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Post by Makers on Apr 25, 2020 11:18:18 GMT -5
Saturday
Gulfstream Park
Race 1 Pick-3 1,7,9,10/3,8,9/1,4,5,10
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Post by Fish on Apr 25, 2020 11:26:02 GMT -5
Cash it
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Post by Makers on Apr 25, 2020 12:25:58 GMT -5
OAKLAWN PARK
RACE 1
DB
$20.002/6
BET TOTAL:$20.00
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Post by Makers on Apr 29, 2020 5:15:25 GMT -5
Picture southern California racing without Del Mar. Without Santa Anita. Without Bob Baffert.
Right now one is out of season. Another has had racing suspended. And the third has actually thought about the unthinkable.
“It’s one of those things where I’m going to have to make a big decision if I leave,” Baffert told VSiN in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon. “I don’t like to think about it, but it’s there. Am I going to have to?”
Wearing safety masks, Baffert and his wife Jill had spent the morning with a few dozen other racing supporters picketing outside the weekly meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. They hoped to convince leaders to allow Santa Anita Park to resume closed-door racing for the first time since the Department of Public Health ordered a shutdown March 27 as a safeguard against the coronavirus. This was despite the pushback by track management that Santa Anita has not had a positive test, even among the more than 750 people who live and work at its stables.
America’s most famous trainer, Baffert, 67, is in his 33rd year of racing in southern California. In a Hall of Fame career he has won 15 classics including five runnings of the Kentucky Derby. He also has the sport’s only two Triple Crowns in that third of a century.
He has also seen the sport come under siege the past two years at Santa Anita, first with a rash of racehorse deaths and now with the coronavirus shutdown. But he has also seen other forms of erosion.
“We’re just not getting the help that we would like to get from the state,” he said. “Other states have (sports) gambling, the (slot) machines and whatever where they can supplement the purses. If we could have something like that, but we don’t. All we have is good horses, and we’re running short of good horses. It’s getting tougher and tougher, and regulation in California is tough. When you are running only three days a week it makes it tough. You can’t get good horses in.”
Without any races for the past month, Baffert and other Santa Anita trainers have been forced to stand pat or absorb the cost of shipping horses to active states like Arkansas. That is where Baffert is running two of his best Kentucky Derby contenders – Charlatan and Nadal – in Saturday’s two divisions of the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park.
“I’ve sent a few horses with Jimmy (Barnes, his assistant) to Oaklawn Park, and we’ve been shuffling back and forth,” Baffert said. “But the expense is pretty high flying these horses in there. So they had better win to pay for their flight.”
Because of that Baffert said that if he actually were to make a move, he would not want to split his stable.
“I’d have to leave everything,” he said. “You can’t split it up. You have to be all in. I’m not quite there yet.”
Baffert pointed out that his clients are not based in California but back east. “They’re with me because of me. They want to be with me, but they would rather be running on the east coast.”
Right now he is waiting to see first what L.A. County supervisors might do. Tuesday’s passage of a “Roadmap to Economic Recovery” was regarded by racing advocates as a positive sign, but the green light still had yet to be given to get Santa Anita going again.
“These next couple weeks, if Santa Anita doesn’t open up soon, it’s going to get be hard to get those horses to come back,” Baffert said. “I’m going to stay here in California, but eventually if there’s nobody to run against it’s going to be tough. That’s what I’m afraid of.”
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Post by Makers on Apr 30, 2020 3:13:15 GMT -5
Saturday is closing day at Oaklawn Park and features the $500,000 Arkansas Derby (G1), which has been split into two divisions, with 11 three-year-olds entered in each race. That number was reduced to 10 as Shooters Shoot will scratch out of the first division after spiking a fever and Fast Enough will miss the second division after his connections said the colt has a minor shin injury. Each race will offer up 100-40-20-10 points toward entry into the Kentucky Derby (G1), which was supposed to be contested on Saturday. The Run for the Roses has been shifted to Sept. 5, and Oaklawn Park decided to move their marquee race to the first Saturday of May. all of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has a strong entry in both races. He sends out Charlatan in the first division. The colt has earned Beyer Speed Figures of 105 and 106 in his two career starts and makes his stakes debut on Saturday. In the second division Baffert will saddle the undefeated Nadal, who won the Rebel (G2) over the Oaklawn Park main track on March 14. The races will be televised on Fox Sports 1 and the NBC Sports Network. Sandwiched between the two divisions of the Arkansas Derby is the $600,000 Oaklawn Handicap (G2) which drew a strong field of older runners. Baffert sends out Improbable, who was the runner up in the Oaklawn Mile in his last outing. He faces a strong group that includes New Orleans Handicap (G2) winner By My Standards, last year’s Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers (G1) runner up Tacitus and Santa Anita Handicap (G1) winner Combatant.
