A slow early/fast late race shape ensures a stretch scramble in Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Barbara at Santa Anita, and anything can happen with eleven evenly matched ladies traveling ten furlongs on the grass.
Double Trouble is a turf/synthetic specialist, and she won her lone turf start at this distance. She ran into win type [...]
The last major Kentucky Derby prep takes place on Saturday, April 19th in Keeneland’s Grade 2 Coolmore Lexington, and eleven three-year-olds are taking one final shot at glory.
Todd Pletcher finally qualified for the Derby with a Monba/Cowboy Cal 1-2 Blue Grass finish last Saturday, and he has two more entered in the Lexington, including [...]
My Unusual Heat grass angle paid dividends in yesterday’s downhill feature, as first turfer Unusually Hot struck to the tune of $17.00. The hot California turf sire has two more entered on Friday, starting with fourth race longshot Pops’hands Are Hot.
The Barry Abrams state bred maiden has struggled in four synthetic tracks, but his [...]
Unusual Heat is one of my favorite turf sires, and he has two runners in Thursday’s seventh at Santa Anita, a state bred entry level event for three-year-old fillies traveling six and one-half furlongs down the hill.
Unusually Hot tries grass for the first time and sports a Hollywood bullet for her return. Her [...]
Handicappers have been blanked in the Pick Six at the current meet, and the carryover now stands at $307,049. It looks like yet another tough Polytrack card, and maybe we can find a few winners later in the day.
The sixth race is an allowance turf route for three-year-olds, and Texas Fever has a shot [...]
Street Boss impressively wore down the gritty Tropic Storm in Monday’s optional claiming feature at Santa Anita. Bruce Headley’s improving sprinter is running out of conditions and will likely show up in the stakes ranks at the upcoming Hollywood Park meeting.
The runner-up looms a tough customer at this level when he returns to action, [...]
Seven of the eight entrants in Monday’s optional claiming feature at Santa Anita have run in at least one stakes race recently, and that does not include probable favorite Street Boss.
Talented son of Street Cry started his career off in dramatic fashion with a smashing late running tally, and he followed that up with [...]
Southern California synthetic specialist Gayego parlayed a beautiful tracking trip into a gritty three-quarter length tally over Z Fortune in the Arkansas Derby, and both horses figure to head to Louisville in three weeks.
Gayego is one of several quality early/pressing runners heading to Churchill Downs, and his win on Saturday seems to flatter [...]
Todd Pletcher was in danger of missing the 2008 Kentucky Derby, but all that changed when Monba necked stablemate Cowboy Cal in a thrilling renewal of the Grade 1 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.
Many of the top contenders threw in clunkers, and none more so than heavy favorite Pyro. His team is already blaming the [...]
Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile hero Kip Deville came off the bench and successfully defended his Maker’s Mark title at Keeneland on Friday. The 2-1 favorite saved all the ground from the rail post before launching his winning bid from fourth. Einstein headed stubborn pacesetter Thorn Song in a nice battle for the place. The [...]
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