Coco Gauff and Simona Halep won their first-round matches. Victoria Azarenka did, too, but not before a rain delay. “I’m going to get frozen,” she said.
Looks like I'm keying on #8 Chase Runner and #3 Surf Shack. #8 if only as good as his last can still be good enough. Like that he's back in 16 days off his win. #3 I couldn't toss from the top 3 no matter which pacelines I threw into RDSS. If these two are close to their MLs, they both get...
Jockey Julio Garcia got #2 JJ Minister to come again in the stretch to nail#11 Certainly Certain by a head
In the write-up before this race, I said that the experienced runners starting in this event had not come within 10 Beyer Speed Figure points of the median number that wins at this class.
Therefore, I took a long look at the five first-time starters and was prepared to bet on four of them if I got the right odds. However, both #4 Tiger Trysts and #12 Celestic Night were scratched and neither #7 Proud Jenny, at 28/1, and #10 Jakesam, at 4/1, fell into my odds range of 10/1 to 19/1. My final possibility, #9 Elessar, was also scratched. I was at Del Mar for Opening Day, but saw the odds and did not stay for the 10th.
The race, however, turned out to be an exciting one. As the gates opened, #2 JJ Minister shot right for the lead on the inside. Nearing the turn, #6 Mandelieu cut JJ Minister’s two-length lead down to one. But jockey Julio Garcia kept hustling JJ Minister around the turn and, when the colt entered the stretch a bit wide, it enabled #11 Certainly Certain to catch up.
Certainly Certain had a half a length on JJ Minister at the eighth pole, but Garcia never quit and JJ Minister responded by coming again. He paid $44.60.
Because of the scratches and undesirable odds, I had no bets in this race.
PGM
PP#
NAME
JOCKEY
TRAINER
ODDS
FN
2
1
J J Minister (CA)
Garcia J
Perez S
21.30
1
3
2
Unbridled Score (CA)
Rivera C
Stute M
32.60
8
5
3
Alex T (KY)
Gonzalez A
Bacorn H
35.40
7
6
4
Mandelieu (CA)
Verenzuela J
Polanco M
43.10
10
7
5
Proud Jenny (NM)
Medellin A
Gonzalez S
28.70
9
1
6
Grand Maneuver (KY)
Pedroza M
Velasquez D
2.80
6
8
7
Bigmikeistheman (FL)
Smith M
Fanning J
1.10
5
10
8
Jakesam (KY)
Baze T
Hollendorfer J
4.10
3
11
9
Certainly Certain (CA)
Santiago Reyes C
Solis W
8.70
2
1A
10
B. J.’s Hope (KY)
Espinoza V
Velasquez D
2.80
4
SCR
–
Celestic Night (KY)
–
–
SCR
–
Liquid Asset (KY)
–
–
SCR
–
Elessar (KY)
–
–
SCR
–
Tiger Trysts (KY)
Gryder A
Kitchingman A
–
–
Pgm
Win
Place
Show
2
$44.60
$22.20
$12.20
11
–
$9.40
$7.40
10
–
–
$5.00
Exotic Payoffs
$0.50 Pick 4 paid $850.35 (5/11-3-1/10-2)
$1.00 Exacta paid $189.70 (2-11)
$1.00 Pick 3 paid $289.30 (3-10-2)
$1.00 Place Pick All paid $1943.80 (9 OF 10)
$1.00 Super High Five paid $5042.50 (2-11-10-1-8)
$1.00 Superfecta paid $3149.80 (2-11-10-1)
$1.00 Trifecta paid $1452.00 (2-11-10)
$2.00 Daily Double paid $236.20 (10-2)
$2.00 Pick 6 paid $324.20 (4-8-5/11-3-1/10-2)
$2.00 Quinella paid $128.40 (2-11)
Weston, the winner of the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 8, was withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade 1 American Pharoah after a bout with colic, but showed improvement later in the weekend, trainer Ryan Hanson said.
Venetian Harbor, second in the Grade 1 Test Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga in August, may have her next start in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 7.
Two track records fell by the wayside as the Hippodrome 3R played host to their Super Sunday, featuring eight series championship finals with purses on the card totaling more than C$508,000. It was the richest day of horse racing in all of Quebec, and Mother Nature cooperated with warm temperatures and plenty of sunshine.
An idea initially pioneered at the Breeders' Cup, owners, trainers, breeders and jockeys with a runner on the two biggest days in the French calendar are invited to pledge a small part of any prize-money they might earn to support the work of ADDP.
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