Trainer Chad Brown took center stage here Sunday morning, working his two Kentucky Derby contenders, My Man Sam and Shagaf, over a fast track at Churchill Downs.
The back end of this nine-race Sunday program looks pretty chalky, with one of the uber-trainers (Shug, Todd, Kiaran) most likely to win the race 7 feature and Todd likely to win the finale with KISMET’S HEELS. But I do believe there’s a way to leverage an early sequence into a decent score, so here we go.
DRF handicapper Dan Illman outlines his strategy for playing Saturday's card at Keeneland.
With two stakes in the late pick four at Aqueduct on Saturday, the sequence looks like a good one. Here’s a look at the races, followed by a play using TicketMaker.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, April 23rd by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
My preferences from a pace standpoint in this Kentucky Derby are the horses that should race in the second or third flight.
From the three horses in Saturday night's Charles Town Classic who ran in a strong edition of the Santa Anita Handicap, I am going with Hard Aces.
Lexington Stakes winner has been cleverly managed to pick off low-hanging fruit while largely avoiding the big hitters. This was his third stakes win of the year at three different tracks, including two in point-scoring races.
CREATOR, third behind CUPID and WHITMORE four weeks earlier in the Rebel, continued his forward progress this spring by capturing the Arkansas Derby, the last of the 34 races in which horses could earn points toward a berth in the 2016 Kentucky Derby on May 7.
Brad Free's horses to watch at Los Alamitos for the week of April 18.
