Kentucky Derby: Litfin on trips
Derby Angles features DRF handicappers looking at individual handicapping factors and how they may play out in this year’s Kentucky Derby.
Dave LitfinApr 29, 2015
Derby Angles features DRF handicappers looking at individual handicapping factors and how they may play out in this year’s Kentucky Derby.
Trainer Bob Baffert and owner Bernie Schiappa made a visit on Tuesday to Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, Ky., about an hour from Churchill Downs, to visit some old friends, Silver Charm and Game On Dude.
Caribbean Cowboy, the best Iowa-bred juvenile last season, faces a stiff test when taking on open company in Friday night’s $75,000 Golden Circle, a six-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds.
Chris Roberts, the executive director and general manager at Northlands Park, is looking forward to the 2015 Thoroughbred meet that starts on Friday evening with seven races.
The stakes-placed shipper Final Redemption makes her first start on Polytrack on Friday at Woodbine in a first-level allowance route for fillies and mares.
The live racing season is starting two weeks later than usual, but otherwise it’s business as usual at Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack.The western New York state track will launch its 155-day season that runs through Dec. 9 on Friday, coinciding with simulcasts of the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby on opening weekend.
Sheldon Russell, who fractured ribs and punctured a lung in a Saturday spill at Pimlico, was feeling better and in good spirits on Tuesday, according to his agent, Marty Leonard.
The first stakes races of the Parx season this Saturday have come up strong.
The 2015 meet at Hazel Park Raceway brings with it a sense of stability not seen in Michigan’s Thoroughbred industry for quite some time.
Derick Giwner's analysis of the Thursday 4/30 card at Yonkers Raceway.