Courtlandt Farm/Graham Motion
My Saratoga angle - betting Courtlandt Farm/Graham Motion horses (Adriano, TD Vance, Loconia, Indescribable) - went up in smoke as Don Adam moved  his horses from Motion to Bill Mott. This was very surprising given Motion's success with his horses.

He took all 12 of his horses away. It’s very disappointing, but I’m starting to recover. I’ll be sick for a while watching all the horses run in big stakes. We’ve won 19 stakes for him in the last few years, including the Arlington Matron (gr. III) with Indescribable on May 26. It’s a funny old game. It was rough on the stable; some of the crew were in tears. But, it’s happened to all of us. (Blood Horse)

Bill Mott is running two Courtlandt Farm horses at Colonial Downs, presumably in spots that Motion was pointing to. Indescribable will go in the All Along facing former stablemate Lady Digby. Adriano will run in the Colonial Turf Cup.

My only guess is that the trainer move surrounds the handling of Adriano's spring campaign which ended with a 19th place Derby finish.

Golden Man
I just watched 6yo gelding Golden Man finish off the board in a 14k claimer at Belmont. About three years ago, Golden Man finished 3rd in the Long Branch at Monmouth for Lawrence Walters under Alan Garcia. He then showed up the following day at Delaware Park to finish second in the Leonard Richards for Anthony Dutrow under John Velazquez. Two jockeys, two trainers, one horse, one weekend.

Saturday with Crist and Watchmaker
I'm headed to NYC tomorrow to spend two days at Belmont Park and the Daily Racing Form is springing for my trip. A buddy of mine won a drawing for a day at the races at Belmont (Bet with the Best II contest) and lunch with a DRF personality. I was lucky enough to get invited to tag along. We are going to the races on Friday and Saturday and will have lunch with Steve Crist and Mike Watchmaker on Saturday. I am a huge fan of Steve Crist. I subscribe to DRF Plus just so I can read his column (which I almost always completely agree with) and have read all of his books (Exotic Betting, Betting on Myself, The Horse Traders, Offtrack).

Jim Rome
I turned on the radio on Friday and heard national syndicated sports talk radio host Jim Rome interviewing Mike Puype about the Friday night feature race at Hollywood Park, the 1st running of the King Glorious. Puype trains Rome's horse El Manuel, one of the favorites in that race. I used to be a big Rome fan and listed to "The Jungle" almost religiously in the 90s but now I only flip to it every so often. Rome used to say that Horse Racing was a bet not a sport and that jockeys were circus midgets. Now he owns horses as part of Little Red Feather Racing and is talking up the sport on his radio show. El Manuel ended up running second, probably costing the "Clones" a bunch of money.