SAUDI CROWN @ 5/2 and up.
Catch me if you can.
I will box him with the Baffert horse and Il Miracolo.
After reviewing all of today\'s Parx video replays, many of which have been sprints, a couple of obvious observations. GENERALLY:
1. The winner of the early portion of the race goes on to finish strongly. the others tend to fade fast.
2. The late runners fair best closing on the outside. Inside closers not good so far.
3. A couple odds on runners have failed and a couple have one haha i.e. won.
So I don\'t expect the the two Baffert\'s and Scotland to run as a pack on or near the front and produce an exacta or trifecta. The question, which are the candidate to finish late and wide to join the surviving front runner.
of course anything can happen the track is probably changed by now!
02 Dreamlike, 06 Daydreaming Boy or 08 Gilmore to be designated closer.
I\'ll take 08 Gilmore even though he\'s coming off lasix. Geez so many who want the front.
Nice call on MIRACOLO, Roman. He ran well despite the big number in the Smarty Jones, and the \"bo.\"
CAGLIOSTRO, second in the Smarty Jones, got a good number (2+) as well. He\'s scheduled to go in the Oklahoma Derby tonight.
The problem is that he bounced off a 2 in the Indiana Derby. Will he do it again? Generous ML is tempting me to find out.
HIT SHOW is the one to beat, but he\'s drawn outside. Can Prat work out a trip from out there? Blinkers on.
Post time: 7:48 CT
And he was on the worst part of the track, and was 25-1, was hoping he would of got the trip the Pletcher horse, Dreamlike got. I like that Prat is coming in to ride on Hit Show.
On another side note, the sheets had Il Miracolo regressing in the Smarty Jones. I like Cagliostro also.
Why is Pearl’s Earl doing in this race? He looks like he would be 99-1 in a maiden 10k claimer, let alone this spot. Heroic Move is interesting with blinkers off .
Will box Hit Show / Cagliostro / Heroic Move.
Great call for you on Saudi Crown, went to the front and stayed there.
Roman Wrote:
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> Why is Pearl’s Earl doing in this race?
He has a bullet work back in October 2022. ;-)
How Did He Do That only seems to run when he is 45-1 , how does he do that?
prist Wrote:
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> Nice call on MIRACOLO, Roman. He ran well despite
> the big number in the Smarty Jones, and the \"bo.\"
I saw a race so congested anything could have happened and it ended in a mess. Slow early pace produced severely crowded lane late. Bumping & shoving lucky no one was hurt.
Oddest of all Pearl\'s Earl actual beat another horse. Mor Lana Spirit who qualified as the most consistent performer going in and probably should not have attended the early pace slow as it was.
> CAGLIOSTRO, second in the Smarty Jones, got a good
> number (2+) as well. He\'s scheduled to go in the
> Oklahoma Derby tonight. The problem is that he bounced off a 2 in the
> Indiana Derby. Will he do it again? Generous ML is
> tempting me to find out
CAGLIOSTRO was allowed to settled then rallied four wide on the far turn, bore in and bumped with GROVELAND in upper stretch then came up empty in late stretch. The bumping was serious enough to trigger a claim of foul from Groveland against the winner & CagLiostro.
> HIT SHOW is the one to beat, but he\'s drawn outside. Can Prat work out a trip >from out there? Blinkers on.
HIT SHOW was settled while five wide on the backstretch, made a bid four wide
on the far turn then moved out to be seven wide in upper stretch for clear running room but lacked a late closing kick. Not too surprising (to me) he lacked a late kick given all the ground he\'d lost.
I don\'t think the Frenchman wants to return to OK any time soon.
> Post time: 7:48 CT
It would be interesting to know who got the best number. I don\'t think it was any of three horses involved in the photo.
I had flashbacks handicapping this race.
The winner came out of the Super Derby. Used to be a premier stakes for 3yo\'s. Correct me if I\'m wrong, but I believe it was a G1 with a million dollar purse. These days it\'s not even graded.
When I got to CAGLIOSTRO, I was reminded of CALESTOGA. Used to be a real nice sprinter in these parts trained by Neil Boyce. Nice enough to take to the Breeders Cup.
Won by Tiznow before his first Breeders cup classic win.