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Apr 30, 2020 10:00:33 GMT -5
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Post by Makers on Apr 30, 2020 10:00:33 GMT -5
Santa Anita Park is targeting a return of live racing on May 15 with strict safety protocols that would include a ban on spectators. A condition book for racing’s reboot at Santa Anita is set to be released on Thursday.
Santa Anita Park revealed the plan to resume racing in a letter sent Wednesday to Greg Avioli, president of the Thoroughbred Owners of California; Alan Balch, executive director of California Thoroughbred Trainers; and Darrel Haire, regional manager of the Jockeys’ Guild.
The target date coincides with Los Angeles County’s timetable to end its “safer-at-home” order.
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Post by Makers on May 3, 2020 6:20:44 GMT -5
Churchill Downs will open stables at the track and training center in phases starting May 11 before races are run during its spring meet without spectators.
The historic track postponed the Kentucky Derby last month from May 2 to Sept. 5 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will mark the first time since 1945 horse racing's marquee event will not run on the first Saturday in May.
The opening of stables closed since Dec. 31 for winter renovations has been being delayed several times. The spring meet was scheduled to open last Saturday.
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Post by Makers on May 3, 2020 6:40:09 GMT -5
Santa Anita Derby date set as full stakes schedule's released
When Santa Anita Park's condition book was released this week for a hopeful return to racing on May 15, it included stakes through the end of the month. A day later, we now have the full would-be lineup for the rest of the spring meet led by a blockbuster June 6 card.
That afternoon, each of the Santa Anita Derby (G1) for 3-year-olds, Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1) for older horses and Santa Anita Oaks (G2) for fillies are set to run along with two other open stakes and a pair of events restricted to California-breds.
This is all, of course, pending the local pull back on a "safer-at-home" order that determined racing at Santa Anita as a non-essential business. Track officials released a condition book so as to give horsemen notice of what would be carded in the event racing can resume.
The Santa Anita Derby will renew as a $400,000 race, down from its regular $1 million, and should carry its regular points payout (100-40-20-10) toward a spot in the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby. Expect Bob Baffert-trained Authentic, who is back on the work tab, to go favored.
The Santa Anita Oaks, worth $200,000, is a Kentucky Oaks prep along the same lines. One of California's top sophomore fillies, Venetian Harbor, ran a game second in Friday's Fantasy Stakes (G3) while Donna Veloce has been sidelined in recent weeks due to injury.
Both the Santa Anita Derby and Oaks were originally scheduled for April 4. As for the Gold Cup, it moves from the Memorial Day card to a prominent spot for a $300,000 edition. Last year, Vino Rosso shipped and won the race before returning in the fall to annex the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Other stakes races scheduled for June 6 include the Desert Code Stakes, a turf sprint for 3-year-olds; the Cinema Stakes, a turf route for sophomores; the Crystal Water Stakes for Cal-breds on the lawn; and the Fran's Valentine Stakes for Cal-bred fillies over grass.
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Post by Makers on May 3, 2020 9:05:58 GMT -5
Ortiz could win half of the races at Gulfstream today....
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Post by Makers on May 3, 2020 12:29:30 GMT -5
Ortiz could win half of the races at Gulfstream today.... Irad wins first 2. Daily Double pays $2.00 :)
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Post by Makers on May 5, 2020 4:14:04 GMT -5
No fans...No problem!
$41 Million Wagered On Oaklawn’s Closing-Day Program, Doubling Previous Record
The 2020 Thoroughbred racing meet at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Ark., was one for the history books.
It began with festive crowds and an opening day record for pari-mutuel handle on Jan. 24 and ended on May 2 with an empty grandstand, two divisions of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby, and wagering of more than $41 million that more than doubled any previous day in the track's 116-year history under the ownership of the Cella family.
