Yonkers: Sunday 3/15 Analysis
Matt Rose's analysis of the Sunday Afternoon 3/15 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Matt RoseMar 13, 2015
Matt Rose's analysis of the Sunday Afternoon 3/15 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Shared Belief is the top-rated horse in the world after his romp in the Santa Anita Handicap, according to the first 2015 World’s Best Racehorse rankings released Thursday by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.
Download a list of horses exiting races where two or more of the competitors have come back to win their next starts. Friday's report features races from Aqueduct, Charles Town, Delta Downs, Fair Grounds, Fonner Park, Golden Gate, Gulfstream Park, Hawthorne, Laurel Park, Los Alamitos, Oaklawn Park, Penn National, Santa Anita, Sunland Park, Tampa Bay Downs, and Turfway Park.
Champion Take Charge Brandi on Thursday had a pin placed in her right knee to accelerate the healing process from a non-displaced bone chip, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Friday.
Quite frankly, every harness track in the country should work together to schedule post times and racing dates. Why can’t the top 15 tracks race at different times and different dates? That would create an environment where bettors could watch and wager on the maximum amount of races.
Big Brown is one of several high-class stallions coming to New York at a time when New York-breds are a hot commodity.
Throughout the myriad changes in the landscape of New York’s breeding program in recent years, one name has consistently remained on top. Empire State mainstay Freud has finished first or second by earnings among New York stallions with state-sired runners in each of the past seven years, and he has led by turf earnings every year in the same time period.
When Darley moved its homebred Desert Party to Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., after his second season at stud in Kentucky, the goal was almost certainly to position him as one of the Empire State’s most attractive offerings. So far, so good. The 9-year-old son of Street Cry led all current New York sires by first-crop earnings.
Fueled by the exploits of unbeaten Dortmund and three other juvenile stakes winners in 2014, Big Brown is the leading returning or incoming juvenile sire in New York.
As we have discussed in this space on several occasions, the Storm Cat male line has not flourished in exactly the manner breeders anticipated when his yearlings were all the rage during the first five years of the 21st century. Among Storm Cat’s sons, only Giant’s Causeway developed into a genuinely top sire, and Giant’s Causeway’s champion son Shamardal has already passed on the male line to his highweighted son Lope de Vega, leading 2014 freshman sire in Europe. One other branch of the Storm Cat male line has successfully extended to the third generation, that descending through Hennessy.