Watchmaker: Belmont pick four play for Saturday, June 20
The early pick four Saturday at Belmont beginning in race 2 is, to me, a good-looking sequence. Let’s go after it.
Mike WatchmakerJun 18, 2015
The early pick four Saturday at Belmont beginning in race 2 is, to me, a good-looking sequence. Let’s go after it.
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At 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Triple Crown hero American Pharoah walked off a Bob Hubbard Transportation horse van on the Santa Anita backstretch. American Pharoah was home.
Tencendur looks like a 5-1 chance and will likely start above that price, even if he drops a bit from his 8-1 morning line in Saturday’s Ohio Derby at ThistleDown.
One day, Her Emmynency was preparing for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last fall, and the next, she was in a fight for her life after coming down with a serious case of colitis. The question became not when Her Emmynency would start next but if she ever would race again.
Trip to Paris, who had to be supplemented into the race, upset the Group 1 Gold Cup on Thursday at Royal Ascot, but it was jockey Ryan Moore who stole the show.
It’s her ideal distance and it looks like she could get the ideal setup. So while Saturday’s Grade 3 Bed o’ Roses Handicap at Belmont Park was not the original goal for Dame Dorothy, it looks like it could be the ideal back-up plan.
Expect Royalty and I Am Jane Dough will be charged with running down Lasting Bubbles in the $50,000 Lane’s End Stallion Scholarship Stakes on Saturday night at Lone Star Park. The 7 1/2-furlong turf race for fillies and mares bred in Texas has brought together a competitive field of 12.
The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Southern California is exploring a plan to attach a $5 million bonus to the Pacific Classic if Triple Crown winner American Pharoah runs in the race, Del Mar officials said on Thursday.
You don’t name a horse Touchofstarquality without cause, and though it’s taken awhile, this 5-year-old son of Mineshaft lived up to his name last Saturday, winning a second-level allowance race by 5 3/4 lengths and earning a 99 Beyer Speed Figure.