Northfield: Wednesday 10/28 Analysis + Pick Four ticket
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 10/28 card at Northfield Park.
Jeremey DayOct 26, 2015
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 10/28 card at Northfield Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita ended its 19-day autumn meeting with declines in average all-sources and ontrack handle and an increase in attendance, according to a track official.
Both daily and total all-sources mutuel handle at the Northlands Park meet this year showed increases from last year.
What happened to Corey Lanerie this summer at Saratoga will always remain a mystery – especially to Lanerie himself.
Smooth Roller has made just four starts, and in that time went from being an unraced maiden to the winner of the Grade 1 Awesome Again at Santa Anita last time out. Since his arrival here at Keeneland, he has done very little, merely jogging nearly every day.
Like most natives of Lexington, Ky., trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is happy to see that after more than three decades the Breeders’ Cup has finally come to this city’s historic racetrack, Keeneland. But what really has McLaughlin jazzed about the 32nd Breeders’ Cup is the four-horse contingent he is bringing, all of whom have a reasonable chance to win their respective races.
Sticksstatelydude was withheld from Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile due to a tendon strain in his right foreleg, trainer and part-owner Greg Burchell said Monday morning, hours before entries were due.
Four months after the chaotic opening day of the Del Mar summer meeting, the popular San Diego racetrack will launch its 20-day autumn meeting Thursday in a more tranquil setting.
Dancing Brave might as well have come to Santa Anita in 1986 for the third edition of the Breeders’ Cup Turf with a cluster of footmen and butlers stationed outside his stall. Royalty – that’s what the 3-year-old colt looked like, his bitter defeat in the Epsom Derby having given way to a blistering romp in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the official performance rating of which (141) cast Dancing Brave in an epic light. He went off at odds of 1-2 in the Turf, and victory seemed absolutely assured all the way up to the point where jockey Pat Eddery started scrubbing on Dancing Brave a half-mile out and got very little response. The colt chunked home fourth and set off what has become nearly 30 years later an abiding Breeders’ Cup narrative: No Arc winner has come back the same season to win a Breeders’ Cup race.
Like big fields? This is a good week for that, from Kentucky to California. Fourteen California-breds entered the $200,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies on Thursday at Del Mar, opening day of the five-week Bing Crosby fall meet.