BreezeFigs Quick-Pix, Saturday, March 17, 2018 by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore

That’s the last time we will mention our top gimmick Pick Ironwood, whose performance last week was hardly encouraging. On the other hand, our other gimmick Pick, Ruler of the Nile, buried the field with a $2.60 payoff, so he at least saved part of the day. He was one of 10 BreezeFigs maidens to score last week, and as a handicapping insight we note that eight of them were either Group 1 or Group 2 horses. The other nine winners came at Aqueduct, Fair Grounds, Gulfstream (three), Oaklawn, Santa Anita, Tampa Bay and Will Rogers. The first 2-year-old sale of the year (OBSMAR) took place this week so the games are on again! Today’s card is peppered with a lot of first-timers which were not impressive at the sales, but we found a couple that might be worth a go, 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 Pix:

Gulfstream Park, 6th Race, Maiden Claiming ($12,500), 5 ½ Furlongs (Dirt)

This bottom rung maiden event attracted one BreezeFigs filly, Miss Jak, who put in a creditable one-over-Par Group 2 effort at OBSAPR last year with a 24.35 foot stride length (SL), three-quarters-of-a foot longer than average for a fillies at a quarter mile that day. But she was scratched before the sale began and it’s obvious that something may have happened to her in that breeze because she’s a year out and way down the class level one might expect. However, she is owned by the people who consigned her to the sale and named after their stable, so maybe there’s a sneaky play going on here. Worth a gimmick play.

Tampa Bay, 9th Race, Maiden Special Weight, 5 ½ Furlongs (Dirt)

The BreezeFigs filly in here, Happiness, has something in common with Miss Jak, our Gulfstream Pick: Neither of them have a 2-year-old sale in their PP’s because Miss Jak was scratched before the sale and Happiness failed to sell (RNA) at 55k. Happiness tossed in a one-over-Par Group 2 effort at EASMAY with a 23.54 foot SL, about a third-of-a-foot longer than average for fillies that day at an eighth. She looks eminently “gimmicky” in here. Good luck!