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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Friday 1/16
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 1/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Kevin PlowchaJan 14, 2026
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 1/16 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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He's 10-1 on the morning line in a listed stakes race, so it's fair to say that Reagan's Wit has largely been forgotten since ending his 3-year-old campaign finishing sixth July 4 in the Manila at Saratoga. Reagan's Wit came out of the Manila with a bone chip in his ankle and makes his first start since in Saturday's Colonel E.R. Bradley at Fair Grounds.
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Brad Cox-trained 3-year-old fillies in recent years have made hay in the Fair Grounds dirt-route stakes program. But while Cox has runners in seven Fair Grounds races Saturday, he starts nothing in the Silverbulletday Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, a race he's won twice the last three years.
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Though he has significantly fewer horses than he did a month ago, trainer Rudy Rodriguez was glad to be able to get some of them back on the work tab Wednesday morning at Belmont Park.
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Trainer Bill Mott said he'd prefer not to run Batten Down and Stars and Stripes against one another to open their 2026 campaigns. But with few options available around two turns locally for older horses, such will be the case in Friday's $87,000 ninth race at Gulfstream Park
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When Shadow Surge won Tuesday's fourth race at Parx, it was the 4,900th career winner trained by Jamie Ness. Ness, who led all North American trainers in wins in 2025 with 353, will continue the march to 5,000 on Friday at Aqueduct when he sends out Sassafrassness in a starter allowance that serves as the feature on a pedestrian eight-race card.
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Jockey Emisael Jaramillo has traded a position among the top 10 riders at Gulfstream Park for a similar spot at Santa Anita.
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Bullard returns from an eight-month layoff Friday at Santa Anita, where he faces a pair of Bob Baffert-trained comebackers in a seven-furlong allowance, race 6. Pilot Commander is 4-5 program favorite in his first start since he won a Grade 3 sprint last year at Santa Anita.
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A $525,000 Nyquist colt led what continued to be a strong market for newly turned yearlings as the Keeneland January sale wrapped up on Tuesday night with strong figures.
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Free Like a Girl, who rose from a $5,500 yearling purchase to the all-time leading earner among Louisiana-breds, recently had to be euthanized due to a severe hind leg injury sustained inside a trailer, according to co-owner Carl Deville.