BreezeFigs Quick-Pix Saturday, September 16, 2017, by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore
Although she only held on by half-length, Moon Dash, our Pick last week, broke her maiden professionally and was expected to, returning a paltry $3.60. But, hey, she won. Fourteen other 2-year-old BreezeFigs maidens also won during the week, and two others, both first-time starters, won stakes races (at Finger lakes and Woodbine, at generous prices), which brought the total to 17 maiden winners. Besides Moon Dash, the other maiden winners came at Belmont (BreezeFigs exacta), Belterra, Delaware (two others, including a BreezeFigs exacta), Kentucky Downs, Los Alamitos (three), Louisiana Downs, Monmouth, Remington (two, including a BreezeFigs exacta), Retama, and Zia Park. Saturday's card is loaded with first-timers as Churchill Downs opens and other tracks spread the money around. However, we’ve found one that may not be on anyone’s radar, see below. Good luck!
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Here’s Saturday’s Pick:
2-year-olds:
Belmont Park, 5th Race, Maiden Special Weight, One Mile (Turf)
At first you might raise your eyebrow over this choice. However, there’s more to Soldiers Pride than the fact that she was scratched after posting a decent one-under-Par Group 2 profile at OBSAPR. Because she was scratched, you won’t see that she was in a sale in the PP’s but she’s there on our card. Her BreezeFig may have been one-under-Par, but her internals moved her up from what would have been a Group 3 profile, and one of those was a 24.29 foot stride length, which was three-fifths of a foot longer than average for fillies that day at a furlong, which she traveled at 10.1 seconds. She is in very clever hands and a luscious morning line figure, on the far outside so she can settle, and may be a solid gimmick play at the very least. Good luck!