MeSlew
04-17-2013, 07:55 PM
Hello All! For Thursday the 18th of April, here are the tracks and notable races from Slew:
Aqueduct - 1,2,4,6,7,8
Santa Anita - 1,2,4,5,6,7,8
Keeneland - 4,5,6,7,8
Pimlico - 4,5,7
Calder - 3,5,6,7
Also for Thursday we have a Key Horse running:
Divine Luck - Aqu ( 7) GP 12/01/12 # 1
At 5-1 on the ML, this runner should be looked at in this Optional Claimer N1X worth 67K of inflated VLT purse.
Now I'm not sure what to tell you about her and I won't be handicapping this race so I'll stick with an overview.
She comes to us via her maiden win on 12/1 at Gulfstream. Her next run made my short list (see my blog entry for all the notes), but not necessarily because of her:
January 13, 2013 Race 8 - Shug's Devine Luck (Castellano) had just broken her maiden on 12/1/2012 and in this N1X money allowance
on the turf, found the lead only to be closely spied the entire way by Nayarra (Motion) and Edgar Prado. The stretch was not kind
to her and while Nayarra was fixin' to go by…something strange happened: Inaugurate nipped Nayarra at the wire in a blanket finish
while Devine Luck finished 7th by about 2 lengths. The official margin of victory was a neck...
Inaugurate has since finished 3rd in an allowance on 2/24 and 2nd in a stake at Tampa on 4/6. It should be noted that the fractions on 1/13 were fairly severe, especially the interior ones. That turf was a paved highway which you will not see tomorrow at Aqueduct. They went 1:34.65 in Jan for the mile. By contrast, today the boys in an AlwOC went 1:35.58.
Lezcano gets the call this time and maybe he can relax her. Note also that the single Slew runner is Kimmel's Kibosh. And finally, check the 6/7/2012 entry at the bottom of the Tellers Window on Slew's front page for an interesting side note.
Enjoy the Thursday racing...good luck and good 'capping!
Aqueduct - 1,2,4,6,7,8
Santa Anita - 1,2,4,5,6,7,8
Keeneland - 4,5,6,7,8
Pimlico - 4,5,7
Calder - 3,5,6,7
Also for Thursday we have a Key Horse running:
Divine Luck - Aqu ( 7) GP 12/01/12 # 1
At 5-1 on the ML, this runner should be looked at in this Optional Claimer N1X worth 67K of inflated VLT purse.
Now I'm not sure what to tell you about her and I won't be handicapping this race so I'll stick with an overview.
She comes to us via her maiden win on 12/1 at Gulfstream. Her next run made my short list (see my blog entry for all the notes), but not necessarily because of her:
January 13, 2013 Race 8 - Shug's Devine Luck (Castellano) had just broken her maiden on 12/1/2012 and in this N1X money allowance
on the turf, found the lead only to be closely spied the entire way by Nayarra (Motion) and Edgar Prado. The stretch was not kind
to her and while Nayarra was fixin' to go by…something strange happened: Inaugurate nipped Nayarra at the wire in a blanket finish
while Devine Luck finished 7th by about 2 lengths. The official margin of victory was a neck...
Inaugurate has since finished 3rd in an allowance on 2/24 and 2nd in a stake at Tampa on 4/6. It should be noted that the fractions on 1/13 were fairly severe, especially the interior ones. That turf was a paved highway which you will not see tomorrow at Aqueduct. They went 1:34.65 in Jan for the mile. By contrast, today the boys in an AlwOC went 1:35.58.
Lezcano gets the call this time and maybe he can relax her. Note also that the single Slew runner is Kimmel's Kibosh. And finally, check the 6/7/2012 entry at the bottom of the Tellers Window on Slew's front page for an interesting side note.
Enjoy the Thursday racing...good luck and good 'capping!