Quality Road favorite in Woodward at Saratoga
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Quality Road is the favorite to win the $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday.
Quality Road suffered his first defeat of the season by Blame in the Whitney Handicap this summer at Saratoga.
Beginning the season with three victories - including the prestigious, Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park and Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont - the 4-year-old was ranked the nation's leading older male. That honor is now held by Blame, who isn't among seven entered in the 1 1/8-mile Woodward.
Quality Road is an overwhelming 1-4 morning line favorite. John Velazquez will be aboard.
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