Belmont: DRF Plus handicapping report for May 3, 2014
DRF Plus handicapping analysis for Belmont Park on Saturday, May 3.
DRF StaffMay 02, 2014
DRF Plus handicapping analysis for Belmont Park on Saturday, May 3.
DRF Plus closer looks for Santa Anita on Saturday, May 2.
DRF Plus closer looks for Belmont on Saturday, May 3.
It’s a little-noted fact: The 2013 Kentucky Derby was a landmark edition in modern Derby history. Why? The horses that broke from posts 1 through 5 finished, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, the best showing ever by inside-drawn horses in a 20-horse Derby field. Yes – ever.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday May 3rd, 2014
DRF Plus closer looks for Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3.
The first stakes race on Kentucky Oaks Day gets underway in the fifth with the La Troienne, and in what has become all too common in Grade 1 races for older fillies and mares, the field is short.
A pair of wins by high-class turf runners, Regally Ready and Jack Milton, highlighted the Thursday card at Churchill Downs.
Once again, all three scheduled turf races have been moved to the main track. At least that will have no bearing on the $100,000 Affirmed Success Stakes (race 3), which attracted a field of six older New York-bred sprinters.
After several inches of rain on Wednesday, all three scheduled turf races including the featured $100,000 Elusive Quality Stakes were switched to the main track.