BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, August 1st by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore
Moon King fried himself on the early pace last week, so our Pick went down the tubes except for those who keyed him into the superfecta. Meanwhile, BreezeFigs 2-year-olds elsewhere did fairly well last week with eight of them breaking their maidens. Two came at Del Mar where one of them, on Wednesday, kicked off an $8.20-for-a-buck BreezeFigs exacta; the next day another BreezeFigs exacta came at Parx, this one more generous at $57.20. The other five winners came at Ellis Park, Gulfstream, Mountaineer, Penn and Presque Isle. Among the dwindling number of BreezeFigs maiden 3-year-olds, four came home on top last week including a BreezeFigs trifecta on Saturday at Indiana Grand, which was a $34.20 payoff, while that extacta paid $12. Two other winners came at Gulfstream and another at Saratoga. This week, we are going to give you one Pick from each card, see below. Good luck!
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Here’s Saturday’s Pix:
2-year-olds: Saratoga, 2nd Race, Maiden Special Weight, 6 Furlongs (Dirt)
This does not look like the kind of maiden likely to produce a Grade 1 winner, but there is a chance that a BreezeFigs first-timer, Sawyers Mickey, might be able to pull it off. He turned in a very respectable three-over-Par Group 1 profile at OBSAPR at a furlong showing a 24.54 foot stride length, more than a foot longer than average for colts that day at the distance. The next day, Remarkable Tale, who has already shown some talent in his debut, worked three furlongs at that sale, and his even-Par Group 2 profile featured a 22.75 foot stride length, average for the day and not that bad for the distance. A couple of days later, Czarmo went a furlong at the same sale and had a five-under-Par Group 3 profile with a respectable 23.68 foot stride length that was a half-foot longer than average that day, but he was scratched (SCR) from the sale before they started selling. It’s not our strongest recommendation of the year, but both Sawyers Mickey and Remarkable Tale look like solid gimmick plays. Good luck!
3-year-olds: Laurel Park, 7th Race, Maiden Special Weight, 5 ½ Furlongs (Turf)
Table of Elements hardly set the track on fire last year at EASMAY but she did register a three-over-Par Group 2 profile, but with a very modest 22.51 foot stride length which was more than a half-foot shorter than average for fillies that day at one eighth. Maybe that’s why they entered her for the turf here—it’s a sharp outfit. We shall see, and at the morning line odds, she is worth a look and a modest play. Good luck!