Yonkers: Friday 8/7 Analysis
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 8/7 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Brewster SmithAug 05, 2015
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 8/7 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Miss Frost won two stakes in 19 days last summer at Saratoga, but she hasn’t won since. On Saturday, she returns to the Spa in a contentious field of 12 entered in the $100,000 De La Rose Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile on the turf.
Allied Air Raid will be trainer Brad Cox’s first Louisiana Downs starter on Saturday in the $100,000 Prelude, and for the occasion Cox wanted to lock up a rider familiar with the Bossier City, La., track. He was able to secure one of the best on the grounds in Richard Eramia.
Unlike Friday’s Hall of Fame Stakes, in which he entered five horses, trainer Chad Brown only entered three in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Waya Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/2 miles.
The Whitney won’t be the only Grade 1 race owner Will S. Farish will have an interest in Saturday at Saratoga. Farish has purchased the 3-year-old filly Irish Jasper, who puts her three-race winning streak on the line in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Test Stakes at seven furlongs.
Trainer Chad Brown will have an enviable mix of both quantity and quality when sending out as many as five starters in Friday’s $200,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes.
Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes winner Aldous Snow and Grade 2 Nijinsky Stakes runner-up Golden Sabre are on target to make their next starts in the Grade 2 Sky Classic Stakes on Aug. 16, trainer Malcolm Pierce said.Aldous Snow captured his second consecutive Singspiel Stakes victory with a stalking trip on July 5 and will now cut back in distance for the Sky Classic.
The final meet of the Nebraska racing season gets underway Friday night when the Columbus Exposition & Racing puts on its 16-date meet at Agricultural Park.
Despite his reluctance to play road games, Lava Man managed to pile up enough points on his home courts to earn entry into the Racing Hall of Fame.
Bolo, the turf stakes winner who was third in the Santa Anita Derby earlier this year, has been turned out for 60 days and will miss an expected start in Sunday’s $150,000 La Jolla Handicap at Del Mar.