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Asmussen worked him eight days after the Travers and two more times after that - which is a pretty quick turnaround, especially after a 10f race. They supposedly worked him pretty hard for the first couple of works. I have heard in more than place that that Asmussen thought Max Player was carrying too much weight and now he has him where he wants him – so for what it is worth, it seems like he
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I took this off the probables, so they may not be exact, but should be really close if not.
2. Max Player 555.80
3. Enforceable 972.40
4. Storm the Court 1213.20
5. Major Fed 1298.80
7. Money Moves 569.60
8. South Bend 1379.80
9. Mr. Big News 1994.40
10. Thousand Words 399.20
11. Necker Island 2195.60
12. Sole Volante 804.40
13. Attachment Rate 1162.40
14. Winning Impression 2681.40
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Assuming the field stays intact (which nowadays seems like a big assumption) with 18 horses they will leave the first gate and last gate open, so Tiz the Law will actually be in gate 18 (and if just one scratches, I think they leave gates 1-2-20 open so he will likely start in gate 18 anyways). It will be Honor A.P. in the 17 hole then trying to buck history 90 years of history. With their new fa
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The 146th Kentucky Derby Field
1. Finnick the Fierce-50
2. Max Player-30
3. Enforceable-30
4. Storm the Court-50
5. Major Fed-50
6. King Guillermo-20
7. Money Moves-30
8. South Bend-50
9. Mr. Big News-50
10. Thousand Words-15
11. Necker Island-50
12. Sole Volante -30
13. Attachment Rate -50
14. Winning Impression-50
15. Ny Traffic-20
16. Honor A. P.-5
17. Tiz the Law-3/5
18. Aut
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The New York Times is reporting that the Arkansas Racing Commission has suspended Bob Baffert for 15 days for two horses testing positive for banned substances, suspended runs from August 1st-15th, in addition, both Charlatan and Gamine have been disqualified from there races and placed last. No word yet if Baffert will appeal.
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Saratoga just announced that they will not allow jockeys to ride at the track if the jockey leaves to ride at another track or has ridden somewhere else after the start of the meet under a new protocol to reduce the risk of coronavirus. Saratoga closes September 7 and the Kentucky Derby is on September 5, so my guess is that a number of jockeys will miss the last couple of days and opt to keep th
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Maybe a bit of both? Both the main and the turf course seem to be playing pretty quickly. 1:46 and change for Tiz the Law? That is pretty quick.
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Gov. Andy Beshear says Churchill Downs can reopen on May 11; first race date TBA. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday that Churchill Downs will be allowed to open its backside to horses on May 11.
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FYI – Charlatan made the even money favorite in the first division while Nadal the 5/2 choice in the second division of the Arkansas Derby.
OP 11 - Arkansas Derby, Division One
1. Charlatan, Bob Baffert, Martin Garcia, 1-1
2. My Friends Beer, Jeremiah O’Dwyer, Declan Cannon, 20-1
3. Mo Mosa, Mike Maker, Kendrick Carmouche, 30-1
4. Gouverneur Morris, Todd Pletcher, John Velazque
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I agree that the pace could be hot and sometimes in these cases every one pulls back and they let the leader practically walk on the lead as they are afraid to engage. If they let Serengeti Empress cut out similar fractions as last time they will never catch her. However, I think the scenario will be much more like Tavasco described – a couple banging heads and setting up it for a late comer. P
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Santa Anita Park will remain closed for live racing through this weekend as it abides by the order issued last week from the Los Angeles County Health Department as it relates to essential businesses. At this time, there are no known cases of COVID-19 at Santa Anita Park.
The Santa Anita Derby and Santa Anita Oaks scheduled for Saturday, April 4 will be rescheduled for later in the season af
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Landeros is now 0/112 at GP this meet - that is a tough number to overcome...
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Newspaperofrecord to scratch from Sand Springs (GP 9)
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Here's a link to the DRF story:
Castellano Tests Positive for Coronavirus
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Nice, very nice. Sorry you guys closed up shop at the casino, this ought help some. You have made a couple of decent scores in the past six months.
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While the Rainbow P6 was hit for $1.2 million on Monday at GP, the late P5 was not, so there is a carryover of about $200,000 in the late P4 at GP Thursday.
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At the behest of some of the TG’ers, I looked at the FG card.
FG 1. 3/9-8/5. Sir Advent has been odds on his last five starts with a record of 5-1-2-1 overall – so it is hard to get too excited about a horse that has been beaten so many times at short prices. His last race came off a four month layoff and he could improve here with racing, but he is coming in off 19 days rest and that has
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Moonlight Garden seems tough to beat at a price that will likely be around even money. Her worst races in the past year have been as good as the best races from most of these. She comes into this race with 28 days of intervening rest and has two works since her last. Cox had been able to get three good runs that would likely win this race if she ran back to them and two OK runs that are still com
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Fairmount1 - let me apologize as I did read your post prior to posting the postponement of SA. In my mind, I was just confirming what you said parenthetically in your post about hearing SA was postponing opening day. In my haste, I just threw it together with a direct quote from the track on Twitter - I should have said something like "Confirming what Fairmount1 posted earlier, SA officially
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Via SA Twitter:
The opening day of Santa Anita’s 83rd season will be postponed two days until Saturday, December 28th, ahead of next week’s declining weather forecast.
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OK - I will take a shot....
Race 7. Like the rail slot for Mitchell Road – these should be much easier than the ones she has been facing. Seems versatile enough. Will get an extra press. Also have always been partial to Altea – Chad and Irad are a potent duo. Using on a ticket. Using mainly the 1 with a one ticket with the 6
Race 8. This seems like a race Paco was born to ride – the s
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Aqueduct cancelled their Thanksgiving card due to expected dangerous high winds. No mention so far on when they will reschedule the stakes set for Thursday.
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From the Del Mar website...
“Due to projections of rain from Tuesday through Thursday of next week in San Diego, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (DMTC) announced today that its Thursday, November 21 race card has been cancelled. This action was due to “an abundance of caution,†said DMTC officials as the inclement weather likely will result in a muddy main track and soft turf course.â€
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Agree that Imperial Hint was a bet against, BUT would have taken some money...
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Imperial Hint scratched from the Sprint
Suedois scratched from BC Mile - Next Shares draws in
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"Pletcher has a shot in here. Not his wheel house shipping there like this"
Agree that Pletcher has a big shot - but his record at SA in Breeder's Cup races I believe is now 46-1-5-6.
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Juvenile Fillies to Distaff
1 - 99.80
2 - 125.80
3 - 119.00
4 - 15.00
5 - 51.60
6 - 164.20
7 - 157.40
8 - 812.00
9 - 125.80
10 - 734.20
11 - 73.20
Juvenile Turf to Turf
1 - 520.00
2 - 726.00
3 - 852.60
4 - 411.80
5 - 95.80
6 - 506.40
7 - 975.00
8 - 1406.00
9 - 35.60
10 - 80.60
11 - 161.40
12 - 251.00
Juvenile to Classic
1 - 2063.20
2 - 1529.00
3 - 1153.00
4 - 688.
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Tiger Silk is attempting to make her US debut – I say attempting because she has been a vet scratch three times already. She won a couple of times in NZ and Mandella has had her for some time now. Anyone have thoughts about how the Thorograph numbers from NZ translate to the US? I know that European TG figures are usually few points higher than US horses and a couple indicated in the last coupl
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shanahan,
There should be three specials listed in the Step 1 on the online order page - click on that and you should see what you are looking for as you already purchased the BC Advance data.
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