After a noticeable outside flow on the main track the past three days, combined with a turf course that’s been in use for a grand total of three races so far this month and not at all since Wednesday, you’d have to be crazy to start off Saturday’s card with a 50-cent pick five play before seeing how things are playing.
In this piece, I’m supposed tell you what my strategy is for tackling Saturday’s card at Aqueduct, but aside from offering a couple of general ideas, this is a rare occasion where I’m simply unable to fulfill my mission. Why? Because of the way Aqueduct’s main track played the first three days of this racing week.
C.R. Trout is in the midst of an incredible run at Remington Park. The breeder-owner-trainer had a stakes triple at the Oklahoma City track Oct. 17 and a week later picked up another stakes at Remington. Trout’s streak continued Friday night, when Shotgun Kowboy rallied through the stretch to catch the 4-5 favorite Bayerd and win the $106,000 Clever Trevor.
A 10-race card highlighted by the Grade 3 River City Handicap – one of the better stakes races across the country – comprises the day’s racing Saturday at Churchill Downs.
Book 2 of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale closed on Friday with steady results that lacked major fireworks, but helped improve the overall average and median.
Mike Smith, the leading stakes-winning jockey during the summer, celebrated opening day of the new Del Mar fall meeting in style on Friday, winning the $84,350 Kathryn Crosby Stakes with Queen of The Sand.
While the step up into stakes company didn’t work out so well for Grand Yodeler, it’s safe to say she won’t be facing any world beaters in Saturday’s second at Del Mar.
It is quite a remarkable accomplishment that the Relaunch mare Baby Zip appears four times in the second generation of Breeders’ Cup-winning and -placing pedigrees.
The Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland and Haras de Bonneval in France have released their advertised fees for the 2015 breeding season.
A traditional daily double to start the day, and then four horses scattered around later on the card who may prove valuable for your various single-race and multiple-race wagers.
