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Solitude Dude, a runaway debut winner at Gulfstream Park, looms a short-priced favorite in a field of seven 2-year-olds entered to run six furlongs in Saturday's $125,000 Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Padiddle has won just once in 15 lifetime starts, although two of his 14 losses were third-place finishes behind the multiple Grade 1 winner Far Bridge earlier this season in the Grade 3 Pan American and Grade 2 Man o' War stakes. Those three-turn performances could be enough to make the long-winded Padiddle a major player when stretching out to two miles Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the $100,000 H. Allen Jerkens Handicap.
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The two-time stakes winner Hey Nay Nay is out of serious training after finishing third as the 1-2 favorite in the Grade 3 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes for 2-year-old turf milers at Del Mar last Sunday.
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Om N Joy, a four-time stakes winner since April, is in the midst of a farm rest in central California, and will resume training in mid-December for a 2026 campaign intended to start in the Grade 1 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on March 7.
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Though he had to make a bit of a lineup adjustment, trainer Todd Pletcher will have two chances to win a record-extending 10th edition of the Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle Stakes on Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Remsen, Boone County, Valedictory
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Saturday 12/6 card at The Meadowlands.
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John Rallis' analysis of the Saturday 12/6 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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There's been one constant with El Grande O as summer has turned to late fall in New York – he's breaking from the rail post. It was the case at Saratoga, and it was the case at the Belmont at Big A meet. And it again will be the case Saturday as El Grande O has drawn the fence for the Grade 3, $250,000 Elite Power at Aqueduct.
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Trainer Rick Dutrow believes he has a very nice horse in his barn in the 2-year-old Igniter. He's just not certain how far the son of Volatile wants to run. Dutrow should get a better idea on Saturday at Aqueduct when Igniter stretches out to 1 1/8 miles around two turns in the Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen Stakes, a race that could fuel or extinguish dreams of the Kentucky Derby six months hence.
