BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday September 17th
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday September 17th
Bob FierroSep 16, 2011
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday September 17th
Belmont has the Grade 1, but Charles Town has the richest race in the nation Saturday. Belmont’s headliner is a terrific renewal of the $250,000 Garden City Stakes, but the ungraded Charles Town Oaks boasts a purse of $400,000. North America’s three other graded stakes Saturday, all Grade 3 races, are the $250,000 Summer Stakes and the $200,000 Natalma – Woodbine’s two big juvenile turf races that set the stage for Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile card – and the $100,000 Pucker Up at Arlington.
In 6 starts, Ann’s Smart Dancer has 5 wins and a second, including three stakes for Pennsylvania-breds at Parx Racing. So it has been a pretty nice return for a $7,500 claim of a horse that could no longer run by the time she was led off the track.
Masked Marvel gave the trainer-jockey team of John Gosden and William Buick a second straight success in the Group 1 St. Leger Stakes on Saturday, winning the test of stamina at Doncaster in England by three lengths a year after Arctic Cosmos had scored in the race for 3-year-olds.
Join Mike Watchmaker, Dan Illman, Mike Beer, Kenny Peck, Brad Thomas and other DRF handicappers as they preview the weekend's biggest stakes races.