Laurie Ross
Iron Maidens Thoroughbred
JUVENILE TURF
Air Support – Well-bred colt regressed slightly last time out, but is poised to take a step forward.
Pluck – Has a very quick turn of foot and can sprint away from the field at the end.
Banned – Son of Champion Kitten’s Joy has won his last two races by eight lengths.
Soldat – Winner of the With Anticipation (G3) had trouble in his next race but…
PLETCHER CONCERNED BY LIFE AT TEN’S PERFORMANCE
Bob Hill
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – When the gate opened for the $2,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic you could hear the more than 41,000 fans gasp in unison as Life At Ten broke more than five lengths behind the rest of the field. Most handicappers had anticipated that she would be near the lead of the race, and thus the pace scenario was upside-down right away.
Malibu Prayer and…
Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Shared Account looked defending champion Midday in the eye coming down the stretch in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf and Midday blinked as Shared Account held her off in a wild finish to win by a neck. Keertana, another long shot, was another neck back in third.
Shared Account, a 4-year-old daughter of Pleasantly Perfect, rewarded her few backers with $94 for the win as she was sent…
TrackSideView’s entire team of handicappers offer up their picks for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup races to be run at Churchill Downs on Saturday Nov. 6. The races are listed in their running order starting with Race 4 on Saturday. (The asterisks * are “if your world turned upside-down picks.” In other words, huge longshots.)
If you didn’t score on Friday, here’s your chance to get ahead for the weekend.
Good luck and enjoy the races.
BREEDERS’ CUP JUVENILE TURF
Rick Francis’ picks: 13-5-12-9
Bob Hill
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jacks or Better Farms’ Awesome Feather made trainer Stanley Gold and jockey Jeffrey Sanchez first time Breeders’ Cup winners as she ran down a game R Heat Lightning to win the Juvenile Filly by 2½ lengths. The homebred filly by Awesome of Course out of the Gone West mare Precious Feather went off as the 4-1 co-favorite with A Z Warrior.
“I waited and waited with my filly. I wanted…
Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dubai Majesty never was far off the lead from the start of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint and then took moved between horses at the quarter-pole to run off to a convincing win in the seven-furlong race.
Gabby’s Golden Girl was the quickest out of the gate and had compstany from Secret Gypsy, Champagne d’Oro and Switch as the first quarter went in 22.56. Dubai Majesty was sitting…
Bob Hill
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Food Network celebrity Bobby Flay’s More Than Real got the jump on even-money favorite Winter Memories in route to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. More Than Real is trained by Todd Pletcher and was ridden by Garrett Gomez.
Long shots Dos Lunas and Fancy Point hustled from the gate and became the pace setters through opening fractions of 23.57, 47.58, and 1:12.38. They were followed closely by…
BOREL, CASTELLANO TANGLE AFTER RACE FOR BUMPING INCIDENT
Ron Correll
Senior columnist
Tracksideview.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The aftermath of the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, won by Eldaafer, provided more excitement than the race itself when jockey Calvin Borel attacked jockey Javier Castellano for an incident at the five-sixteenth pole that almost caused two horses to fall.
Castellano, aboard Prince Will I Am, bulled his way off the rail and collided with Romp and Martin Garcia, who then hit A.U.…
Tracksideview.com and Churchill Downs reports
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Zayat Stable’s 4-year-old filly Rightly So, the 3-1 morning-line favorite for the $1 million Sentient Jet Filly & Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs, was scratched on Friday morning after being examined by the Breeders’ Cup Veterinary Panal that determined that she was lame when examined.
“They (the veterinarians) came back to the barn and looked at her again. They were not happy with the way she was moving and said they would…
Tracksideview. com and Churchill Downs reports
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s Crown of Thorn, second choice in the morning line at 4-1 for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Saturday at Churchill Downs, was withdrawn from the race Friday morning by trainer Richard Mandella following a “flare up of an old injury.”
The Hall of Fame conditioner noticed a problem with the 5-year-old son of Repent when he was cooling out following his training gallop Thursday morning.
“There…
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