Woodbine Harness: Thursday 4/2 Analysis
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 4/2 card at Woodbine Harness.
Garnet BarnsdaleApr 01, 2015
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Thursday 4/2 card at Woodbine Harness.
Seventy-nine years ago, central Kentucky horseman Hal Price Headley shook hands with Chicago-based concessionaire Joe Wolken, and a partnership for the ages was formed. The mastermind and co-founder of Keeneland Racecourse took a leap of faith that day during the depths of the Great Depression that a small, family-run business called Turf Catering could provide food service worthy of the model track he was building in the heart of Kentucky horse country. “World class” is what Headley was looking for, and world class is what he got.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Thursday 4/2 card at Yonkers Raceway.
The Fasig-Tipton Texas 2-year-olds in training sale ended the auction company’s 18-year stint in the Lone Star State on a down note, finishing with across-the-board declines in the midst of a troubled market in the state.
The Arizona Department of Racing is investigating how two runners from the barn of trainer Dan McFarlane raced under the other’s name in the seventh race at Turf Paradise last Saturday, with one of them winning.
Carpe Diem was assigned post 5 as the even-money morning-line favorite for the Blue Grass Stakes, the Keeneland showcase that will be run Saturday on its new date on the racing calendar.
Beach Memories, P H Supercam, and Polak A will try to remain unbeaten in the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series on Saturday at Yonkers Raceway, but Beach Memories will do it from a new barn. The 5-year-old pacer has moved from the stable of trainer Ron Burke to trainer Scott DiDomenico.
Positive ROI Report for Wednesday, April 1.
Jockey Chuck C. Lopez is the nine furlongs of the Wood Memorial from making it to the Kentucky Derby with El Kabeir. Lopez, 54, has never ridden in a Kentucky Derby, and if he were somehow to win it this year, he would match Bill Shoemaker as the oldest rider to accomplish the feat.