BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, January 9th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore
The new year started off with a weird Pix result—we didn’t really expect R Girls a Charmer to dash right out again and crush her field, but this filly, whom we liked in a gimmick way, looks like a major player for the future. The others that we figured either had a chance to upset or get into a gimmick hardly picked up their hooves. It was a very quiet week all around, with seven BreezeFigs maidens winning, including King Kranz, who finally broke his maiden on the holiday in the Lost in the Fog Stakes at Aqueduct, kicking off a modest $9 exacta and $18 trifecta with other BreezeFigs graduates Jan’s Reserve and Sallisaw. The next day BreezeFigs graduates Flexibility and Vorticity racked up a $14 BreezeFigs exacta in the Grade 3 Jerome at the same track, while Awesome Speed and Forever Darling won stakes at Gulfstream and Santa Anita, respectively. Today’s card has a number of interesting opportunities, but one that may not pop up on many must-plays caught our eye, see below. Good luck!
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Here’s Saturday’s Pick: Fair Grounds, 2nd Race, Maiden Claiming ($30,000), 5 ½ Furlongs (Turf)
We don’t usually venture into this level, especially when the horse we like was sold at a major sale for only $3,000, but if Uptown Tempo has gotten over the issues which obviously negatively impacted his value at OBSMAR, he could surprise. He ran up a one-over-Par Group 2 performance there where his 24.37 foot stride length was about a quarter foot longer than average for colts that day at one eighth. They are putting him on the turf because of his breeding, no doubt, and the fact that the surface may be more comfortable for whatever ailed him, and he’s 9-to-2 in the line so pay attention and cross your fingers. Good luck!