Midway through the meeting, when the coronavirus outbreak was officially called a pandemic by the World Health Organization, Oaklawn joined other racetracks around the country and announced it would continue racing without on-site attendance. Unlike many other tracks, Oaklawn was allowed to continue to race by state and local officials – under strict protocols to help prevent the spread of the virus – and made it to the finish line.
Along the way, the stakes schedule was juggled, moving most of the traditional Racing Festival of the South races from mid-April to the final week of the season, including the Arkansas Derby, which would be split in divisions for the first time since 1960.
By closing day, on what in any other year would have been Kentucky Derby day with the eyes of the racing world on Louisville, Ky., there were only three Thoroughbred tracks racing on weekends: Oaklawn, Gulfstream Park and Tampa Bay Downs. While Churchill Downs is now set for a delayed opening of its spring meet on May 16, the Kentucky Derby has been postponed until Sept. 5.
With no other major sports being conducted and live horse racing making it on to NBCSN and FS1 networks, Oaklawn's 14-race card was manna from heaven for hungry horseplayers. Oaklawn lost out on its typically large crowds on big days, and its casino has been closed since March. But wagering on Oaklawn's races set records, thanks to advance deposit wagering, limited competition and a captive, stay-at-home audience.
Going into the 2020 meet, Oaklawn's all-time record single-day wagering record was the $16,221,639 bet on Rebel Stakes day in 2019, when the Kentucky Derby prep was run in divisions.
On April 18, 2020, more than $19 million was wagered on an 11-race card highlighted by the G3 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap and G1 Apple Blossom Handicap.
Closing day – which also featured a large, competitive field in the G2 Oaklawn Handicap for older runners – more than doubled that record, with $40,906,451 wagered off track. Another $100,750 was bet on track by trainers and other connections of the horses who ran in the 14 races, bringing the total to $41,007,201.
That's a record that may stand for a long time.
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Post by Makers on May 5, 2020 4:19:56 GMT -5
Baffert: $3.65 million Cezanne 'about 30 days away' from debut
Could Bob Baffert’s “Big 3” group of sophomores soon have some company?
The Hall of Fame trainer says Cezanne, a $3.65 million son of Curlin to be campaigned by Coolmore, is “probably about 30 days away from a race,” his debut that could arrive assuming Santa Anita Park is able to resume its meet.
“He’s still a little bit behind,” Baffert said. “I’m just starting to lean on him now. He’s really grown up to be a big, beautiful horse.”
Cezanne, who worked as early as July of 2019, has been in and out of training since then. His current string of works dates back to April 15, with his most recent breeze at Santa Anita five furlongs last Thursday in 59.80.
Nadal (4-for-4) and Charlatan (3-for-3) are unbeaten Grade 1 winners for the Baffert barn exiting split divisions of the Arkansas Derby. Authentic (3-for-3) is pointing toward the rescheduled Santa Anita Derby as the likely favorite in the June 6 race.
By then, the Baffert barn may have another 3-year-old tracking toward the 2020 Kentucky Derby.
“We’re just bringing him along at his own schedule — no rushing,” the trainer said of Cezanne. “He looks good, though.”
The most expensive horse in Baffert’s barn was plucked out of the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-Year-Olds in Training sale for a record sum. Hip 173, as he was at the time, had drilled the co-second-fastest eighth-mile breeze and galloped out strongly at Gulfstream Park.
Named after the French artist Paul Cézanne, the colt was bred by Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings and Vinnie Viola's St. Elias Stables. Out of the Bernardini mare Achieving, Cezanne is a half-brother to Group 1-placed Arabian Hope and Counterforce, a stakes winner.
Coolmore and unnamed partners outbid an unknown party for Cezanne, who Baffert called a “wow horse” in the weeks after the sale.
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Post by Makers on May 9, 2020 5:13:55 GMT -5
3 dates still possible for 2020 Preakness
The Maryland Jockey Club and NBC Sports have set aside three possible dates, a person with knowledge of negotiations said. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because no decision has been made among the dates.
The NBC affiliate in Baltimore reported the Preakness will be run Oct. 3. The person tells The AP that is one of the three possible dates, along with one each in July and August.
