Gierkink's preview: All in the family for Owens pair
Trainer Steve Owens has the opportunity to sweep both $125,000 Ontario-sired stakes here Saturday, with the speedy half-siblings Seffeara and Zazinga.
Ron GierkinkSep 26, 2014
Trainer Steve Owens has the opportunity to sweep both $125,000 Ontario-sired stakes here Saturday, with the speedy half-siblings Seffeara and Zazinga.
DRF handicapper Marcus Hersh analyzes Saturday's card at Belmont Park.
It’s the biggest day of Belmont’s fall meet, with six graded stakes worth $3.4 million on tap, comprised of the Kelso Handicap, the Beldame, and an all-Grade 1 pick four with a $500,000 guaranteed pool on the Flower Bowl, Vosburgh, Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, and Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Flashy Gal is the filly most likely to take the 10th race Friday at Churchill Downs.
Breezefigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, Sept. 27th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
Jeter will be at Belmont Park on Friday. No, not the future Hall of Fame shortstop who was scheduled to play his last home game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday evening, but the New York-bred gelding who breaks from the rail against open company in race 2, a $25,000 claiming sprint at 6 1/2 furlongs
Trainer Wesley Ward routinely brought racing-fit runners here for opening weekend of the meet in the past, usually with some success. However, his mid-season visits have been few and far between in recent years, and rather unproductive.
Here are four live longshots running in Grade 1 races Saturday at Belmont Park and Santa Anita.
Zivo returns to a Belmont surface on which he has done his best work and he is my pick in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.
Thursday looks like a washout, according to the weather prognosticators, who say heavy rain and wind is a sure thing. It would appear then, that five races scheduled for turf are in jeopardy of being switched to a sloppy main track, including all four legs of the late pick four.