Looks like Kharafa and Lubash again in Mohawk
The gang will not be all there in the $200,000 Mohawk Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for New York-breds on Saturday at Belmont Park.
David GreningOct 21, 2015
The gang will not be all there in the $200,000 Mohawk Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for New York-breds on Saturday at Belmont Park.
Saratoga Snacks will try to win the Empire Classic for the second time in three years when he heads a field of nine entered Wednesday for Saturday’s running at Belmont Park.
The suspense was killing them. They’d never felt anything like this before. Then again, they’d never been in a spot like this before, with a racehorse all dressed up and ready to run in a Breeders’ Cup race but no guarantee he would make it into an over-subscribed field. Then the word came down from the selection committee Wednesday morning, and just like that the Double JH Stable of Jan and Jerry Hawthorne were looking at their first Breeders’ Cup runner in No Silent, a gelded son of Silent Name who only recently broke through with his first graded stakes win at the ripe old age of 6.
I know these truths to be self-evident: I am not as good a handicapper as I was 20 years ago because I don’t have the time to spend on all the details, and I don’t concentrate as well as I once did. I am, however, a much better player than I was 20 years ago, or 10 years ago, or five years ago, or ever.
There is a strong contingent coming from Europe this year for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, and heading the list of 20 pre-entries for the Juvenile Fillies Turf is Illuminate
The path Gloryzapper will take this winter is likely to be better known when she starts in a second-level optional $62,500 claimer at 1 1/16 miles on dirt at Santa Anita on Friday.
Favorite Tale will unquestionably have taken the most circuitous route before getting into the starting gate for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland.
There weren’t many surprises when pre-entries were released Wednesday for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, which shapes up as one of the more fascinating races on Breeders’ Cup weekend.
The stage is set for a European-American throwdown Oct. 31 in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland. Of the 20 pre-entries, led by Win and You’re In challenge winners Stephanie’s Kitten, Watsdachances, Photo Call, and Legatissimo, there is a close split of European- and American-based runners, with the Americans outnumbering the Europeans 11-9.
Bootleggers Wife paid $2.50 when she won the $51,850 Bird of Pay Stakes at Northlands Park on Sept. 4. She will be a short price again when she runs in the $50,000 Freedom of City at Northlands on Friday.