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October 2 Venue Thoughts
Looking like Belmont or Santa Anita. Right now Belmont, with The Woodward and The Champagne has the edge, although Santa Anita has three BC qualifying stakes races on the card??? And . . .
Just about 5 1/2 weeks to the Beeders Cup at Del Mar!!!
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Mewsings From The Cat House
I know you probably won’t like this suggestion 🙄
But you asked for our opinion and here is mine from The Litter Box 🐯 🏆 ALL STAKES FROM BELMONT AND SANTA ANITA 🏆 |
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I kinda like that idea. We've done it in the past. That would make an interesting and challenging 9 race card.
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Don, congrats on your points win on a day when some of the races were complete mysteries.
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Some of the fields for both the Belmont and Santa Anita stakes races are disappointingly small. It often seems to work out that way for major stakes races.
At Belmont, the Miss Grillo, the Champagne and the Woodword all drew only 6 entrants. At Santa Anita the City of Hope Mile only has a field of 5 and the Santa Anita Sprint Championship has 6. The rest of the stakes races at both tracks have fuller fields. |
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Well there's Laurel Park with 5 Graded Stakes and much larger fields. More of a challenge with more entries and a track we seldom. It should keep the scores down too.
I'm OK with Laurel's 10 race card.
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Churchill Downs
October 2, 2021 Go to Race: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | All RETURN TO INDEX RACE 10 Ack Ack S. (Grade III) POST TIME - 5:26 PM ET ENTRIES PLUS (FREE) PPS & SELECTIONS PP (RACE 10) Churchill Downs STAKES Purse $300,000. (Includes $50,000 – KTDF - Kentucky TB Devt Fund). For Three-Year-Olds And Upward.One Mile. PP Horse Virtual Stable A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer 1 Exculpatory (MD) 3/C C Cedeno 118 M J Reid 2 Mo Mosa (KY) 4/C J Lezcano 123 M J Maker 3 Guest Suite (KY) 7/G E Esquivel 121 C Contreras 4 Ebben (KY) 6/G F Arrieta 121 S Margolis 5 Mr Dumas (KY) 5/H R Gutierrez 121 J A Ortiz 6 Aloha West (MD) 4/C C J Lanerie 121 W M Catalano 7 Plainsman (KY) 6/H J Rosario 121 B H Cox 8 Atoka (KY) 4/C R Bejarano 121 D W Lukas 9 South Bend (KY) 4/C J Graham 121 W I Mott 10 Beau Liam (KY) 3/C B J Hernandez, Jr. 118 S M Asmussen 11 Rushie (FL) 4/C J Castellano 121 M W McCarthy Owners: 1 - Grace Merryman ; 2 - Perry Martin ; 3 - Contreras Stable, Inc. (Cipriano Contreras) and Victory Stables, LLC (David Rodriguez) ; 4 - J S Stables, LLC (Craig Aguiar) ; 5 - Hooties Racing, LLC (Mark Moore) and WSS Racing, LLC (William Simon) ; 6 - Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners (Aron Wellman) ; 7 - Shortleaf Stable, Inc. (John Ed Anthony) ; 8 - Laurie Lukas, D. Wayne Lukas, Jim Heird and Eleanor Green ; 9 - Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable (Adam Wachtel), Peter Deutsch and Pantofel Stable, LLC (Len Schleifer) ; 10 - Stonestreet Stables, LLC (Barbara Banke) ; 11 - Jim and Donna Daniell Breeders: 1 - Anchor & Hope Farm Inc & Finn's Nickel,LLC; 2 - Perry Martin & Denise Martin; 3 - W. S. Farish & Kilroy ThoroughbredPartnership; 4 - Hinkle Farms; 5 - Ramspring Farm; 6 - Robert T. Manfuso & Katharine M. Voss; 7 - Joseph Minor; 8 - KatieRich Farms; 9 - Highclere, Inc.; 10 - Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC; 11 - Ocala Stud Pedigrees (Sire - Dam, by Dam Sire): 1 - Mineshaft - Elusory , by Broken Vow ; 2 - Uncle Mo - Roughing , byEskendereya ; 3 - Quality Road - Guest House , by Ghostzapper ; 4 - Trappe Shot - Please Be Discreet , byDiscreet Cat ; 5 - Majesticperfection - Ready Love , by More Than Ready ; 6 - Hard Spun - Island Bound , bySpeightstown ; 7 - Flatter - S S Pinafore , by Street Sense ; 8 - Union Rags - Splendor Town , by Speightstown ; 9 - Algorithms - Sandra's Rose , by Old Trieste ; 10 - Liam's Map - Belle of Perintown , by Dehere ; 11 - Liam's Map -Conquest Angel , by Colonel John ; |
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SANTA ANITA
Race # Purse Race Type Distance Surface Starters Est. Post Entries Plus Race 1 $61,000 Maiden Special Weight 5 Furlongs Turf 14 12:30 PM PT FREE Race 2 $35,000 Maiden Claiming 1 Mile Dirt 5 1:00 PM PT FREE Race 3 $200,000 City of Hope Mile S. 1 Mile Turf 5 1:30 PM PT FREE Race 4 $61,000 Maiden Special Weight 6 Furlongs Dirt 7 2:00 PM PT FREE Race 5 $65,000 Allowance Optional Claiming About 6 1/2 Furlongs Downhill turf 8 2:30 PM PT FREE Race 6 $65,000 Allowance Optional Claiming 1 1/16 Miles Dirt 5 3:00 PM PT FREE Race 7 $63,000 Allowance Optional Claiming 1 Mile Turf 14 3:30 PM PT FREE Race 8 $200,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship S. 6 Furlongs Dirt 6 4:00 PM PT FREE Race 9 $300,000 Rodeo Drive S. 1 1/4 Miles Downhill turf 9 4:30 PM PT FREE Race 10 $300,000 Awesome Again S. 1 1/8 Miles Dirt 8 5:00 PM PT FREE Race 11 $200,000 John Henry Turf Championship S. 1 1/4 Miles Turf 13 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Not Large Fields Laurel 8 12:40 PM ET FREE Race 2 $25,000 Claiming 7 Furlongs Dirt 8 1:10 PM ET FREE Race 3 $150,000 Laurel Futurity 1 1/16 Miles Turf 9 1:40 PM ET FREE Race 4 $100,000 All Along S. 1 1/8 Miles Turf 6 2:10 PM ET FREE Race 5 $17,000 Claiming 7 Furlongs Dirt 12 2:42 PM ET FREE Race 6 $150,000 Selima S. 1 1/16 Miles Turf 9 3:14 PM ET FREE Race 7 $100,000 Laurel Dash S. 5 1/2 Furlongs Turf 12 3:48 PM ET FREE Race 8 $46,000 Maiden Special Weight 1 Mile Dirt 7 4:19 PM ET FREE Race 9 $100,000 Japan Turf Cup S. 1 1/2 Miles Turf 7 4:49 PM ET FREE Race 10 $32,000 Starter Optional Claiming 5 1/2 Furlongs Turf 14 5:27 PM ET FREE Featured Products Last edited by RUFFIAN : 09-29-2021 at 06:37 PM. |
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All good choices depending on your criteria and preference. Let me cogitate on this for awhile!?
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Just my opinion, but I think Santa Anita might have a slightly stronger card than the others with respect to the Graded Stakes. Belmont has 4 graded stakes, but 3 of them are 6 horse fields. Santa Anita has 5 graded Stakes. One is a 5 horse field and one a 6 horse field. The others are 8,9, and 13 horse fields.
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