Woodbine Harness: Thursday 10/29 Analysis
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 10/29 card at Woodbine Harness.
Garnet BarnsdaleOct 28, 2015
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 10/29 card at Woodbine Harness.
The veteran campaigner Neck ’n Neck found new life when he attempted a marathon distance for the first time, snapping a lengthy losing streak. He will attempt to continue his momentum in that niche in the Grade 2, $200,000 Marathon Stakes on Friday’s Breeders’ Cup undercard at Keeneland.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 10/29 card at Yonkers Raceway.
The combination of opening a month earlier than it did for its inaugural meet last fall and no competition from its nearby neighbor in West Virginia means bigger fields and higher purses at Mahoning Valley Race Course.
Shesanaturalblonde can handle either Woodbine surface, which may be to her benefit in Friday’s allowance headliner, which is scheduled for a mile on the grass. With all the rain in the forecast for this week, however, it seems probable that the race will be moved to the Polytrack and lengthened to 1 1/16 miles.
Summersault (#4, 6-1) returns in Wednesday's second race at Belmont Park, a one-mile allowance optional claimer on turf. It will be her first start since finishing first by one length in an allowance Sept. 6 at Saratoga. The second-, third-, fourth-, and seventh-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus. Sign up for DRF Plus here.
My initial introduction to Alan Charles was during the 2010 Passover Pace at Monticello Raceway. I had no idea at the time about the road Charles had traveled leading up to that Passover Pace and having read his "Walking Out the Other Side", I'm still left in awe of his life path.
American Pharoah took his last flight out of California on Tuesday morning and has arrived back at his old Kentucky home, essentially for good.
Multiple stakes winner Mixed Pleasure, a resident of Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized Monday due to complications from colic. He was 30.
Kiaran McLaughlin wasn’t trying to be funny after finding out that a 3-year-old has never won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint despite 24 attempts, including four losing favorites. “Well, this is a case where 1 for 25 is going to look pretty good,” he said.