State and local authorities, racing officials and TV executives are expected to make the determination based on the health and safety situation as it develops.
Maryland Jockey Club president Sal Sinatra says officials are still working with NBC Sports on rescheduling the race, which would have been run May 16. That date was scratched by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Stronach Group - which owns Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore - said in a statement, ''There is no definitive date set and we continue to explore options'' for the Preakness.
The Kentucky Derby has been rescheduled from May 2 to Sept. 5. The Belmont Stakes, scheduled for June 6, like the Preakness doesn't have a new date yet.
Spokesman Pat McKenna said the New York Racing Association ''is in the process of working with state and local officials to safely resume live racing at Belmont Park. A determination about the timing of the 2020 Belmont Stakes will be made only after we have clarity on the opening of the Belmont spring/summer meet.''
The timing of the Preakness could have ripple effects on the Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup, which is set for Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky. It's possible the Triple Crown races could be run out of order and at different distances depending on the calendar.
Regardless of when the Preakness is held, the infield is expected to be closed. Track officials decided on April 3 to cancel Infieldfest, where tens of thousand fans gather to drink beer, socialize, attend free concerts and bet on races.
The infield usually makes up the lion's share of attendance at the race, which last year drew 131,256 fans and took in a track-record handle of $99,852,653
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Post by Makers on May 9, 2020 6:55:58 GMT -5
G ulfstream Park’s Mandatory Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot is expected to balloon to over $6 million on Saturday and the key race to the Pick 6 sequence is the Sunshine Forever Stakes. Saturday’s feature at Gulfstream Park, is also the lone stakes race taking place in America. As a result, the 1 1/16th-mile grass event drew a full, accomplished field of 12 (including one MTO). Post time for the Sunshine Forever, Race 9 of 12 on the day, is 4:59 pm ET. The race can be seen on NCBSN and TVG.
#6 HALLADAY (4-1)* appears to be the speed of the race, with #3 EL TORMENTA and #12 WAR OF WILL the only two likely to apply early pressure. However, the former sheds blinkers for this while the latter will expend plenty of energy from the far outside post. HALLADAY has shown an affinity for this course, winning a salty allowance/optional claiming event here while just one start removed from a victory in the Tropical Park Derby. The Todd Pletcher trainee has demonstrated ability to win up front or stalk if necessary, so that gives Luis Saez tactical options.
#9 SOCIAL PARANOIA (3-1)* completes a strong one-two punch for the Pletcher barn here. He closed into a strong pace to win the Grade III Appleton over this course last time out, his second straight victory following his Dueling Grounds Derby triumph at Kentucky Downs last September. However, SOCIAL PARANOIA getting the inferior jockey assignment of the two Pletcher trainees (Edgard Zayas compared to Saez on HALLADAY) does not inspire confidence.
#11 ADMISSION OFFICE (5-2, morning-line favorite)* should be rolling late under Joel Rosario. He hung late in the Grade II Mac Diarmida at Gulfstream last time out but cuts back and drops in class in the Sunshine Forever. However, ADMISSION OFFICE is a deep closer and could be hurt by a lack of pace in this one.
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Post by Makers on May 11, 2020 7:14:41 GMT -5
Thoroughbred racing returns to California on Thursday when Golden Gate Fields hosts a nine-race program starting at 3:45 p.m. ET. The card will feature a mandatory payout of the Golden Pick 6, which has a carryover of $398,294. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, racing at Golden Gate was suspended on April 2 by the Alameda County Department of Public Health. Last week, track officials received notice they could resume racing starting Thursday. A total of 80 horses were entered for an average field size of 8.8 starters per race. The Golden Pick 6 begins in race No. 4 with an approximate post time of 5:15 p.m. ET. The sequence consists entirely of low-level claiming and maiden-claiming events. Golden Gate plans to run its usual Thursday through Sunday schedule through the conclusion of the winter-spring meet on June 14. Heading into the homestretch, jockey Juan Hernandez holds a commanding lead in the jockey standings with 101 wins, which is more than double the next closest pursuer (William Antongeorgi III). In the trainer standings, Jonathan Wong holds an equally insurmountable advantage. He leads the table with 60 victories and is followed by Isidro Tamayo, who has 26 wins.
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