Wednesday (12-31-08) Fair Grounds recap
Edge to early/pressing types on the main. Stalkers and closers fared best on the turf course.
Hat trick for Jamie Theriot, and Brian Hernandez Jr. booted home a pair. Briggy/Asmussen teamed up for two wins on the card.
Morning Memory (Donnie Meche-Mike Burgess) pulled off a sharp wire job [...]
Sunday (12-28-08) Fair Grounds recap
An equine herpesvirus scare lead to 77 scratches over the weekend as no horses were allowed to ship in or out of Fair Grounds. The ban has since been lifted, and things should return to normal as we creep closer to the New Year.
Edge to stalking types on Sunday’s fast [...]
Proudinsky ($4.60) got the job done over my two value contenders (Ferneley & Medici Code) in the San Gabriel Handicap (G2) on Sunday, but four upsets earlier in the Pick 6 sequence set up a carryover of $156,069 for the 9-race Monday program.
The Pick 6 begins with the 4th race, which is my racingonthenet [...]
Robert Frankel’s Proudinsky, a loser of six straight, is the 5-2 choice to get back on the beam in the San Gabriel Handicap. The Grade 2 event is the eighth race of nine on Sunday at Santa Anita, and it will be run at nine furlongs on the turf.
The aforementioned morning line favorite finished [...]
Saturday (12-27-08) Fair Grounds recap
Edge to stalking types on the main track. Stalkers and closers fared best on the turf.
Kerwin Clark and John Jacinto both booted home a pair. Jamie Theriot/Cody Autrey teamed up for two more wins.
Stormy West (PVal-Mott) captured her 2nd stakes of the meet on Saturday. The Blushing K. D. [...]
Monday (12-22-08) Fair Grounds recap
Fell a day or two behind on my daily blogs from Fair Grounds due to the busy holiday season, so let’s catch up.
Edge to stalkers and closers on both surfaces.
Hat trick for James Graham, and John Jacinto booted home a pair.
Pick 6 was finally hit to the tune [...]
Indian Blessing will try to rediscover her winning ways in Saturday’s seven furlong Grade 1 La Brea at Santa Anita, but her task will not be easy. She was last seen finishing 2nd at this course/distance in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, and her speed ratings are better on conventional dirt, so she [...]
Travers (G1) hero Colonel John makes his final start as a three-year-old as Santa Anita kicks off their winter meet on December 26th. The Grade 1 Malibu has drawn a field of seven sophomores, led by the Colonel.
Eoin Harty’s charge was last seen finishing a solid 6th in the Breeders’ Cup Classic versus a [...]
Sunday (12-21-08) Fair Grounds recap
Edge to early/pressing types on a fair main track. A couple of rare wire jobs at a flat mile on the turf (yielding). The lone turf sprint carded was nabbed by a horse showing positional speed (Coy Cat, 5th to 1st).
Four-bagger for Jamie Theriot included a hat trick for his [...]
Saturday (12-20-08) Hollywood Park recap
Edge to early/pressing types on Cushion Track. Both turf races were taken in wire-to-wire fashion. Five wins from inside post.
Martin Pedroza booted home a pair.
My 5-1 top Gambler’s Justice almost stole the $75k Cat’s Cradle, but Bai And Bai and Spenditallbaby crept past her late.
Pioneerof the Nile [...]
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