Prior to the 2015 meet at Oaklawn Park, we used DRF Formulator to highlight some key trainers and analyze how they’ve fared there over the last five years. Oaklawn’s meet ended April 11, so let’s review how each angle performed. It’s not simply an exercise in self-evaluation but also in looking forward to see which angles could remain positive or negative ones at Oaklawn next year.
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DRF Past Performances
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Friday’s races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
DRF Bets GamePlan
Closer looks for Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, Santa Anita, and Woodbine, and spot plays and live longshots for Aqueduct, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, Pimlico, and Santa Anita. Picks are chronologically listed, so you can build and plan your wagering day.
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Colour Party (#6, ML 5-1) makes her North American debut in Thursday’s third race at Aqueduct, the 1 1/16-mile Memories of Silver Stakes on turf. Trainer Christophe Clement is winning at a 38 percent clip when saddling a horse making its first start in North America, for a return on investment of $2.80.
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Ft Davis (#7, ML 8-1) will return to action in Thursday’s sixth race at Keeneland, a 1 1/8-mile turf allowance. It will be his first start since a fifth-place finish by 5 1/4 lengths in an about 1 1/8-mile turf allowance Feb. 7 at Fair Grounds. The first-, third-, and eighth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
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The Saturday before the Kentucky Derby is understandably light in terms of stakes action, with four Grade 3 events topping the schedule – the $200,000 Excelsior at Aqueduct, the $100,000 Last Tycoon at Santa Anita, the $100,000 San Francisco Mile at Golden Gate Fields, and the $100,000 Miami Mile at Gulfstream. The Miami Mile will have a say in Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 mandatory payout Saturday, which could include a giant, seven-figure carryover if it lasts until Saturday.
Last Tycoon Stakes
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DRF Bets GamePlan
Closer looks for Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park, and Keeneland, and spot plays and live longshots for Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Lone Star Park, and Pimlico. Picks are chronologically listed, so you can build and plan your wagering day.
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Positive ROI Report
There was a time when it seemed almost sacrilegious to forgo working at Churchill Downs prior to running in the Kentucky Derby.
But just as the trend with Derby prospects in recent years has been toward fewer starts spaced farther apart, so too has there been an adjustment regarding where trainers choose to work their horses prior to the Derby.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After several slow days on the Kentucky Derby workout front, things began to pick up Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs, where both War Story and Mr. Z turned in five-furlong works and American Pharoah really got to stretch his legs for the first time since arriving here last week.
The weather was overcast, with a brief shower thrown in shortly before the renovation break, while the temperature hovered in the low to mid-50s throughout the morning.[bc_playlist_id:289889:]
Went the Day Well (#4, ML 12-1) takes on a field of seven in Wednesday’s eighth race at Aqueduct, a 1 1/8-mile optional claimer. Since Jan. 1, 2014, trainer Jimmy Jerkens is winning at a 28 percent clip in dirt races, for a return on investment of $3.38.
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Chapter and Verse (#2, ML 5-2) will return to action in Wednesday’s sixth race at Keeneland, an about seven-furlong allowance. It will be his first start since a third-place finish by 3 3/4 lengths in a six-furlong optional claimer March 14 at Fair Grounds. The fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
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