A speed bias could change things, but I would rather choose Itsmyluckyday to win Sunday's Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park based on his strong form on fast tracks, than hope that Verrazano rebounds strongly enough to beat him.
Breeze-Figs Quick-Pix for Saturday, June 15th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was not aware the Belmont Stakes on June 8 would be personally significant. As it turned out, he has closer ties to the Belmont winner than he knew.
I’m giving Fort Larned another chance when he runs in the Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs.
Trainer Sandra Dono says she thinks it is now time for Lucy’s Bob Boy to head out of town and find out just how good he really might be. She plans to run Lucy’s Bob Boy in the July 6 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday June 8th, 2013
In this week's edition of Jeremy Plonk's Countdown to the Crown, he handicaps the field of 14 for the Belmont Stakes, which takes place at Belmont Park on Saturday, June 8, 2013.
Bob Pandolfo's biweekly Sharp Horses and Track Trends report, which includes tracks such as Tioga Downs and Meadowlands.
The pace made the race in both the Ketucky Derby and Preakness, though how the pace was made was counter to conventional thinking.
When Butch Reid dropped in a claim slip for $7,500 on Jan. 3, 2012, he was hoping Hello Lover “could win the next condition.” Three weeks later, the then-6-year-old gelding did win that condition, and over the next 11 months, he won seven more races for a $300,000 year.
