Goldfeder: What Was I Thinking - Spiral Stakes
It is not often when you bet a race, end up cashing the win ticket and a nice exacta, and then come away asking yourself, “What was I thinking?”
Lonnie GoldfederMar 25, 2015
It is not often when you bet a race, end up cashing the win ticket and a nice exacta, and then come away asking yourself, “What was I thinking?”
On a sunny Wednesday morning at Oaklawn Park, champion Work All Week had his first published work since winning the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The Eclipse Award-winning sprinter arrived in Arkansas last Tuesday. He was freshened after the Breeders’ Cup and resumed training earlier this year at an Ocala, Fla., farm, according to trainer Roger Brueggemann.
Download positive ROI trainer statistics for Wednesday's cards at Charles Town, Gulfstream Park, Mountaineer Park, Mahoning Valley Racecourse, 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.
I still like Dortmund to win the Kentucky Derby, but I can make a case for 10 other contenders to be part of the superfecta.
Five horses trained by Kenny Smith at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., have been cleared to run by track stewards after tests on the horses came back clean for high cobalt concentrations, according to the chief steward and Smith.
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 Charles Town, Gulfstream Park, Mountaineer Park, Mahoning Valley Racecourse, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Tampa Bay Downs, and Turf Paradise.
The California-bred with the humble pedigree and the first-time, one-in-a-million owners always has been a racing outsider, and so it will be Saturday night at Meydan Racecourse when California Chrome breaks from post 9 in the $10 million Dubai World Cup.
Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird leads the list of 15 Thoroughbred-racing candidates eligible to be elected to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2015.
Upstart, the 8-5 morning line favorite, drew the outside post in a field of nine for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
Caviart Luca is not a horse who wins many races, but he also rarely embarrasses himself. The 4-year-old pacer, who on Saturday competes in the $59,000 final of the Clyde Hirt Series at the Meadowlands, has three victories in 30 lifetime races, but has earned a check in 20 of his most recent 21 starts, a span that dates back to October 2013.