Saratoga video: Stakes starters for Donk, Walsh, Rodriguez

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Horse Racing Nation's Andrew Capone is hitting the backside this summer to talk to connections at Saratoga.

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In the latest Morning Report, he chats with trainer David Donk, trainer Brendan Walsh's assistant Charlie Lynch, and trainer Rudy Rodriguez.

Donk provides an update on Fingal’s Cave, who won the black-type Fleet Indian Stakes at Saratoga last Friday. He also discusses three horses entered in upcoming stakes: Lady Jasmine in Thursday’s P.G. Johnson and Big Package and Thin White Duke in the Lucky Coin on Friday.

Lynch discusses Temple City Terror, who was second to War Like Goddess in the Glens Falls (G2) and will face her again in the Flower Bowl (G2) on Saturday.

And Rodriguez updates on Hot Peppers, who is entered in the Prioress (G2) on Friday. She finished second to Chi Town Lady last out in Test (G1).

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