Meadowlands: Friday 5/15 Analysis
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Friday 5/15 card at The Meadowlands.
Derick GiwnerMay 13, 2015
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Friday 5/15 card at The Meadowlands.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Friday 5/15 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 5/15 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Two big days of racing at Pimlico, both offering 14 races with quality horses. There are a lot of betting opportunities, and we’ll be using DRF Formulator to find a few to play, as well as one to avoid.
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They might have had trouble rounding up enough horses for the Preakness Stakes, but that certainly wasn’t the case when it came to the Grade 2, $300,000 Dixie Stakes for older males on the turf.
The Indiana Horse Racing Commission has abruptly terminated a months-old drug-testing contract with Truesdail Laboratory in California after the lab failed to report finding illegal concentrations of drugs in three samples, the IHRC announced on Wednesday.
Last year’s champion 2-year-old trotting filly, Mission Brief, who set the world record of 1:50 3/5 at The Red Mile, makes her official 3-year-old debut Friday (May 15) in the opening leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes at the Meadowlands. Mission Brief earned $591,070 last year in nine wins including a season-ending victory in the Breeders Crown. She also broke stride in four races.
Jockey Angel Castillo was removed from his mounts during the middle of Tuesday’s card at Parx Racing after a search of the jockeys’ room at the track by Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission personnel turned up an electrical device, the top official of the commission said Wednesday.
Lemon Lashes will bring a two-race winning streak into Friday’s $42,000 optional-claiming feature at Gulfstream Park. The noteworthy aspect of the modest streak is that the victories came 18 months apart, with the most recent here last month in her first start for trainer Marty Wolfson.