Saturday’s full-card Saratoga and selected Haskell (G1) Day report had Pope Jude fans cashing lots of tickets. Standout ENGLISH CASTLE ($3.40) got the party started in the second race while coupling with Oat Coutour for a $14.00 exacta. BOSUN ($6.40) followed in the third with bad boy RHETORICAL ($3.00) running a big one in the fifth. EMPHASIS ($12.60) took the seventh over Growth Equity for the exacta ($52.00) and favored Stradale for a ($25.50) 50-cent trifecta. FUTURE IS NOW ($6.40) captured the ninth and then SCOTTISH LASSIE ($6.70) blew the doors off heavily favored Immersive in the CCA (G1) for a $9.50 exacta. BOOK’EM DANNO ($4.80) won the Vanderbilt (G2) with Mullikin second for a chalky $6.70 exacta. ROOKIE CARD ($19.40) took the nightcap and capped off $109.37 Late Pick Four.
At Monmouth, SURFACE TO AIR ($41.40) won the Monmouth Cup (G3) and combined with the big favorite Just a Touch for a $63.60 exacta. RANDOMIZED ($6.00) won the tough Molly Pitcher (G3) and JOURNALISM ($2.80) reprised his Preakness (G1) running down of Gosger in the Haskell (G1) for a $11.80 exacta, with Goal Oriented third for a $6.40 50-cent tri.