DRF Plus handicapping reports for Thursday, June 4
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DRF StaffJun 03, 2015
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Thursday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
McGee: Belmont Park pick four play for Friday, June 5
It isn’t often a trainer could run the defending Breeders’ Cup Classic winner in a Grade 1 race and have it be only the second most important race of his day.
Of the eight 3-year-olds scheduled to run in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, five – Frosted, Frammento, Keen Ice, Materiality, and Mubtaahij – will have run in the Derby and skipped the Preakness to await the Belmont. It is a strategy that has produced six Belmont winners in the past 12 runnings.
A proposal to alter U.S. federal tax laws in favor of horseplayers still has several more hurdles to overcome before the rules could be put into effect, an official of the racing organization that has organized support for the changes said Wednesday.
Legatissimo is the antepost favorite for the Group 1 Investec Oaks on Friday at Epsom Racecourse in England, but she has no insurmountable edge over several other fillies in what might prove to be a wide-open edition of the 1 1/2-mile classic for 3-year-old fillies.
If it were not for Robert Luttrell’s wife, Myrna, there might not be a Promise Me Silver attempting to become the first Texas-bred since Got Koko in 2002 to win a Grade 1 race on Saturday. Promise Me Silver carries the hopes of the Lone Star State’s breeding program into the Acorn, a one-mile race for 3-year-old fillies on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
The New York Racing Association and NBC Sports Group have extended a deal giving the network exclusive broadcast rights to the Belmont Stakes, the two groups said on Wednesday.
Last July, Clearly Now ran the race of his life, setting a track record cruising to victory in the seven-furlong Belmont Sprint. On Saturday, trainer Brian Lynch is hoping Clearly Now can duplicate that effort in the $250,000 True North.
The New York Racing Association has more than doubled the purse of the Tremont this year from $100,000 to $250,000. The result is a much better group than in 2014, when the race had to be delayed five days due to a lack of entries and eventually went with a four-horse field.