Wed, 08/09/2017 - 13:32

TimeformUS Speed Figure Report for week ending Aug. 6, 2017

Each week, TimeformUS Chief Figure Maker Craig Milkowski takes a look back at the weekend’s graded stakes and releases the TimeformUS Speed Figures for these races.

Saratoga

Grade 1 Whitney

1/2    119

3/4    132

Fin    134

Top 3: Gun Runner 133, Keen Ice 127, Breaking Lucky 126

Note: Half-mile in blue (slow pace) despite race allegedly having a rabbit entered; Gun Runner has seven consecutive race running a least a 125 TimeformUS Speed Figure

Wed, 08/09/2017 - 07:27

TimeformUS Saratoga Horses in Focus for Aug. 9, 2017

Race 7

Verdant Pastures (#6)

The Pace Projector is predicting that she will be on the lead in a situation favoring the front-runner.

Ran very well when breaking her maiden, earning a competitive 98 TimeformUS Speed Figure.

DRF Formulator Fact: Over the past five years, Charlton Baker is 9 for 23 (39 percent, $2.86 ROI) with horses coming off layoffs of 90 to 180 days in dirt races on the NYRA circuit.

9-2 on ML

Mon, 08/07/2017 - 13:06

Gierkink: Woodbine horses to watch for week of Aug. 7

FLAMENCO DANCER
Trainer: Frank Huarte
Last race: Aug. 2, 4th
Finish: 3rd by head
Beyer: 59
She lacked room on the turn in the 3 path before closing widest to just miss in a $20,000 claimer. The erratic 4-year-old should clear the non-winners-of-three condition in her next few starts.

Mon, 08/07/2017 - 10:55

Trip Notes for August 5-6: Whitney, Test, West Virginia Derby

Aug. 5

Saratoga
Waya (race 3)

Mon, 08/07/2017 - 10:20

Free: Del Mar horses to watch for week of Aug. 7

EXTRORDINARY JERRY
Trainer: Doug O’Neill
Last race: Aug. 2, 3rd
Finish: 4th by 4 3/4
Beyer: 37
A debuting 2-year-old sprinting on turf, this colt lagged early and finished willingly in a respectable schooling run. Anticipate major improvement second time out.

UNION REBEL
Trainer: Richard Baltas
Last race: Aug. 2, 4th
Finish: 3rd by 1
Beyer: 78

Sun, 08/06/2017 - 21:43

Del Mar jackpot reaches $85,213

DEL MAR, Calif. -- The single-ticket jackpot in the pick six will be at $85,213.32 when racing resumes on Wednesday at Del Mar following a formful Sunday card in which 18 tickets had the pick six for $6,440.20 a copy.
Sun, 08/06/2017 - 16:21

TimeformUS Saratoga Horses in Focus for Monday, Aug. 7, 2017

Race 7:
Improv (#3)

Was setting fast paces (indicated by red color-coding in the PPs) in each of her last two starts.
The Pace Projector is predicting she will be on the lead in a situation favoring the front-runner.
Seems to be in better form now as a 5-year-old.
9-2 on ML
---

Sun, 08/06/2017 - 12:27

Hersh: How I'll play Saratoga for Sunday, Aug. 6

Can’t get any handle on Saratoga's race 1, a $12.5K claimer packed with droppers, so the pick five is out. And there are races in the later pick fours (6-9 and 8-11) that stop me. But the early pick four on races 2 through 5 looks potentially manageable, and I’ll take a swing at that, though I don’t love any single horse in the sequence.

Here’s the ticket I’ll play (caveman style today). It’s $60 per 50-cent increment:

Race 2 – 1,2,4,5,6

Race 3 – 3,6

Race 4 – 5,7,10

Race 5 – 2,4,7,8