BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, February 18, 2017 by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore
There were many animalistic guttural sounds that came out of our throats as five horses finished on the wire in our Pick last week. Unfortunately, we finished second, third and in a dead heat for fourth—which gave us some claim on a gimmick payoff, while our preferred Pick got off slowly and finished even slower up the track. Such is racing. However, the rest of the week was quite superlative for BreezeFigs maidens, with 18 of them winning from coast-to-coast with a ton of gimmicks along the way. The gimmicks came at: Aqueduct (a BreezeFigs superfecta); Gulfstream (six wins, including three on one card and a BreezeFigs trifecta on another day); Laurel (three, two on one card and a BreezeFigs exacta another day); Santa Anita (BreezeFigs superfecta); Tampa Bay (four, including a BreezeFigs superfecta). Solos came at Oaklawn; Penn National; and Mahonig Valley. Saturday's card is flooded with first times, many of them with interesting BreezeFigs profiles, which fit the bill in some places. We’ve found an intriguing one, see below. Good luck!
If you’d like to learn a little more about how we come up with BreezeFigs, take a look at our new website by clicking here: www.biodatatrack.com and click on the tab BreezeFigs at the top of the page. In there you will find a link to a major study of how over 17,000 BreezeFigs horses from the sales 2007 through 2013 have succeeded on the racetrack based on Group and stride length. You can also access that study by clicking this link: www.biodatatrack.com/BreezeFigs-Study.pdf.
Here’s Saturday’s Pick:
Gulfstream Park, 9th Race, Maiden Special Weight, One Mile (Dirt)
Two BreezeFigs colts, both of which breezed at two sales, are in here and they both have a shot. The morning line goes 6-to-1 for Cruz Diez who came out at BARMAR with an even-Par Group 2 profile and a 24.50 foot stride length (SL), a fifth-off-a-foot shorter than average for colts that day at an eighth. He was not sold (RNA), however at 190k and was wheeled back at OBSJUN. There he posted a two-over-Par Group 1 ticket at a quarter mile with a 24.18 foot SL, two-fifths-of-a-foot longer than average for colts that day. But he was scratched (SCR) after he breezed and never went through the ring. Interesting journey so far. Clear N Convincing posted a two-over-Par Group 2 profile at OBSMAR where his 25.58 foot SL was more than a foot longer than average for colts that day at an eighth. But he failed to sell (RNA) at 95k, He came back at EASMAY where he threw in a three-over-Par Group 2 performance with a 25.87 foot SL that was two feet longer than average for colts at one eighth that day—and took 370k out of his new owner’s wallet. Now here’s the weird thing: Chad Brown’s his trainer, and he’s 12-to-1 in the morning line. You figure that out. Watch the board, folks, but keep these two guys close to you and toss them into gimmicks as you see fit. Good luck!