![]() They're all 3-year-old fillies in Saturday's $100,000 Sweet Life Stakes at Santa Anita with Manhattan Jungle the morning-line favorite in a field of 11.Įleven go in Saturday's $100,000 Pelican at Tampa Bay Downs with Sibelius the morning-line pick. Miss J McKay, a mare of a certain age (6), also tops the morning-line for Saturday's $100,000 Ladies Turf Sprint at the Hallendale Beach oval. The "Old Guys Rule" crowd is at it again in Saturday's $100,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint with 9-year-old Belgrano and 7-year-old Carotari the morning-line favorites in a field of 10. The Tampa Bay oddsmaker gives Grade II Demoiselle winner Julia Shining some love and she could be flying late. She won four of five last year and her numbers stand out. The even-money favorite in a nine-filly field is Wonder Wheel, the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and Eclipse Award winner. Davis is a wide-open affair, the companion $150,000 Suncoast Stakes is anything but - on paper, anyway. 18 at Fair Grounds ups the ante on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" with 50 points to the winner and 20-15-10-5 to the next four finishers. Saturday's 6-furlong Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct and 6 1/2-furlong Valdale on the Turfway Park all-weather are worth a look - probably not for the Derby but one or two from the Winkfield - Drew's Gold and/or Clubhouse - could be on a Preakness course. 8 stall? Yet another from the Baffert barn - Nularbor, coming off a front-running maiden claiming win in a Sana Anita sprint in which he wasn't taken for $62,500. Harcyn steps into the stakes world with a 2-for-2 record.Īnd at the bottom of the page in the outside No. Passarando won the Gold Rush Stakes in December, but regressed in last month's California Cup Derby, getting home third. Several of the others in the El Camino Real have been disputing the local 3-year-old features. He's been ticking along like a Longines watch in his Santa Anita drills. The Twirling Candy colt finished third in his career bow at Del Mar and won in December at Los Alamitos. That's Gilmore, who makes his first start of 2022, and his first on the all-weather, in the 1-mile heat. You travel up the coast from Southern California, where the 3-year-old races are filled with Bob Baffert's talented stock, flip the Golden Gate Fields program to the page for Saturday's $100,000 El Camino Real Derby, and what's the first thing you see in the No. Triple Crown nominees, so there's a hint. 23.īoth Tall Boy and Shirl's Bee are early U.S. Fipke bred the Bee Jersey colt, who won his only previous start at Meydan Dec. The Guineas field also includes Shirl's Bee, trained by Doug Watson for owner-breeder Charles Fipke. He's also still winless after four starts as a 2-year-old but showed some promise while finishing fourth in the Grade I Los Alamitos Futurity. He's a gentle giant with a lot of talent." "He has two Kentucky Derby points already and we like him because he's run three tough races against Bob Baffert horses. ![]() ![]() "The reason he's in Dubai is because we think he's capable of being pointed to the UAE Derby," assistant trainer Leandro Mora said. Lack of American rivals certainly the case for the 2000 Guineas and California-based trainer Doug O'Neill, a Carnival veteran, is ready to pounce with Tall Boy, a Lookin' at Lucky colt, set to make his 3-year-old debut in the event. ![]() Of course, Sheikh Mohammed might have something. If the entries look tilted toward an upset, have a peek at Jungfrau, a Godolphin homebred colt by Arrogate who has been improving through three starts.įriday evening's Group Guineas is the on-ramp for the Group 2 UAE Derby on World Cup night March 25 - a race that's part of the Churchill Downs "Road to the Kentucky Derby" series with 100 points to the winner, 50 to the runner-up, etc.Īnd that Derby in the desert may be the qualifier least likely to be full of expensive, talented runners trained by Bob Baffert (in person or by proxy), Brad Cox or Todd Pletcher. General Banker jumped up from New York-bred company to get show money in the Jerome.Īndiamo a Firenze has mostly competed against locals, too, finishing fourth, beaten more than 12 lengths, when tried in the Grade I Champagne back in October. The rest of the field is composed mostly of New York-breds looking to emulate Arctic Arrogance's move up in the world. Brad Cox brings Hit Show from Oaklawn Park, where he was last seen winning impressively going 1 mile. The Linda Rice trainee, a Frosted colt, gets the nod as the 8-5 favorite. The Withers, run at 1 1/8 miles at the Big A, drew a field of seven, but the oddsmaker has it a virtual match race between the local boy, Arctic Arrogance, and the invader, Hit Show.Īrctic Arrogance emerged from the state-bred ranks to finish second in both the Grade II Remsen in December and the Jerome last month.
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