King Kranz wins maiden in Lost in the Fog
The start of a new year offers a clean slate. Few barns needed a new beginning more than the stable of trainer John Terranova.
David GreningJan 01, 2016
The start of a new year offers a clean slate. Few barns needed a new beginning more than the stable of trainer John Terranova.
There are three graded stakes races on the Saturday card. Let's try to take down some of the shorter-priced runners.
Beer: How I'd play Gulfstream Park for Saturday, Jan. 2
Horse-for-course handicappers will have to decide between Storied Lady and Perfect Freud in Sunday's $69,000 second-level allowance feature for fillies and mares at Aqueduct.
Sunland Park was scheduled to close out 2015 with its most prestigious race for Quarter Horses, but a snowstorm forced the cancellation of last weekend's card, and the New Mexico track instead will start the year with its Grade 1, $350,000 Championship on Sunday.
Quirky had a perfect 2015 campaign until she finished sixth behind Heza Dasha Fire in the $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on Dec. 12. She is back in the $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap on Sunday at Los Alamitos.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Monday 1/4 card at Woodbine Harness.
Chad Brown was the leading trainer on the New York Racing Association circuit in 2015 in both wins (131) and purse money ($12,766,542). Todd Pletcher, the leading trainer in North American earnings each year since 2010, was second in both categories in 2015 with 123 wins and $12,086,440 in purses.
The connections of Empire Dreams and Saratoga Snacks certainly won't mind seeing fellow New York-bred Effinex head out of the country for a possible start in the Dubai World Cup.
After initially saying Financial Modeling could make his next start in New York, trainer Chad Brown altered course and transferred the 5-year-old son of Street Sense to south Florida, where he will target the Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream on Feb. 6.