Hammersly: Los Alamitos pick three play for Sunday, July 12
Some competitive races on the back end of the Sunday card give the last pick three some appeal.
Michael HammerslyJul 10, 2015
Some competitive races on the back end of the Sunday card give the last pick three some appeal.
Woodbine Oaks runner-up London Tower will be hoping to get off to a better start in Sunday’s $250,000 Bison City Stakes at 1 1/16 miles for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine.
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Previous (#7, ML 5-1) returns in Friday's eighth race at Belmont Park, a one-mile optional claimer on turf. It will be her first start since finishing sixth by 6 1/2-lengths in an optional claimer April 15 at Aqueduct. The second-, third-, and fifth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts. Get the Key Race report as part of DRF Plus.
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While the Fasig-Tipton summer selected horses of racing age sale lacked the high-level fireworks of previous editions, Thursday’s renewal showed strength among its blue-collar offerings with the highest median price in the sale’s three-year history.
The New Graduate Series set out to give a platform for 4-year-olds to transition into aged racing. For some of those 4-year-olds the transition has already been completed. On Saturday night at the Meadowlands, the $250,000 Graduate final for trotters features the 4-year-old that has blossomed into this year’s premier aged performer in JL Cruze. Surprisingly it will be last year’s most dominant sophomore, Father Patrick, seeking redemption in a rivalry he’s currently losing 0 to 2.
The North American yearling calendar got off to a good start on Thursday, with the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling sale posting across-the-board gains in the strongest renewal in nearly a decade.