Cash Call/Oaks Double -- Triple Bend

[saucon17]

A nice turf race to look forward to Friday Night at Hollywood Park.



Hollywood Park - July 6th, 2007 - Race 5

CashCall Mile Invitational S. - Grade: 2 9:05 PM

Three Year Old and Upward - Fillies and Mares
$1,000,000, One Mile - Turf

1 Precious Kitten (KY) 4 Filly 121 Rafael Bejarano
2 Arm Candy (IRE) 4 Filly 119 Michael C. Baze
3 Wait a While (KY) 4 Filly 123 Garrett K. Gomez
4 Koiuta (JPN) 4 Filly 119 Hiroyuki Uchida
5 Dancing Edie (CA) 5 Mare 123 Corey S. Nakatani
6 Price Tag (GB) 4 Filly 123 Edgar S. Prado
7 Lady of Venice (FR) 4 Filly 119 Julien R. Leparoux
8 Alexandra Rose (SAF) 5 Mare 121 David Romero Flores
9 Kiss to Heaven (JPN) 4 Filly 123 Victor Espinoza
10 Dia de la Novia (JPN) 5 Mare 121 Yasunari Iwata

Price Tag looks like the best American runner or does Wait a While turns around her form an runs a race like she did in last years American Oaks over the Hollywood turf course. Maybe one of Japanese imports gets the money.


SATURDAY

10th (4:50)
American Oaks Invitational S. (G1)

1 1/4 Miles (Turf) | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $750,000

1 Baroness Thatcher Nakatani C S 121 L
2 Supposition (GB) Bejarano R 121
3 Valbenny (IRE) Solis A 121 L
4 Panty Raid Prado E S 121
5 Robe Decollete Iwata Y 121
6 Anamato (AUS) Rodd M 125
7 Communique Migliore R 121
8 Audacious Chloe Flores D R 121 L
9 Just Little (FR) Espinoza V 121

[NTamm1215]

I can tell you right now...Price Tag is going to be awful tough going 1 mile. That is her ideal distance and the race she ran in the Gamely showed that while she is immensely talented, she probably doesn't really want nine furlongs. Prado is headed out west to jump on and I'm not enamored with any of the American contingent, especially since Wait A While seems to have been exposed. Although I will admit Lady of Venice could be a bit more than I think.

I was a little surprised by the placement of the race on the card. Race 5 makes it Leg B of the Pick 6, but it misses both the early and late Pick 4. I guess it had to be run at a reasonable hour for increased handle (it's scheduled to go at midnight EDT).

Should be a good race and it looks like this particular event is on its way to being a solid GI with a great position on the calendar.

NT

[whodey17]

Be interesting to see how these horses handle night racing.

[GPK]

Cali turf racing for the girls. Makes me miss my girl Megahertz.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by GPK

Cali turf racing for the girls. Makes me miss my girl Megahertz.

Did you know she had a sister racing in Europe?

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

Did you know she had a sister racing in Europe?

Had no clue.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by GPK

Had no clue.

Heaven Sent who just placed at Ascot and is 4. Meggy has a full brother too, who I don't believe has started. She was something else.

[Mortimer]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm with you on Price tag, she is a very nice filly. You can have Wait A While and Lady of Venice, I'm putting Precious Kitten and the Japanese horses under her.

As you well know Hossy...the only reason WaitAWhile is in there is to destroy ant hills.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm with you on Price tag, she is a very nice filly. You can have Wait A While and Lady of Venice, I'm putting Precious Kitten and the Japanese horses under her.

allow me to pile in? also like price tag here.

The day is mine!! I'll take Price Fag for $500, Alex.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

The day is mine!! I'll take Price Fag for $500, Alex.

surely a typo!!! lol

[Alan07]

The $1 million CashCall Mile at Hollywood Park on Friday will not include expected favorite Wait a While, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2006.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said on Wednesday that Wait a While had developed a temperature after being shipped to California on Tuesday. Wait a While had drawn post 3 and would have been favored to win her second stakes of the year.

Wait a While underwent a blood test after arriving from New York and the tests revealed an elevated white blood count, Pletcher said. "She looked okay this morning, but she's got a bit of a temperature," Pletcher said Wednesday in a telephone interview. "It's disappointing. She shipped so many times last year."

Pletcher said Wait a While's plans for the summer depend on how quickly she rebounds. She is still considered a candidate for the Beverly D. Stakes at Arlington Park on Aug. 11.

"The first order of business is to get her well," Pletcher said.

http://www.drf.com/news/article/86386.html

Wait a While reportedly turned to Todd and quoted her favorite line from the movie Zoolander, "I've got the black lung, pop." Todd thought she was serious.

[Antitrust32]

Must root for Prethous Kitty


Named after our own miss kitty kat.

[MisterB]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Must root for Prethous Kitty


Named after our own miss kitty kat.

Frankel knows this is a good runner. She likes to hear her feet rattle, and the Holly Turf will be to her liking. Love to see this one win here.

[miraja2]

PP for the Oaks: http://www.drf.com/row/pps/07americanoaks.pdf
And in what has become a familiar refrain this year, I have to say there is not much here for a G1.

[geeker2]

Frankel exacta ?..The mile may fit PK perfectly...and we know that RB can ride at any track...8-1 would interest me a bit.

[Danzig]

one writer suggested surf cat could make a run at HOY. as he said, at this point of the year, tiznow hadn't accomplished anything either....who knows? horse certainly is loaded with talent. good to see him back on the track and ready to race.

[Danzig]

oh lord....speaking of saturday racing at hollywood, there's a horse entered in the 7th named shanhi tang.

[GPK]

The CAT is back