WEST VIRGINIA DERBY DAY: Video Analysis, news, PPs and LIVE streaming video of the entire card.
Many horseplayers believe that the longer a race, the better the chance of a closer's success, and they tend to bet that way. They look for the late-runner, reasoning the adding distance will move them up.
The problem is that longer races typically attract less speed, and the pace can, in turn, unfold slower, giving the advantage back to the front-runner.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy.
In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information. Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy.
In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information. Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
Welcome to Spa Babies! I'll break down the statistics for every juvenile contest at the meet and hope for a tidy profit.
In past years, I would list the stats for each horse before writing up my analysis, selections and wagering strategy. In order to streamline the content, this year's Spa Babies will showcase written analyses of each juvenile race. Each analysis will include relevant statistical information.
Following the analysis, top three selections and wagering strategy will be provided.
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Thursday's results:
Kenneth Street might be leaving the Colorado-bred ranks behind for the first time in the $20,000 Silver Cup Futurity at Arapahoe Park, but no 2-year-old will bring better credentials into the 5 1/2-furlong race.
Of the 12 set to start, Kenneth Street is the lone winner in the field. He also is the only horse who has placed in a stakes race, having run third in the $42,000 Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Futurity in his most recent start July 16.
The first 2-year-old Ohio-bred stakes race in northern Ohio this season, the $50,000, six-furlong Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes, has drawn a field of 13, including a five-horse coupled entry from the barn of trainer Tim Hamm comprising horses solely or partially owned by Blazing Meadows Farm LLC. The race has eight betting interests.
Not an Altar Boy will be looking to upset the race. Trained by Ivan Vazquez, Not an Altar Boy won an Ohio-bred maiden special weight in his last outing July 24 and was the runner-up in the $50,000 Hoover Stakes on July 10, both at River Downs.
Indian Ink won the Vivacious prep and will try to replicate that effort in the $50,000 Vivacious on Saturday at River Downs.
Trained by Mike Rone, Indian Ink won the 7 1/2-furlong prep July 16 by 3 3/4 lengths. It was the second stakes win this season for the 6-year-old mare, who previously won the T.F. Classen at Thistledown on April 30, her first out this season. Indian Ink won the Vivacious in 2010 and has won 3 of 6 on the turf, all at River Downs. Perry Ouzts retains the mount.\
DEL MAR, Calif. - Six days after he finished fourth in a starter allowance, Ruler of Dubai made his stakes debut in Wednesday’s $100,000 Graduation Stakes and pulled an upset in the sprint for statebred 2-year-olds.
Trainer George Papaprodromou said that Ruler of Dubai lost any chance of a good performance in the starter allowance on July 27 after sweating significantly before the race. There was no such incident in the Graduation, which Ruler of Dubai ($31.80) won by a head over the 10-1 first-time starter Three Vases.
The floor was open. Stay Thirsty responded with a sensational win in the Jim Dandy, while Coil and Shackleford both stepped up big time with their one-two finish in the Haskell Invitational.
That was last weekend. And this is this weekend, when the 3-year-old division could welcome another prime-timer when the Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby is run Saturday at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort in Chester, W.Va.
