Arena arrivals have long been a fashion runway for N.B.A. superstars. But before a playoff game on Friday, the Cleveland Cavaliers took things to a new level, wearing coordinated ensembles by the designer Thom Browne.
Bill, just a quick question. I went through a number of your posed races. On your tags there are times when you don't give a horse a line but then I read in one of your post you give every horse a line to make RX a more viable readout. Just wondering about this. Did I misread something? Thanks in...
Backyard Heaven, profiled in the December 22 edition of FormBlog (http://www.drf.com/blogs/backyard-heaven-one-follow-brown), came back with another excellent effort at Aqueduct last Saturday.
PTF and JK go over weekend stakes action from Aqueduct, Keeneland, and Santa Anita in an abbreviated show where they also answer a few listener questions.
Over the last few years, a good bet when looking for first-time starters in maiden special weight races for 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds has been to find top trainers running early foals with good workouts that are going off at decent prices.
In this race, four trainers are winning more than 20 percent of their races for the year: Bob Baffert, Carla Gaines, Jerry Hollendorfer and John Sadler. Their fillies scheduled to go to post in this race all have good workouts and were born in January, February and March.
The morning line maker has them all priced somewhere between 5/2 and 4/1. Of course, all I care about are the odds at post time and I will take whatever horses the public gives me.
I will bet $500 to win on the two highest-odds horses that are between 7/2 and 9/1 among #1 Blaze Along, #5 Lofty Ambition, #6 Dearly Concerned and #7 Candid Ride.
Maiden Claiming $25,000, 7 furlongs, 3 yo’s and up
Possible overlaysMorning line
#2 Born to Waltz 15/1
#6 Royal Import 3/1
#8 Aeromon 5/2
This race is mainly between two horses: #6 Royal Import and #8 Aeromon.
Trained by Robert Hess, Royal Import is making his tenth career start and first on anything other than grass. Eight of Royal Import’s last 10 races were routes, but that shouldn’t put him at a disadvantage at this 7-furlong distance. This gelding has shown a good late kick, which will be needed to catch Aeromon.
Aeromon has the best demonstrated speed in this field. The question will be whether leading jockey Joel Rosario can slow down Aeromon enough during the second quarter mile so this gelding will have the energy to hold off Royal Import in the lane.
At 7 furlongs, speed isn’t as great an asset as it is in short sprints. That is why I would be reluctant to bet Aeromon if Royal Import is a longer price.
The only other horse I’m looking at in this race is #2 Born to Waltz, who is running in his second race back from a long layoff. The past performances on this Jerry Fanning-trainee are on the dismal side which should help the odds. In his first race, Born to Waltz was pulled up and walked off. In his second start, he broke dead last in an eleven-horse field and stayed there until closing good ground in the stretch to finish seventh. Horses of this type have shown to be profitable win-place bets at 10/1 to 19/1.
Therefore, at 5/2 and up, I will bet $700 on #6 Royal Import. But if Royal Import is 2/1 or below at post time, then I will wager $300 on #8 Aeromon at 3/1 or higher.
Also, at 10/1 to 19/1, I will put $50 on #2 Born to Waltz.
I can see Aeromon getting away loose on the lead with Royal Import closing to be second. So, I will bet a straight $20 trifecta 8 with 6 with 2, a $5 trifecta 8 with 2 with 6, and $5 trifectas 8 with 6 with all horses 10/1 to 30/1.
The above exotic bets are contingent on either Aeromon being 3/1 or more, or Royal Import being 5/2 or higher.
The $40,000 James K. Hackett Memorial for sophomore Ohio-sired pacing fillies was the featured race on Friday night's card at Miami Valley, and it would result in a 1:52 4/5 track record performance by Up Front Flor Ida.
The sky seemed the limit for Valadorna after the filly finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita in November 2016. But a combination of factors somehow kept her from so much as a graded stakes win – until Friday, when she surged to win the 24th running of the Grade 3, $100,000 Doubledogdare Stakes at Keeneland.
Ron Luniewski, the president of the account-wagering company XpressBet since 2002, will be leaving the company effective immediately, according to several officials within the company’s parent organization who spoke on Friday.
David Day, Michael Day, and Mary DiPietro's Evo Campo already has one graded stakes in a marathon turf race on her résumé and will seek a second April 22 at Santa Anita, but this time the 6-year-old mare will have to defeat the opposite sex.
Valadorna followed a career-low finish by posting an all-time best result April 20, when she inched clear in the final stages of the $100,000 Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes (G3) at Keeneland to earn her first graded stakes win.
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Hoppertunity, a veteran campaigner who is a favorite in Bob Baffert's barn, got back to his winning ways on Sunday at Santa Anita with a 6 1/2-length score in the $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (G3)...
ARCADIA, Calif. (April 20, 2018)–Having kept top company of late, heavily favored Marley’s Freedom took a dip into the conditioned allowance ranks on Friday at Santa Anita and responded with a powerful 2 ¼ length win under Drayden Van Dyke. A 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Blame, Marley’s Freedom, who is trained by Bob Hess, […] The post HEAVILY FAVORE […]
MILLER HAS TWO FOR THE MONEY IN KONA GOLD FREE ROSE STEPS UP AGAIN IN GRADE SATURDAY NESSY MAKES HIMSELF AT HOME FOR SAN JUAN RACING COMMUNITY RALLIES TO AID VALENZUELA MILLER DUO DOING WELL FOR KONA GOLD Peter Miller has two for the money in Saturday’s Grade II, $200,000 Kona Gold […] The post STABLE NOTES BY ED GOLDEN – FRIDAY APRIL 20, 2018 appeared […]
