ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Richard Baltas is not too concerned about a sluggish start to the Santa Anita winter meet – two wins from 37 starters, with four seconds and eight thirds.
“I’ve been in a slump,” Baltas acknowledged. “That being said, my good horses haven’t started running yet, and I know what I have in the barn.”
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ARCADIA, Calif. – Off the board in separate stakes races, a pair of class droppers hope for better luck in the late double on Friday the 13th at Santa Anita.
Artisma in race 7 and John Metcalfe in race 8, despite eighth-place finishes last out, are favored in the final two races Friday. Artisma runs six furlongs in a first-level allowance for fillies and mares, while John Metcalfe runs a mile on turf in a maiden race for Cal-bred 3-year-olds.
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OZONE PARK, N.Y.– When Full Pour won a New York-bred maiden race at Aqueduct on Jan. 18, it was her first start in eight months. The layoff had nothing to do with the physical condition of the horse.
Trainer Mark Hennig believes Full Pour should improve from that race when he stretches her out to 1 1/8 miles in a New York-bred first-level allowance which serves as the feature on Thursday’s nine-race Aqueduct card.
“I’ve been looking forward to that for a long time,” Hennig said about the distance of Thursday’s race. “I think she’ll appreciate more ground.”
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Bronze Bullet, disqualified out of an apparent dead heat for first in the Pulpit Stakes in his juvenile finale, will return to allowance company when launching his 3-year-old campaign against eight rivals, including stablemate Cabourg, in Thursday’s $86,000 allowance and optional-claiming feature at Gulfstream Park.
ARCADIA, Calif. – She paid a mere $7.80 to win, but Meaning’s victory in Sunday’s $98,000 Las Virgenes Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita was a minor upset.
Starting for the first time since a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies on Oct. 31 at Del Mar, Meaning benefited from a superb trip in the Las Virgenes at a mile.
ARCADIA, Calif. – For the second consecutive year, El Potente won the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita by a convincing margin.
Last year, El Potente won the Thunder Road by three lengths in what was intended to be a prep race for the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in March. El Potente was withdrawn from the Kilroe and did not race again until November.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Igniter beat a well-regarded runner from the Chad Brown barn to win his first race. He’ll likely have to do the same on Wednesday if he is to win his second.
Igniter, returning to a one-turn race, will face Hedge Ratio and five other 3-year-olds in a first-level allowance/optional $100,000 claiming race that goes as race 3 on Wednesday’s nine-race card.
Post position may have played a role in Peripoli’s fourth-place finish in a starter allowance/optional $25,000 claimer on Jan. 23 at Tampa Bay Downs. Drawn in post 2 in what was just his second start, Peripoli wound up dueling with Hard Talk for the lead and ultimately ended up fourth behind the late-running Charlie Mac Mac.
Wednesday, at Tampa, Peripoli will break from the outside post in a seven-horse field for trainer Timothy Hamm when he again meets Charlie Mac Mac and Hard Talk in the same condition going 6 1/2 furlongs.
