Yonkers: Saturday 1/17 Analysis
Matt Rose's analysis of the Saturday 1/17 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Matt RoseJan 15, 2015
Matt Rose's analysis of the Saturday 1/17 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Saturday 1/17 card at Woodbine Harness.
Here's a look at the four stakes at Sam Houston, which begin on race 6, plus the nightcap, a competitive $5,000 claimer that ends the pick five sequence.
Liberty Lover will seek to win his fifth straight race Saturday, when he takes on 10 others in the $85,000 Pepsi Cola at Sunland Park.
Trainer Bret Calhoun will send out a third of the field in Saturday night’s $50,000 Groovy Stakes, one of four Texas-bred stakes on the card at Sam Houston Race Park.
The 9-year-old gelding Reynaldothewizard won for the first time in nearly two years in Thursday’s $150,000 Dubawi Stakes over six furlongs at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, a performance that could lead to a start in the $2 million Golden Shaheen for sprinters on March 28.
The great rivalries give Thoroughbred racing a heightened sense of its own reality. There was Kelso and Gun Bow, Dr. Fager and Damascus, Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, and if the game is lucky, there will be a brand new, three-cornered feud among Shared Belief, Bayern, and California Chrome played out over the season ahead.
Aireofdistinction looks to breathe some life into the New York filly and mare sprint division when she makes her local debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Interborough Stakes at six furlongs over Aqueduct’s inner track.
Location is among the most important variables in real estate, and quite often it can prove as important an element in horse racing. Case in point: Saturday’s $60,000 Forego Stakes, where Ghost Is Clear is clear-cut favorite in great part because the race is being run at Turfway Park
The North American graded stakes committee says the $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes is an ungraded race. The past performances for Saturday’s 3-year-old filly stakes at Fair Grounds say otherwise.