Horse Racing: Vinny Viola: Stanley Cup champion; Churchill Downs' card on Saturday has multiple stakes

[GKJ]

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Royal Ascot (England):

• Handle: Approximately $5 million per race for the 5-day event, seven races each day.
• Race 3: Khaadem (Oisin Murphy/Charles Hills) won the Group I $1.27 million (US) Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, the signature event at the meet, by a half-length at the lofty odds of 14-to-1 ($34.60 in North America pools). Last year, he won at 80-to-1. Khadeem lost his last four races with the most recent win being this race in 2023, his lone two winners in his past 12 runs. The 8-year-old has nine wins in 35 starts. Khaadem is the first 8-year-old to win this race and prior the last repeat winner was Right Boy in 1958-59.
• Day 5 of 5:

Belmont at Aqueduct (New York):

• Chad Brown is at his best at his home tracks but today he teamed with Flavien Prat three times and won each. The past two days, Brown won four of the five races he entered and finished 8 4-3-0 (dual entries in three losses). Prat-Brown is a perfect 4-for-4 the past two days. Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables was the winning owner each time. Unfortunately for the smaller handicapper, the early $1 double paid $2.

Thistledown (Ohio):

• Handle: $3.2 million of which $1.2 million was bet on the Ohio Derby, the state's biggest.
• Erik Barbaran rode three times and returned two winners both in stakes. He plies his craft now in the West Virginia-Ohio circuits. He was named Jockey of the Week in North America a few weeks ago.
• David Haldar-Megan Fadlovich teamed for two double-digit winners at 11-1 and 20-1. Fadlovich rode from places ranging from Suffolk Downs (MA) to Mountaineer (WV) to Turf Paradise (AZ) prior to becoming a trainer in 2020. She endured great hardship on Valentine's Day 2020 when her boyfriend Coty Davidson died in a car accident in which she was seriously injured. A rose bloomed today.
• Luis Saez, one of the nation's top jocks, was 4 0-1-0 in an underwhelming day at a track in which he rarely visits. Talk about burning money, his horses were sent off:
  • 2-to-1
  • 1-to-5
  • 4-to-5
  • 4-to-5
• Race 12: Misty Veil (Ramon Vazquez/Michael Maker) won the $250,000 Lady Jacqueline Stakes.

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• Race 13: Batten Down (Junior Alvarado/Bill Mott) wired the field at 3-to-1 to win the $500,000 Grade 3 Ohio Derby. The lightly raced 3-year-old broke his maiden in his last prior start, his fourth lifetime. Unfortunately, four of the ten horses entered scratched and thus betting options were reduced.

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Laurel (Maryland):

• Race 4: Play Like a Colt (Sheldon Russell/Brittany Russell) is a nice looking colt. Brittany is part owner for the horses assumingly for the football team and a Maryland bred. A 300-day layofff.

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Churchill Downs (Kentucky):

• Race 7: Vahva (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Cherie DeVaux) won the Grade 3 $250,000 Chicago Stakes as expected at 4-to-5..

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Saturday/recap/photos;

First Tracks Cumberland – Maine Harness Racing

www.firsttrackscumberland.com

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunday: Brittany Russell won two races so far with maidens winning both including a $310,000 first-time starter owned by Mike Repole.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Ruidoso (NM) has carded races for Friday and Saturday with post times at 11:00 am local time (Mountain). Hopefully all in the region are safe after the fires that affected many residents and the racing community. Ruidoso is a good track for quarter horses. Time trials appear to be what is carded and eventually the track will host a $1,000,000 race. That is 1:00 pm ET for first post. Saturday has an extensive 17 races.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Bangor recap Sunday;

Maine Standardbred Breeders & Owners Assoc. – Maine Sire Stakes

www.mainesirestakes.com

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

another new source link: just launched by USTA

Home

www.harnessracing.com

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Charles Town organizational update:

BloodHorse: Thoroughbred Horse Racing, Breeding, and Sales News, Data, Analysis, Photos, and Videos - BloodHorse

News and Analysis on Thoroughbred Horse Racing, Breeding, and Sales.

www.bloodhorse.com

 

[GKJ]

Cool record to close in on considering she's remained at Woodbine.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Churchill Downs on Saturday (June 29):

Race	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
1	$66,000	Claiming	1 1/16 M	Dirt	8	12:45 PM ET
2	$48,000	Claiming	1 1/16 M	Dirt	11	1:15 PM ET
3	$75,000	Claiming	7 F	Dirt	8	1:45 PM ET
4	$120,000	Maiden Special Weight	6 F	Dirt	16	2:15 PM ET
5	$127,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	1 1/16 M	Dirt	16	2:45 PM ET
6	$134,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	1 1/16 M	Dirt	12	3:19 PM ET
7	$500,000	Wise Dan S.	1 1/16 M	Turf	6	3:52 PM ET
8	$500,000	Fasig-Tipton Fleur de Lis S.	1 1/8 M	Dirt	6	4:25 PM ET
9	$250,000	American Derby	1 1/16 M	Turf	8	4:58 PM ET
10	$250,000	Kelly's Landing S.	6 1/2 F	Dirt	8	5:31 PM ET
11	$1,000,000	Stephen Foster S.	1 1/8 M	Dirt	9	6:03 PM ET
12	$250,000	Tepin S.	1 M	Turf	11	6:32 PM ET

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Congrats to Vinny Viola on winning the Stanley Cup. First came the Kentucky Derby now the Cup. Arguably the two toughest trophies in North America to win. Paul Maurice and Todd Pletcher can exchange hardships, too,

Lord Stanley may be making his way to Gulfstream.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

John Velazquez is riding in Ireland, a first for him, on Wednesday (tomorrow).

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Steve Asmussen is sending out 51 horses Friday through Sunday at Lone Star (TX) and Churchill (KY) combined. That is just two tracks! What an extensive barn. And some tracks have yet to post Saturday and Sunday.

Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Churchill 6	Churchill 10	Churchill 12	28
Lone Star 9	Lone Star 10	Lone Star 4	23
Total 15	Total 20	Total 16	51

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

i just learned something new that may be of some slight interest to y'all. jose santos jr is a jockey agent to about 8 different riders. most agents represent 2-3 riders, depending on the tracks' jurisdictions. his riders cover 3-4 racing circuits.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

i just learned something new that may be of some slight interest to y'all. jose santos jr is a jockey agent to about 8 different riders. most agents represent 2-3 riders, depending on the tracks' jurisdictions. his riders cover 3-4 racing circuits.

That is a significant total. I don't recall seeing one agent with a deep roster. I could be mistaken but I think the prominent jurisdictions permit two journeymen and one bug per agent. I looking at Santos's clients.... he may have one but in Chris Elliott (Stewart's son) and the rest could be spread to different areas.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Thistledown (Ohio):

• Erik Barbaran rode three times and returned two winners both in stakes. He plies his craft now in the West Virginia-Ohio circuits. He was named Jockey of the Week in North America a few weeks ago.

North America's Jockey of the Week for the second time. He had 11 wins in the latest period. Quite the feat.