Here's my race-by-race rundown of Saturday's Guaranteed $250K Pick 4 at Aqueduct. I'm building my wager with TicketMaker, found exclusively on DRF.com.
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Here's my race-by-race rundown of Saturday's Pick 4 at Fair Grounds. I'm building my wager with TicketMaker, found exclusively on DRF.com.
Solar Charge won his fourth consecutive race Thursday night, when he closed into a hot pace to take the $50,000 Winter Dash at Remington Park in Oklahoma City. He finished 2 1/4 lengths clear of runner-up Flat Back, while it was another three lengths back to third-place finisher Banner Cat.
The Winter Dash, an overnight stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs, was the first of four stakes being run over Remington’s closing week. The meet ends Saturday night with a three-stakes program led by the $300,000 Springboard Mile.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Chad Brown reported that he not only has the undefeated Awesome Feather in training at Payson Park for Frank Stronach but also has Stronach’s recently purchased pair of Her Smile and Diva Ash.
Her Smile, who finished a wide-running third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, was purchased by Stronach for $1 million at the Fasig Tipton November Sale. Diva Ash has started just four times, winning the Edgewood Stakes earlier this year with Dale Romans. She brought $230,000 at the Keeneland November Sale.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla - Trainer Marty Wolfson has taken stalls at Gulfstream Park for the first time this winter. Among the seven horses he has bedded down locally is Ann of the Dance, a 2-year-old daughter of English Channel, who finished next to last in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Ann of the Dance was purchased privately by Wolfson’s principal client, the Farnsworth Stables LLC., during the fall. Ann of the Dance worked an easy half-mile in 50.20 seconds here early Thursday morning.
Snakebite Kid dominated the Louisiana Champions Day Turf in 2010, but was retired after sustaining an injury a couple weeks ago. Flashy Wise Cat won the Champions Day Sprint in 2009 and 2010, but after posting a couple scattered workouts in recent months, Flashy Wise Cat has not had a breeze in weeks, and did not make the 2011 Sprint. That leaves two divisions open for the taking on Saturday’s card at Fair Grounds.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Ullapool, a 2-year-old filly owned by John Fort's Peachtree Stable, turned in the work of the morning here Thursday, going six furlongs in 1:14.24 for trainer Wesley Ward, with the last five-eighths in 59 seconds and change. Ullapool has captured 1 of her 3 starts, with the win coming in a maiden dash early this summer at Belmont Park.
You know how sometimes a racetrack will bring a famous horse back to parade in front of the stands before a stakes race he won several times, or perhaps once, memorably? Well, the appropriate individual for that task on Louisiana Champions Day at Fair Grounds has other plans Saturday. Five years after he first won on Champions Day, Star Guitar still is running in the actual races. Not just running, but winning, and not just winning, but winning big, and he will be favored to push his Champions Day unbeaten streak to five Saturday in the $150,000 Classic.
STICKNEY, Ill. – One former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, made news this week when he was sentenced to a prison term of 14 years. Another, Jim Edgar, has kept a mercifully lower profile, but this is the time of year when Edgar’s long association with Illinois Thoroughbred racing gets acknowledged in the $100,000 Jim Edgar Futurity at Hawthorne.
And trainer Chris Block is doing plenty of honoring. Block trains three of the nine entrants in the Edgar, and Yankee Dealer looks like the one to beat in the 1 1/16-mile race.[bc_video_id:240078:]