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![]() Weather tore up the start to closing week at Belmont Wednesday, but today's fun card looks like it should stay largely intact with only the 4th race off the turf so far... "Best Of" At the Races today and tomorrow with 'Bobby Frankel Remembered' and '2010 Triple Crown Highlights'... Saratoga broadcasts start next week!
BELMONT PARK POST-SCRATCHES 1st: ALW/N1X, F&M-3+, 7f-T (P3, DD) Tricky little group of 6 in the opener, with Mott comebacker Phantom Rising returning off 476 day break, and all others except Citifiesta cutting back from turf routes.. Most Likely: #4 Hatheer 2-1 WON ($9.90) Next Best: #2 Citifiesta 5-1 Best Value: #5 Exchange Funds 10-1 2nd 2nd: MSW, 2yo, 5.5f (P4, P3, DD, Super) Juveniles coming out with more regularity now, and this group of 7 features the next 2 Bernardini babies to run (#3 Stay Thirsty and #5 Scoville). Stay Thirsty, a $500k 2yo in training buy by Mike Repole, is a half brother to Andromeda's Hero; #4 Punster, from Frank Alexander and Dogwood, is a Distorted Humor chestnut bred by Tom Van Meter out of his excellent race filly Victory U.S.A. (Victory Gallop-Fordyce by Cox's Ridge). A Bob Baffert trainee, Victory U.S.A. was a top juvenile in the outstanding crop of 2003 missies, winning the Mocassin, placing in the Frizette (Society Selection) and Del Mar Debutante (Halfbridled), and finishing third to Halfbridled and Ashado in the BC Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita; #7 Sovereign Default, the oldest baby in the bunch as a January foal, is bred to be fast early being by Northern Afleet out of the 10x winning sprinting terror She is Raging.. Most Likely: #4 Punster 7-2 3rd Next Best: #7 Sovereign Default 5-2 WON ($7.10) Exotics Use: #3 Stay Thirsty 2-1 2nd Super Add: #5 Scoville 9-2 4th 3rd: MSW, F&M-3+, 6.5f (P3, DD) More interesting pedigrees in group of 3yo fillies with debuts from #1 Miss Vindictive, a half to Get Funky and Mayan King, and #2 Arena Elvira was a $210k OBS yearling by Stephen Got Even out of millionaire Two Item Limit who counted heroics in the Tempted and Desmoiselle at 2 and the Black-Eyed Susan and Comely at 3 among her 7 career victories. #3 Freedom Flag has tried unsuccessfully to win 4 times, but all her siblings have been largely disappointments considering the quality of dam Runup the Colors, the 1997 Alabama winner for Neil Howard.. Most Likely: #6 Ivybridge 1-1 3rd Best Value: #1 Miss Vindictive 12-1 5th Next Best: #5 Wild Banshee 5-1 4th 4th: CLM/N2L, 3+, 6f OFF THE TURF (P6, P3, DD) Most Likely: #9 SCR Next Best: #2 Richie Rules 12-1 WON ($4.30) Best Value: #4 Seis de Mayo 5-1 3rd 5th: S/ALW, 3+, 8.5f (G/S, P3, DD) Best Value: #5 Clear Faith 9-2 6th Next Best: #7 Bad Action 2-1 2nd Exotics Use: #2 Seniors Pride 5-2 3rd <$50 P4 Play: 2: 4-7 3: 1-2-5-6 4: 2-9/SCR 5: 2-5-7 2x4x2x3 = $48 6th: NY-MDN CLM, F&M-3+, 8.5f-T (P4, P3, DD, Super) Most Likely: #5 No Imagination 5-2 2nd Best Value: #8 Ruby's Magic Spell 5-1 6th Next Best: #6 Lemon Tiger 7-2 WON ($6.90) Super Add: #4 Crystal Galopoff 10-1 7th 7th: S/ALW, F&M-3+, 6f-IT (P3, DD) Best Value: #2 Princess Maura 6-1 5th Next Best: #8 Tempest Storm 2-1 2nd Exotics Use: #7 Talented Princess 5-2 4th 8th: NY-OC/N2X, 3+, 7f-T (DD, Super) Not a lot of speed involved here, and wonder if Dominguez can't stay the trip on/near lead with OK for turf Brazen Kat? 12-1 can make up for fact that Duggan is 0 for 20 with dirt-turf moves.. Best Value: #5 Brazen Kat 12-1 7th Next Best: #3 Gold Vendetta 7-2 5th Exotics Use: #9 Mor Chances 2-1 WON ($5.80) Super Add: #8 Hot Money 5-2 2nd 9th: MDN CLM, 3+, 7f (Exacta only) Most Likely: #3 Sea of Liquidity 2-1 2nd Next Best: #2 W. W.'s Lady's Man 5-2 WON ($4.90) Best Value: #9 Seeking Anita 15-1 5th <$50 P4 Play: 6: 5-8 7: 2-7-8 8: 3-5-8-9 9: 2-3 2x3x4x2 = $48 Good luck! Steve
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans Last edited by Kasept : 07-15-2010 at 11:24 PM. |
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One is envious of the way this group just seems to sniff out all the bargains and never seems to overpay. |
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Just more nebulous nonsense from BBB |
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And just think how much Nicanor and Lentenor would've brought had they been offered for sale? I'm just saying I look at the amount of money these guys pay for horses, and the results, and just wonder. |
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![]() Who are you betting in a match race between a RHT/Violette firster vs a Giants Causeway/Baffert firster?
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans |
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![]() I like the 1, in the 8th. A lot.
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