Yonkers: Tuesday 5/26 Analysis
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Tuesday Afternoon 5/26 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Brewster SmithMay 25, 2015
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Tuesday Afternoon 5/26 card at Yonkers Raceway.
After solid second-place performances in the Illinois Derby and Peter Pan Stakes, Conquest Curlinate has proven to trainer Mark Casse and his owners that he is worthy of a Triple Crown race.
Trainer Ian Black said Excaper is set for the Grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday after posting a bullet four-furlong work in 46.80 seconds on the turf training track here Sunday.
Canada’s champion juvenile filly of 2014, Conquest Harlanate, is getting close to making her 2015 local debut after breezing five furlongs in 59.80 seconds on the turf training track here Sunday.
After running sixth in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 16, Danzig Moon will be pointed toward the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes at Woodbine on June 14, trainer Mark Casse said.
Trainer Joan Petrowski can count on Go Max showing up with another solid performance at Northlands Park on Wednesday evening. After all, there really isn’t a poor effort in his 13-race career. What she can’t be sure of is whether it will be good enough to win the six-furlong, first-level allowance race that headlines the first midweek card of the meet. Post time for the first of seven races is 6:30 p.m. Mountain, with the $17,600 feature carded as race 2.
Few standouts in the stakes races, but plan to single KHARAFA in the late pick 4, and lean heavily on CHRYSOLITE to start off the early pick 4 and OSTROLENKA to end it.
Jimmy Takter's powerful stable is always on display but it's an unknown youngster from conditioner Randy Beeckman that may be getting some attention.
Trip Notes by Michael Hammersly for races on May 23-24.
Fooled Again ran his record to 2 for 2 with an upset victory Sunday in the $50,000 Auburn Handicap at Emerald Downs.