Each week, TimeformUS Chief Figure Maker Craig Milkowski takes a look back at the weekend’s graded stakes and releases the TimeformUS Speed Figures for these races.
Beer: Aqueduct horses to watch for week of Dec. 11, 2017
Trip Notes by Michael Hammersly for stakes races run December 9-10 including the CashCall Futurity and Starlet.
Daily Racing Form writer Peter Thomas Fornatale looks at Sunday's card at Aqueduct.
This was not an easy call for the Los Alamitos stewards. I personally don’t agree with the call they made. Was Instilled Regard bumped a sixteenth out in the CashCall? Yes. Did it cost him a larger piece of the purse? I am not at all convinced it did.
Selections for Sunday's Hong Kong card.
Here’s a pick-four play to end the Sunday card at Gulfstream in which I’ll be relying on Jorge Navarro to have Can’t Say No ready to roll in race 9 after the flashy first-out winner was regrouped over at Gulf West following a disappointing loss in his most recent start in October.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, December 9, 2017 by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore.
Laurel Park caught my eye Saturday, running four stakes, two of which have horses I'm eager to back. At Los Alamitos, I am shooting for a price in the Starlet.
Although they attracted a combined total of only 10 entrants, the two Grade 1, $300,000 route races for 2-year-olds at Los Alamitos Race Course – the Los Alamitos CashCall Futurity and the Starlet – are the marquee races on Saturday's stakes schedule. But also of considerable interest is the first North America running of the Clasico Internacional del Caribe at Gulfstream Park, topped by the $300,000 Clasico, or Caribbean Classic, if you like.
