Private Zone targeting ambitious schedule
Private Zone worked a half-mile in 47.21 and galloped out five-eighths in 59.73 early Wednesday morning at Gulfstream Park West with jockey Carlos H. Marquez Jr. aboard.
Mike WelschApr 08, 2015
Private Zone worked a half-mile in 47.21 and galloped out five-eighths in 59.73 early Wednesday morning at Gulfstream Park West with jockey Carlos H. Marquez Jr. aboard.
Let’s make this an annual event. I am sitting on press row at the Final Four. The Santa Anita Derby appears on my laptop during the first half of the first game of semifinals. The horse I have been touting for a month is favored. And nearly runs off my screen. Last year, it was California Chrome; this year, Dortmund.
Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird has been inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame’s Thoroughbred male horse category. He is joined by jockey Stewart Elliott, breeder Robert Anderson, Woodbine television personality Jim Bannon, and trainer Roger Laurin to make up the Thoroughbred class of 2015.
The highest-level race Friday at Pimlico is a third-level optional-claiming sprint for fillies and mares. Because there are six entrants, it has been carded as race 2, meaning it will not be part of the Rainbow 6 or 12 percent takeout pick five.
Download positive ROI trainer statistics for Wednesday's cards at Aqueduct, Charles Town, Evangeline Downs, Gulfstream Park, Hawthorne, Keeneland, Mahoning Valley Racecourse, Mountaineer Park, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Tampa Bay Downs, and Turf Paradise. The report features top trainer angles, top trainer/jockey combinations, and profitable betting angles based on a trainer's record in similar situations.
In an unforgettable day at the races, fillies owned by former Kentucky governor Brereton C. Jones won two major Kentucky Oaks preps last Saturday. Lovely Maria delivered as the favorite in the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland and Include Betty came through at 18-1 in the Grade 3, $400,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park.
Woodbine will kick off its marathon 133-day meet Saturday, highlighted once again by the 156th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate on July 5.
Turfway Park in northern Kentucky closed its winter-spring meet March 29 with an increase of 8 percent in all-sources handle, according to figures released by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Download a list of horses exiting races where two or more of the competitors have come back to win their next starts. Wednesday's report features races from Aqueduct, Charles Town, Evangeline Downs, Gulfstream Park, Hawthorne, Keeneland, Mahoning Valley Racecourse, Mountaineer Park, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Tampa Bay Downs, and Turf Paradise.
Mary Rampellini ranks the top 3-year-old males and fillies pointing to races at Oaklawn Park.