Balmoral: Sunday 7/19 Analysis
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 7/19 card at Balmoral Park.
Jeremey DayJul 17, 2015
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 7/19 card at Balmoral Park.
The stakes-winning mare Final Trick has three foals racing on the Sunday program at Lone Star.
As the Lone Star Park meet was coming to a close last year, there was a hopeful feeling historical racing might be approved to help sagging purses in Texas. But as Lone Star wraps up this year’s meet on Sunday, the mood is different.
Great sire that he was, the late Dynaformer has never established himself as a sire of sires. Dynaformer’s son Quiet Force, the winner of the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap on July 11, is unlikely to change that statistic, even if he eventually improves enough to merit a chance at stud, but he is yet another reminder of just how good his late sire was at siring racehorses, no matter their prowess at stud.
Frosted, the Wood Memorial winner and Belmont Stakes runner-up, worked five furlongs in 1:01.90 Friday morning over Saratoga’s main track in preparation for the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy on Aug. 1.
While a $50,000 purse might seem like low-hanging fruit to anyone with a fast 2-year-old, only five horses were entered to compete in Sunday’s six-furlong Emerald Express for colts and geldings. For veteran trainer Bill Tollett, who will saddle likely favorite Gold Rush Dancer, it’s a prime opportunity to win an Emerald Downs stakes race for the first time in nearly a decade.
James Graham is not the least bit intimidated by his new surroundings in the Del Mar Jockeys’ room. Then again, James Graham does not seem to be the kind of fellow who can be intimidated at all. As a kid in Dublin he grew up tough enough that at some point there were interested adults who thought he had the stuff to be a jockey. And they were right.
Janet Reid, who has worked in the horse identification office for nearly 34 years, will be leaving the New York Racing Association when the Belmont meet ends Sunday.
Tonalist, the runner-up in two graded stakes in his last two starts, worked six furlongs in 1:13.04 over the Belmont main track Friday morning in preparation for a start in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 8.
DRF handicapper Kenny Peck provides analysis of a pick four on Saturday's program at Delaware Park.