Weekend Warrior for Saturday, Nov. 21: Picks for Delta Jackpot, Cardinal, My Charmer
Whitmore is the one I want Saturday against favored Exaggerator in the Delta Downs Jackpot
Mike WatchmakerNov 19, 2015
Whitmore is the one I want Saturday against favored Exaggerator in the Delta Downs Jackpot
Curlin to Mischief, an unraced half brother to champion Beholder and popular young sire Into Mischief, will debut at stud in 2016 at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel, Calif.
Jockey Victor Espinoza, who guided American Pharoah to wins in the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland earlier this year, is one of 12 jockeys set to participate in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong on Dec. 9.
The results of a Daily Racing Form survey on medication last month attracted scant attention when published Oct. 26, understandable since entries had just been taken for the Breeders' Cup races later that week. They are worth another look, however, as they contained a key finding that contradicts a theory that many in the industry have been promoting for years.
Tiago, a multiple Grade 1 winner and resident of Adena Springs’ stallion operation in Paris, Ky., was euthanized due to an inoperable chronic digestive disorder.
Soviet Song, a five-time Group 1 winner and Europe’s champion older horse of 2004, was euthanized Monday at Oak Lodge Stud in Paris, Ky. due to recurring foot problems, Racing Post reports.
Jockey Flavien Prat is hoping to resume riding Dec. 26, opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, more than three months after injuring his back in a two-horse spill at Los Alamitos.
Aqueduct has slotted a pair of $100,000 stakes on its Saturday card, plus a high-level optional-claiming race.
Exaggerator is almost certainly going to be the favorite in the Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs on Saturday, with Beyer Speed Figures of 85, 86, and 84, all in stakes against strong company, including a solid fourth behind Nyquist in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. There is little negative to say about this colt other than the possibility, not necessarily the probability, that he has peaked.
In 17 career races, Kiss Moon has established one of those good-bad-good-bad patterns that tend to confound trainers and horseplayers. So it would come as little surprise if Kiss Moon rebounds from a subpar performance to close out her season with a big effort Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs.