If you spend enough time at Saratoga, you’ll know the summertime weather can become unpredictable. There was no better example of that then what happened on Thursday. The morning and early afternoon were off to a perfect start. The Ninth Race, a Starter Optional Claimer that was scheduled for mile and a sixteenth on the turf was thought to go off without issue, so all the Main-Track Only entries, including the other half of our entry, Hero’s Medal, were scratched. Then immediately following the third race, a storm popped up out of nowhere and brought a solid downpour for 15 minutes. The sun returned well before the start of the fourth race, but the rainfall was enough to take the remaining turf races off the grass. Having run on off-tracks before, Brit’s Wit would stay in the field. Heading into the paddock, it was a four-horse race, and following a late scratch, only 3 horses went onto the track to run a mile in the slop. The three horses stayed pretty even on the backstretch. Midway through the far turn, favorite Final Denile made a move for the lead with Brit’s Wit trailing on the inside. Going into the stretch, jockey Joel Rosario hit the brakes on the inside run and sliced through the middle of Final Denile and Hedge the Risk to make an outside run on Final Denile and took the lead at the furlong pole to win by a length in 1:39.67. It was our second win at Saratoga this summer, third win with Brit’s Wit, second win with jockey Joe Rosario this year and second win with trainer Mike Maker this year. It was the 10th win with trainer Mike Maker as he becomes the fifth trainer to reach double digit wins for us, joining Mertkan and Ilkay Kantarmaci, John Kimmel and Rob Falcone, Jr.