Many pieces to puzzling Withers Stakes
Handicappers will have to grapple with questions regarding class, distance and fitness when deciphering whom to wager on in Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
David GreningJan 31, 2019
Handicappers will have to grapple with questions regarding class, distance and fitness when deciphering whom to wager on in Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
Trainer Rudy Rodriguez hopes all the talk about Brady this weekend won't be limited to the Super Bowl. On Saturday, Rodriguez will send out Not That Brady against six rivals in the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
Gray Attempt won the $150,000 Smarty Jones wire to wire last week at Oaklawn Park, but it might be a mistake to brand the 3-year-old as one-dimensional.
Trainer Robert “Butch” Reid told jockey Jose Ortiz he'd buy him lunch if he could hold the freakishly fast Maximus Mischief to a half-mile in 49 seconds in his all-important final breeze before Saturday's Grade 2 Holy Bull.
For the second time in a week, a major contender has been withdrawn from consideration for Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.
The Grade 3 Robert Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita will play a pivotal role in the short-term future of Gum Tree Lane, the promising winner of a maiden race at Los Alamitos in December
It was Monday morning and the owners of Somelikeithotbrown still had yet to decide where the colt would make his 3-year-old debut.
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Gary Barber has purchased Our Braintrust, runner-up in the $150,000 Jerome at Aqueduct on New Year's Day, from Maryland horseman Cal Lynch and the 3-year-old is now based in Ocala, Fla., with trainer Mark Casse.
WAR OF WILL has a grass pedigree (he’s out of a Sadler’s Wells mare), so it’s understandable that he began his career on that surface, but he has improved noticeably since moving to the dirt.