? We wondered the same thing, and here are the answers.

With the Maryland State Fair as we have known looking unlikely, the Timonium race meet will not occur, those days being run instead at Laurel Park.