Yonkers: Tuesday 10/27 Analysis
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday Afternoon 10/27 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Matt RoseOct 26, 2015
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday Afternoon 10/27 card at Yonkers Raceway.
The last time Kathleen O’Connell saddled a horse for a major event in Kentucky there wasn’t much hope of winning. But when O’Connell leads over Lady Shipman for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland on Saturday, things will be considerably different. Lady Shipman figures as a major contender, if not the outright favorite, in the 5 1/2-furlong race.
More than 1,800 respondents to a survey posted recently on the Daily Racing Form website were evenly split on whether the regulated anti-bleeding medication furosemide should be legal to use on race day while ranking the issue near the bottom on a list of priorities for the sport to address.
Woodbine will move Saturday’s first post time to 12:20 p.m. Eastern to better align post times with that day’s Breeders’ Cup card at Keeneland.
Peggy O has quickly blown through her Ontario-sired conditions in four starts this year and will step up to stakes company for the first time in the $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes on Nov. 7 at Woodbine, trainer Catherine Day Phillips said.
It’s taken a while, but at age 4, Mexikoma appears to finally be realizing the potential he hinted at in 2013. On Wednesday at Belmont Park he’ll step up in class in an optional-claiming race that could produce a starter or two for the Grade 1 Cigar Mile on Nov. 28.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah zoomed a half-mile in 46.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Monday, the last workout of a legendary career that ends Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. If the ease of Monday’s workout is an indication, American Pharoah’s status as the favorite for the BC Classic is well deserved.
After a minor hiccup last week, all has gone according to plan for Beholder, who showed her readiness to take on males on Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic with a five-furlong drill on Monday that Daily Racing Form clocked in 59.27 seconds.
With a strong threat of rain mid-week and the potential for a soft turf course on the weekend, trainer Bill Mott called an audible Monday morning, electing to enter Lea in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile as opposed to Saturday’s $2 million Mile on the turf.
In his first week back from a serious back injury, jockey David Lopez Lopez collected nine wins from 20 mounts at Golden Gate Fields.