RACE 4: VIOLENT VIXEN (#6)
Aqueduct | Race 8 | Post Time 4:04 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up
And a Happy New Year to you, too. Today’s card is for those horses who breezed at the 2021 sales, and are now officially 3-year-olds. The 2020 sales cards will no longer be published because those horses are now 4-year-olds and very few of them are left to break their maidens. During the week five 2021 BreezeFigs 2-year-old maidens won at Aqueduct, Fair Grounds, Tampa Bay (two), and Santa Anita and now go on as 3-year-olds to try to prove their worth.
Happy birthday, horses! Which is to say, “Happy New Year!” Here we go with the foal crop of 2019 beginning their march toward the Triple Crown, so it seems fitting to use three one-mile dirt races for freshly turned 3-year-olds in the first Weekend Gameplan of 2022.
Smarty Jones Stakes
The Oaklawn Park race has more entrants than the New York and California races combined, so we’ll begin here.
Aqueduct | Race 4 | Post Time 2:11 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up
Each week in this space, the top Beyer performances by maiden winners will be featured and analyzed. Click here for a complete archive.
Shaaz
Dec. 26, 4th race Santa Anita, MdSpWt68k
Beyer: 105
6 1/2f 1:16.11 – 1st by half-length
b. c. 3, Uncle Mo – Miss Ocean City, by Mineshaft
NOTRE DAME
Trainer: Doug O’Neill
Last race: Dec. 27, race 2
Finish: 1st by 2 3/4
Beyer: 103
Older gelding now four-for-four at Santa Anita after highly rated N1X/optional claiming sprint. Set pace, motored along, gone. Into Mischief gelding fits in N2X or minor stake.
SHAAZ
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Last race: Dec. 26, race 4
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