BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, June 16, 2018, by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore
Both of our Pix keys came through last week with There and Back winning his race and Parsimony getting up to complete the exacta in his race. It was a very good week for the 3-year-old BreezeFigs maidens, with eight of them winning at: Belmont (two), Churchill, Gulfstream (BreezeFigs exacta), Indiana, Prairie Meadows and Santa Anita (two). The 2-year-olds are still waiting for longer distances in some cases, but two of them won, at Laurel and Santa Anita. Saturday's 3-year-old card doesn’t have a single first-time starter, so we’ll look at two races for the babies, see below. Good luck!
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Here are Saturday’s Pix:
2-Year-Olds
Gulfstream Park, 8th Race, Maiden Special Weight, 5 Furlongs (Dirt)
The two BreezeFigs entrants here did quite well at OBSMAR but in this wide open event with a short tun to the first turn, it’s often luck which gets you a winner. Here it could be either Elusive Ro or Florida Two Step, who breezed on separate days but came up with good tickets. Elusive Ro had a 10-over-Par Group 1 profile with a 26.38 foot stride length, a foot-and-three-quarters longer than average for colts that day a furlong. He’s at 3-to-1. Florida Two Step posted a five-over-Par Group 1 profile with a 24.93 foot SL, almost three-quarters of a foot longer than average that day. He’s a bit pricier at 12-to-1, but both are gimmick worthy and you might want to watch the board to key one or both.
Woodbine, 5th Race, Maiden Special Weight, 4 ½ Furlongs (Synthetic)
At 3-to-1, Slydini is a bit of a mystery player here. He is one of the first starters to come out of OBSAPR where he posted a two-over-Par Group 2 profile with a 25.32 foot SL which was three-quarters of a foot longer than colts that day at a quarter mile. But he was scratched (SCR) from the sale after he breezed, so we have to assume he may have had a bit of an issue. He’s got the connections, and needs to be sharp early—but is more likely to close late. That would make him a key in our book against this crowd. Good luck!