Illman: How I'd play Keeneland for Saturday, April 11
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his best plays for Saturday's program at Keeneland.
Dan IllmanApr 10, 2015
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his best plays for Saturday's program at Keeneland.
UZZIEL (#4, 8-1) is up against Beholder in Friday’s Santa Lucia Stakes at Santa Anita, hence high odds. Uzziel set/pressed hot fractions her last two starts and is due for an easier trip. Not sure if she’ll get it facing both Beholder and Tiz Midnight, but at 8-1 Uzziel offers value on the front end.
A U.S. trustee for the creditors of a bankrupt company owned by Mike Moreno, the founder of Southern Equine Stables, has said in a petition he is seeking $230 million from Moreno and his affiliated companies, claiming Moreno breached his fiduciary duties to the company to the detriment of its creditors.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 4/12 card at Balmoral Park.
Is it possible for a stallion to earn three sire championships and be under-appreciated in the country where he led the sire list three times in four years and has ranked in the top 10 for each of the last nine years? If that stallion’s name is Giant’s Causeway, the answer is clearly yes.
Some good-sized, competitive fields in the day’s final three contests give the last pick three of the day some appeal.
Sunland Park will close out its meet on Monday with a look to the future as the track puts on a pair of stakes for 2-year-olds, the Copper Top Futurity, with one division for fillies and the other for colts and geldings.
Longtime Northern California trainer William J. Morey Jr., 74, died Friday morning at a rehabilitation facility in Los Altos. Calif., after a long battle with cancer.
There has been plenty of uninformed speculation about California Chrome’s English adventure, and whether it will turn out to be excellent or not. Just for a change of pace, how about a little informed speculation on the subject?
Rebranded enters the $75,000 Sunland Park Handicap on Sunday fresh off a track-record performance. He is part of a six-horse field for the 1 1/8-mile race that serves as one of the final stakes of the New Mexico meet that continues through Monday.