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Notes & Quotes From Rick Violette Memorial at Saratoga: Leon Blue

By |July 18th, 2025|

(Leon Blue wins the Rick Violette on Thursday at Saratoga / Photo Courtesy of NYRA) From the NYRA Media Team: AWC Stables, Gold Square, Paul Braverman and Scott Akman’s Leon Blue made his stakes debut a winning one in Thursday’s $150,000 Rick Violette, 1 1/16-mile Mellon turf test for New York-bred sophomores, at Saratoga Race Course. The win provided jockey Chris Elliott and trainer Melanie Giddings with their first Saratoga stakes victories, and came on the heels of a nose loss to returning rival Outsource in a 1 1/16-mile state-bred allowance on June 4 here in the son of Mo Town’s second start off a nearly six-month respite. "That was an unlucky head bob [last time],” said Giddings, whose former trainee Mel’s Baby Sister was named the Down Broadway Retired Racehorse of the Year earlier this afternoon at the Spa. “Chris rode the horse perfect; the horse was just a

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