Closer Looks: Saratoga August 12, 2013
Saratoga closer looks for Monday, August 12.
DRF StaffAug 11, 2013
Saratoga closer looks for Monday, August 12.
All-sources handle was basically flat, while ontrack business was down slightly, through the first half of the 2013 Saratoga meet when compared with the first half of the 2012 meet, according to figures released Sunday by the New York Racing Association.
Relishing the off going, Brethren ($20.80) stalked the early pace before splashing home 3 1/4 lengths the best in Saturday night’s $125,000 Evangeline Mile Handicap.
Saratoga picks by Mike Beer, Dave Litfin, and Kenny Peck for Monday, August 12.
Saratoga analysis by Dave Litfin for Monday, August 12.
Up With the Birds, coming off a second-place finish in the July 7 Queen’s Plate, breezed five furlongs in company on the turf training track here Sunday in preparation for the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes.
Handicapper Dan Illman's analysis and selections for 2-year-old races at the 2013 Saratoga meet.
Smack Smack kept his undefeated record intact by rallying for a 1 3/4-length win over a game Ethical in Saturday night's $60,000 Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile.
Down Town Allen stalked the pace from the outside for six furlongs before rallying in the stretch to win the $51,250 Sadie Hawkins Stakes by one length at Charles Town on Saturday evening.
Freedom Child, runaway winner of the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont Park in May, emerged from the Jim Dandy with a high suspensory ligament tear in a hind leg and has been retired to Country Life Farm in Maryland.