Jerardi: Upstart brings Beyer consistency to Florida Derby
I am reasonably certain I have never picked a winner on Polytrack or correctly projected a Beyer Speed Figure on that surface.
Dick JerardiMar 26, 2015
I am reasonably certain I have never picked a winner on Polytrack or correctly projected a Beyer Speed Figure on that surface.
Download a list of horses exiting races where two or more of the competitors have come back to win their next starts. Thursday's report features races from Aqueduct, Charles Town, Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds, Golden Gate, Gulfstream Park, Laurel Park, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, and Santa Anita.
Bob Pandolfo's Sharp Horses and Track Trends for March 19 to 22, 2015.
Mary Rampellini's horses to watch at Oaklawn Park for the week of March 26.
Absolutely Cool tries to prove his resurgence to win a second straight Phoenix Gold Cup wasn’t an aberration in Saturday’s $35,000 Coyote Handicap at Turf Paradise.
Bold Cait, a winner against open company in her last two starts out of town, challenges multiple stakes winner Justalittlesmoke for early-season supremacy among Ohio-bred 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s $75,000 Southern Park Stakes at Mahoning Valley Race Course.
Shared Belief, winner of two major stakes for older horses this year at Santa Anita, will make his next start in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia on April 19.
Smart Strike, a Grade 1 winner and two-time leading North American sire, was euthanized Wednesday due to complications from laminitis. He was 23. The son of Mr. Prospector was a cornerstone of the Lane’s End stallion roster, in the midst of his 18th season at the Versailles, Ky. farm. His stud fee was $100,000 in 2015. Smart Strike was known as one of North America’s most versatile stallions, siring elite runners on all surfaces and in several countries. He was North America’s leading sire in 2007 and 2008, coinciding with the two Horse of the Year campaigns of his greatest son, Curlin.
Oaklawn Park will raise purses between $1,000 and $2,000 per race for the final 10 dates of the meet, the track announced Wednesday. The increase will go into effect Saturday. It is the third purse increase of the meet, and it will make for allowances as high as $72,000 in value and maiden special weights worth a record $66,000. The bottom-level purse will be $21,000.
The Grade 1-placed 3-year-old The Truth Or Else breezed five furlongs in company in 1:00.40 on Wednesday at Oaklawn. He worked in blinkers with the intent of adding them for the Arkansas Derby, said trainer Ken McPeek. Jockey Calvin Borel was aboard for the move, which came first after the renovation break.