Goulding: Del Mar pick three for Sunday, Aug. 16
Race 3: I am going to start my pick three with (2) CAMINETTO as my top pick.
Randy GouldingAug 14, 2015
Race 3: I am going to start my pick three with (2) CAMINETTO as my top pick.
Last week’s simple $24 Whitney Day late pick four play brought back $216.50, so let’s plow some of the profits back into the $500,000-guaranteed pick four on Fourstardave Day. We’ll use the same basic strategy of singling in one leg and spreading as necessary in the others.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 8/16 card at Balmoral Park.
Hard to Stay Notgo was much the best Friday in the $50,000 Niagara Stakes at Finger Lakes, taking control of the six-furlong sprint nearing the stretch and going on to win by 7 3/4 lengths.
Carter Sales Co. will put on its annual summer yearling auction Sunday in Oklahoma City, and officials anticipate the sale could be the strongest in the seven-year history of the auction inaugurated in 2009.
Lady Rosberg, a smashing winner of the Boeing Handicap in her last start, is likely to be a prohibitive favorite Sunday in the $65,000 Emerald Distaff Handicap on the Longacres Mile undercard.
Trainer Paula Capestro has learned the value of a patient approach, which helps explain why she’s spent the past three months coddling and cajoling Fleet Eagle while trying to get him back into peak form for Sunday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs.
It’s a little early in the year for an East Coast-West Coast showdown in the juvenile division, but Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special matches California invader Exaggerator against local debut winner Saratoga Mischief.
As far as I know, Barbara Walter and John Nerud – who died this week at the age of 102 – never met and were never pen pals, although nothing about Walter would surprise me. (Or Nerud, for that matter.)
Kieren Fallon, 50, is hitting the restart button on his career Tuesday, shifting his base from California to Kentucky and Indiana, panning to ride mostly at Ellis Park and Indiana Downs this month as he gears up for what he hopes will be a successful meet for him at the all-turf meet at Kentucky Downs, as well as at upcoming meets at Churchill Downs and at Keeneland.