Moment Is Right shows guts in Astoria win
Moment Is Right sped clear early beneath Joel Rosario and turned back a stretch bid from 7-10 favorite Decked Out to win Thursday’s $237,500 Astoria Stakes by a length and one-half.
Dave LitfinJun 04, 2015
Moment Is Right sped clear early beneath Joel Rosario and turned back a stretch bid from 7-10 favorite Decked Out to win Thursday’s $237,500 Astoria Stakes by a length and one-half.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Saturday 6/6 card at Balmoral Park.
Despite all American Pharoah’s obvious strengths, I would counsel casual fans and serious players not to bet him – except possibly for a $2 souvenir ticket on what might be history’s 12th sweep of the Triple Crown.
Lady Shipman, a two-time stakes winner this season, will be difficult to deny in Saturday’s $60,000 Crank It Up Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Twilight Eclipse ended a long losing streak when he won the Man o’ War Stakes last month, and he’ll try to make it two in a row Saturday in the Grade 1, $1 million Manhattan.
California-based turf filly Spanish Queen is headed east for a July 4 showdown with the undefeated New York-based Lady Eli.
California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year, had his first workout at Ascot Racecourse in England on Thursday, the venue for his next start in the $806,925 Prince of Wales’s Stakes on June 17.
The mare Babe On the Fly produced the winner of last year’s Ruidoso Quarter Horse Derby and has two chances to do the same on Saturday with offspring Jm Specialwynn and Glock. But the 3-year-olds are not twins. Jm Specialwynn and Glock are half-siblings through an embryo transfer process and rank as capable contenders in this year’s renewal of the Grade 1, $815,045 Ruidoso Derby.
Pain and Misery and Where’s the Moon should start as the top two choices in the $55,000 Charles Taylor Derby at the Downs at Albuquerque on Saturday after a run-in with Competitive Edge. Both faced the Grade 1 winner last out in the Pat Day Mile at Churchill Downs, with Pain and Misery running a bold second to that one at 27-1, and Where’s the Moon encountering trouble when seventh, one start after his runner-up finish in the Sunland Derby.
Tepin affirmed her status as a rising star in the female turf ranks with a victory last month in the Grade 2 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile at her home base. She now takes her show on the road against a strong home team in the Grade 1, $700,000 Just a Game Stakes at a mile Saturday on the Belmont turf.