The days of Wild in the Saddle running in low-class races are long gone. Sunday, she runs in the $100,000 Dream of Summer Stakes for California-bred fillies and mares at a mile at Santa Anita in an attempt to score the first stakes victory of her career.
Officially, Leah Gyarmati is the trainer of Wonder Gal. This winter, it is Mother Nature who seems to be calling all the shots.
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin confirmed Friday that Frosted will make his next start in the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 4.
Last week, we used DRF Formulator to come up with some plays who ran well and, maybe even more importantly, a couple of short-priced horses who we thought might be vulnerable and proved to be, most notably Untapable losing at odds of 1-10. Formulator allows you to see the lifetime past performances of horses who have run in the past five years for any trainer who has horses entered, as well as charts, replays, filters, and more. With access to this database and with one-click access to replays, it can allow you to see some things that aren’t readily available to the betting public. Using Formulator, let’s look at some specific horses entered at a few different tracks Saturday.
Trainer Nick Zito has secured fellow Hall of Famer Gary Stevens to ride Frammento in the April 4 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland.
Ekati’s Phaeton showed that she’s ready for next Saturday’s Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks by working five furlongs in 1:00.73 here Friday with jockey Juan Leyva aboard.
Trainer Brian Lynch said he will be scaling back his operation at Woodbine this season because if he doesn’t, changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program would have forced him to let several long-term employees go.
It’s a natural pairing – jockey Joe Talamo, who is from Marrero, a New Orleans suburb on the west bank of the Mississippi River, and trainer Tom Amoss, a New Orleans native.
The Saturday card at Laurel includes four $100,000 stakes races, two for 3-year-olds and two for older horses. Here is a pick four play for races 4-7.
Seven other stakes – all but one of them graded – will surround the Grade 1 Florida Derby on a blockbuster 14-race program next Saturday, March 28, at Gulfstream Park.
