Due to a technical error, the incorrect day's Del Mar analysis was published in Wednesday's print edition of DRF. Below is the correct analysis for Wednesday's Del Mar card.
BEST BET: Green With Eddie (7th race)
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1. Heat Me 2. Flexible Ethics 3. Radiant Journey
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Identifying the favorite for the $1.25 million Travers on Aug. 27 may be as difficult as picking the winner of the Travers, the marquee race of the Saratoga meet.
Yes, Exaggerator’s victory in Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park may have leapfrogged him past Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist for the division lead, but his struggles with the Saratoga main track could leave him vulnerable in the Travers.
Of course, if it rains on Aug. 27, Exaggerator would be the strong favorite and most likely winner.
Due to weekend rain, Parx Racing has canceled the two steeplechase races scheduled for Tuesday.
The two jump races were canceled as races 1 and 3. The card will begin at the normal first post of 12:55 p.m. Eastern with race 2. Race 4 will then be run at 1:22 p.m.
Originally, Parx had 12 races scheduled for Tuesday, so it will have a 10-race card.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Otabek Umarov, the trainer suspended by Kentucky regulators for 10 years, has dropped his efforts to defend a stay of the penalty to focus on his appeal in front of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, his attorney said on Monday.
Originally published in the Del Mar Player’s Guide on July 12.
Racing at Del Mar returns July 15, kicking off an eight-week summer meet that runs through Labor Day, Sept. 5. Last summer’s meet was the first one with races run on a dirt main track, ending an eight-year stretch of the all-weather Polytrack surface.
Delaware Park recalculated the payoffs for its first race on Wednesday after stewards initially posted the wrong order of finish based on an erroneous interpretation of the photo for second and third place, the track said on Wednesday night.
Jrc Callas First, the 2014 world champion Quarter Horse, will defend his title in Friday night’s $30,000 TQHA 550, one of five stakes on the card for Quarter Horses at Retama Park. Jrc Callas First is 7 for 9 at Retama.
The Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement center in Georgetown, Ky., reported that Futural, who finished first in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup in 2001, was euthanized Tuesday due to complications caused by advanced, chronic osteoarthritis. Futural, 20, was pensioned at Old Friends in 2006.
Lady Aurelia was sent through her second official workout since her breathtaking performance at Royal Ascot, breezing a half-mile in company Wednesday over the turf course at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
With trainer Wesley Ward watching, Lady Aurelia was clocked in 48.80 seconds. She worked outside of stablemate Red Lodge, finishing on even terms before galloping out five furlongs in 1:03. The dogs were well out onto the firm course, and Julio Garcia was aboard Lady Aurelia, who wore blinkers and spotted her workmate about three lengths.
