Harness: Sharp Horses and Track Trends from Apr. 2 - Apr. 4
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Hoosier, Yonkers and others.
Bob PandolfoApr 10, 2015
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends report featuring horses from Balmoral, Hoosier, Yonkers and others.
Sky Preacher (ML 8-1) returns Friday in race 7, a first-level allowance at Santa Anita. It will be his first start since finishing eighth by 18 1/4 lengths in the Grade 1 FrontRunner at Santa Anita on Sept. 27. The top four finishers -- American Pharoah, Calculator, Texas Red, and Lord Nelson -- from that race came back to win their next starts.
A veteran wheeling back in eight days and a second-start maiden longshot are the keys to this handicapper’s Saturday at Santa Anita.
Jeff Bamond and his son, trainer Jeff Jr., have experienced strong success in this year’s Levy series at Yonkers Raceway. Their Levy contingent is led by defending champion P H Supercam, undefeated in three legs. With the series in its fourth of five preliminary legs this Saturday, P H Supercam will get a week off and Bamond’s other three will seek a second spot in the lucrative final slated for April 25.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, April 11th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
A little more than a month after being claimed for $40,000 at Fair Grounds on March 5, Wagson recouped a large portion of his purchase price by winning the $50,000 Premiere Stakes at Lone Star Park on the track’s opening night Thursday.
Apprentice jockey Angel Cruz was transported by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center to be examined for a potential head injury as a result of a spill in Thursday’s eighth race, according to New York Racing Association officials.
Alsvid overcame a stumbled start to run down Ivan Fallunovalot and win the Grade 3, $300,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on Thursday at Oaklawn Park. Alsvid covered six furlongs in 1:08.36, the quickest Count Fleet time since Bonapaw won the race in 1:08 in 2001.
Adelaide, the winner of the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park last summer and the Group 1 Cox Plate in Australia last October, is among 13 runners in Saturday’s $3,076,000 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Australia.
Jimmy Takter-trained Canepa Hanover and Whom Shall I Fear headline a group of 12 Hambletonian hopefuls scheduled to qualify Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack.