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August 18, 2019
Saratoga (New York):
Gulfstream (Florida):
Deauville (France):
Saratoga (New York):
- Handle: Roughly $15,000,000 bet. Mandatory payout for the Empire Six was one of the attractions of the race day.
- Card: The card was decimated by lack of turf racing (yielding in the 4th, the exception) and abbreviated fields due to off-track conditions.
- Junior Alvarado and Jose Ortiz won twice. No trainer won more than once.
- Race 10: Larry Collmus said midway in his race call "Here comes the rain" just prior to Dylan Davis bringing home the winner.
- Race 9: Blue Prize (Jose Ortiz/Ignacio Correas, IV) won the $100,000 feature as anticipated but got far more than many expected as Vexatious (Joel Rosario/Jack Sisterson) nearly pulled off an upset as the two separated themselves from the pack and both performed admirably. Despite a full field of seven, no show wagering was offered perhaps due to Blue Prize's near-perfect record in-the-money now 21 8-8-3 (19/21). The Argentinian-bred has earned over $1,200,000.
- Race 7: Gorgeous Charli (Junior Alvarado/Chris Englehart) won in his second start in 18 months. One of my favorite plays is second-time starts off long layoffs. The winner was sent off at 5-to-1.
- Race 6: Mrs. Danvers (Joel Rosario/Shug McGaughey) won as the prohibitive favorite and impressed in doing so. The was the second race for the 2-year-old filly and possibly better things await. As an aside, an awesome photo by the DRF's Barbara Livingston with Irad Ortiz, Jr. on board during the post parade:
- Race 5: The Empire Six pool was spilled into the $2,500,000 range after an abundance of money was added. Following the finale, each winner received over $12,000 for every successful $.50 bet.
- Race 8: Three across-the-wire and then a long inquiry/objection which reversed the 2nd and 3rd place finishers.
- Closing day: Laurel is dark until September 6. From Aug. 23 - Sept. 2, Timonium holds its annual meet.
- Julio Correa won four times and claimed the rider's title at the meet with 35 wins. Correa, who rides with a 5-pound weight advantage, will almost certainly be one of the three finalists for Eclipse Award Apprentice of the Year. The most recent bug to win a rider's title at Laurel was Yomar Ortiz in 2013. Trevor McCarthy was second with 30 wins. Correa was named North America Jockey of the Week.
“There's a lot of great jockeys here, maybe the best jockeys in the Mid-Atlantic,” Correa said. “It's really tough for me. I'm a bug boy. To beat Trevor, he's a good guy and a great rider and he works hard in the morning. I'm very proud. The guys in the room support me and teach me. If I make a mistake, they give me a hand and I really appreciate it.” (source: Paulick Report)
Gulfstream (Florida):
- Luca Panici, who had a good day on Saturday bringing two large prices into exotics ($15.80 for third with one and $22.20/$15.20 for place/show, respectively, with another), won three times today. It has been quite some time since Panici won three on a card.
- Race 12: Tennessee Cotton (Luca Panici/Kendall Condie) won the finale. I am not familiar with the trainer but he won for the second time in his career. If the #9 had won, the only horse singled, one handicapper would have walked away with over $800,000. But not to be.
- Race 9: Bienville Street (Cristian Torres/Cam Gambolati) won. The jockey, one of the leading apprentice riders in North America, ended a 34-race skid. The trainer will always be associated with Spend A Buck who won the 1985 Kentucky Derby.'
- Race 7: Over $200,000 was added to the Rainbow Six pool to bring the jackpot over $915,000.
- Race 4: Harryhee (Luca Panici/Brett McLellan) is a dream horse for the average guy. The 7-year-old ridgling is 52 12-13-9 with unremarkable pedigree. The trainer has just seven lifetime wins. This is a good under-the-radar story for those who don't have the assembly line of runners.
- Rainbow Six carryover: It will be in excess of $760,000. It will get close to $1,000,000 later this week.
- Steve Asmussen won three times with seven starters including teaming with Tyler Baze to win both of the stakes races.
- Race 6: Mark Casse finished 1st-2nd with 9-to-1 and 8-to-1 shots and the $1 result paid $74.50.
- Race 7: The three highest odds on the board finished 1-2-3 in a field of seven.
- Race 8: Rowdy Yates (Tyler Baze/Steve Asmussen) won the $100,000 Ellis Park Juvenile Stakes. The two-year-old colt won for the second time in three lifetime starts. Obviously, there is another Clint Eastwood fan in the house judging by the horse's name from a TV series of yore called Rawhide.
- Race 9: Green Destiny (Tyler Baze/Steve Asmussen) won the $100,000 Ellis Park Debutante Stakes. The 2-year-old filly won for the second time in three lifetime starts. The $1 super paid over $33,000 when 6-1, 60-1, 9-1 and 75-1 shots finished in the top four.
- Race 1: Princess Miracle (Kelsi Harr/Sue Wiley) won the opener and paid $45.80. The trainer won for the second time in 51 starts this year.
- Race 5: She Be Addie (Alex Canchari/McLean Robertson) paid $21.80 which is an astronomical sum for that trainer in Minnesota.
- McLean Robertson had nine entered today but scratched five. He won one of the three races in which he entered.
- Race 4: The winner obliterated the field with a 20 1/4 length victory.
- Race 5: The winner obliterated the field with a 14 1/2 length victory. Frank Lucarelli, the winning trainer, won at the track for the 1,000th time. He is the winningest trainer in both wins and money earned in the history of the track.
- Kevin Krigger won consecutive races twice and finished with those four victories. He left racing after 2014, had no starts in 2015 and 2016, had 34 mounts in 2017, none in 2018, but now has resumed a full slate in 2019. He rode in the 2013 Kentucky Derby on board Goldencents.
- Race 9: Incredible payouts in the finale. Over $1,300 for the $.50 Pick 3. The $.50 Pick 4 paid over $18,000. The $1 Super High Five paid over $40,000. And the best for last: the $.50 Pick 5 over $155,000.
- Race 7: Prince Earl (Geovanni Franco/Phil D'Amato) won the Grade 2 $300,000 Del Mar Mile Handicap and paid $21.60 as one of the highest odds on the board. He was the only starter not to have run previously in 2019. The layoff didn't affect him. It was the 4-year-old's fifth lifetime race and first graded stakes victory.
- Race 1: Stellar Sound (Drayden Van Dyke/Bob Baffert) won with a first-time starter, a 2-year-old filly.
- Victor Espinoza had a stellar day winning three straight times with four total mounts. He has won 6 of his last 14 rides.
- Handle: $838,428 which included approximately $280,000 on track.
- Explode (Amadeo Perez/Mark Cloutier) won the 90th edition of the $250,000 Canadian Derby after a DQ nullified the initial winner Journeyman (Dane Nelson/Eoin Harty). The pair battled in the stretch but the stewards agreed with jockey Perez in that Journeyman bumped Explode. Explode has a lifetime mark of 10 6-3-1 with his first eight races at Hastings (British Columbia) before winning twice at this track. The runner up had six previous races, three at Tampa Bay (Florida) and three at Arlington (Illinois). This was the first time the Derby was held at this track which opened earlier this year.
Deauville (France):
- Earthlight (Mickael Barzalona/Andre Fabre), an Irish-bred trained in France, remained undefeated and won the Darley Prix Morny and punched a ticket to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.
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