Barbaro's full brother, Nicanor makes his racing debut at Gulfstream Park today in the 8th race of the day. I'll be there and give you a full report with pictures and all after the race. Nicanor is trained by Michael Matz and will be ridden by Edgar Prado.
Today is the last day of the Public handicappers Winter of our Discontent contest. Two of the races are at GP, the G3 Holy Bull and the G1 Donn Handicap. I didn't have time to do the other two races this week, but here is my analysis of the two big races at GP today.
G3 Holy Bull Stakes
#2 Danger To Society
3-1
9-2
#10 West Side Bernie
4-1
6-1
#11 Beethoven
4-1
6-1
#8 Idol Maker
6-1
9-1
#2 Impressive Allowance winner gets favorable post draw. #10 2yo G3 winner will be hampered by outside post position #11 Another 2yo G2 winner will be hampered by the extreme outside post position. #8 Most impressive of the rest with Pletcher/Velasquez combo, but still has to deal with pp8. Outside post positions at 9 furlongs are very difficult from 8 out.
G1 Donn Handicap
#2 Albertus Maximus
8-5
5-2
#10 Einstein
6-1
9-1
#3 Anak Nakai
6-1
9-1
#7 Arson Squad
6-1
9-1
#2 Along with Einstein, clearly the best but gets the luck of the PP draw. Outside post diminishes the chances of a great horse and Pitts is only 5% off layoff #3 Gets much improved post from the Hal's Hope race and should look better. #7 G2 winner is 3 for 5 at the distance. Dutrow is 25% off layoff.
I'll see you later tonight or tomorrow with some pictures of Barbaro's baby brother
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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2 comments:
Looks like ALBERTUS MAXIMUS saved your day like he did mine. Sure had to work hard...too bad about the track bias...no way FINALLYMADEIT defeats EINSTEIN for second on a fair track.
Finallymadeit had the ideal pp for his running style and could've been made a contender in this race except that he just ran in the Sunshine Millions last Saturday. I didn't think he had two races of this quality in him back to back.
I was amazed with how gamely he held on down the stretch. He certainly had me doing a body english job to AM over the finish line first.
Einstein ran a great race considering where he had to start from
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