The local product gets the spotlight at Turf Paradise on Sunday with two divisions of the $35,000 ATBA Fall Sales Stakes. Both six-furlong events are for 2-year-old Arizona-breds who were consigned to the 2013 Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association fall sale. The fillies’ division goes as race 7; the males’ division is race 8. Both drew fields of 11.
DRF handicapper Brad Free provides his insight on how to wager on the Breeders' Cup Sprint.
Can London Tower win the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes off just one start? She may be favored to do so in the 69th running of the 1 1/16-mile test for 2-year-old fillies on Sunday at Woodbine.
Filimbi has settled into a pattern in her first year of racing in the United States – she is often favored in turf miles. A 4-year-old filly, Filimbi was third as the beaten favorite in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes over a mile on turf at Keeneland on Oct. 4, missing by 1 1/2 lengths when racing in traffic late. Avoiding a similar scenario will be vital for Filimbi on Sunday when she makes her California debut in the $200,000 Goldikova Stakes over a mile on turf.
Just The Judge may be dismissed by some horseplayers due to her 13-day turnaround from winning the E.P. Taylor at Woodbine into the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, but the opinion here is that she is still going to run another one of her “A” races.
Heza Dasha Fire, the winner of the Ed Burke Million Futurity in June, will be a strong favorite to win Sunday’s $1,031,100 Golden State Million Futurity at Los Alamitos. A win could put Heza Dasha Fire closer to a seven-figure bonus.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix, Saturday, November 1st, 2014 by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore
The first of two Breeders’ Cup days are upon us Friday, leaving horseplayers as giddy as children eating chocolate this Halloween evening. Here’s how I plan to play the races today at Santa Anita, specifically the Breeders’ Cup events.
The owners and/or trainers of 36 horses scheduled to run in Breeders’ Cup races on Friday and Saturday have pledged a portion of their purse earnings over the two-day event to the New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program, the nonprofit organization announced Thursday.
Morning rain has resulted in the scheduled turf races at Churchill on Friday being moved to the main track. And as a result of the surface switch, the fifth race’s distance has been changed from 1 3/8 miles to 1 1/4 miles.
