Memorial Weekend Thread *Track Phantom*

[Track Phantom]

Friday, 5-24-13
Hollywood Park Best Bet
Race 1: #4 RANDINO
Trainer and owner just sent out a first time 2 year old winner on Thur with similar works. This one has very solid 2 year old, win early pedigree. Half to 209k stakes winning 2 year old Reata’s Rocket. Sire 4 of 6 lifetime.
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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 1: #3 FRANKS ON FIRE
Comes in from Oaklawn Park where he was facing better runners and going very long. Now cuts back in distance. Will have to get into the race quicker than norma. Did win the last time at 6 furlongs (9-1-12 at OP). 4 next out winners from last race. Place and 7th place both returned to win at 8k claiming at CD. 5th won at PRM for 15k in next start. 10th place took a 7500 claimer at AP next race.
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[Midnight Cruiser]

Friday, 5-24-13
Hollywood Park Best Bet
Race 1: #4 RANDINO
Trainer and owner just sent out a first time 2 year old winner on Thur with similar works. This one has very solid 2 year old, win early pedigree. Half to 209k stakes winning 2 year old Reata’s Rocket. Sire 4 of 6 lifetime.
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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 1: #3 FRANKS ON FIRE
Comes in from Oaklawn Park where he was facing better runners and going very long. Now cuts back in distance. Will have to get into the race quicker than norma. Did win the last time at 6 furlongs (9-1-12 at OP). 4 next out winners from last race. Place and 7th place both returned to win at 8k claiming at CD. 5th won at PRM for 15k in next start. 10th place took a 7500 claimer at AP next race.
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Tough to watch a horse go down like that. Looked to be a runner. RIP

[Track Phantom]

Tough to watch a horse go down like that. Looked to be a runner. RIP

Was tough to watch. Turned it off right when I saw it. Had nothing to do with the betting.

[Track Phantom]

Saturday, 5-25-13
Hollywood Park Live Longshot
Race 8: #5 EXTENSIVE
Hasn't been on the track since he just missed winning the Del Mar Derby at 25-1. Trainer over 20% with long layoffs of this nature. Working long and pretty quickly. Upset chance off the shelf. Free analysis for the card....
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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 5: #1 CANDY PAINT
Claimed from a key maiden claiming race in which she won at 7-2. Four runners returned from that race to win next start. Ran well in first off the claim when splitting the field from the 12 post vs. tough allowance runners at Fairgrounds. Winner of that race won a 60k stakes three races later. Had excuses in last few. 2nd in last won a 25k claimer at Churchill Downs next out. Backbreeding suggests this runner would take to the turf. Quest Star is back a few generations on the dam side. He won 831k on the turf by winning multiple Grade 2 races in NY, KY and FL (Pan American at GP twice and the National Museum Hall of Fame at Saratoga. For Canterbury analysis, http://stores.trackphantom.com/Stor...rt_id=157035084 (http://stores.trackphantom.com/StoreFront.bok?cart_id=157035084)

[Track Phantom]

Corrected CBY Best Bet. Had Sunday's listed by mistake.

Saturday, 5-25-13
Hollywood Park Live Longshot
Race 8: #5 EXTENSIVE
Hasn't been on the track since he just missed winning the Del Mar Derby at 25-1. Trainer over 20% with long layoffs of this nature. Working long and pretty quickly. Upset chance off the shelf. Free analysis for the card....
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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 4: #5 GETTING BIRDIE
Daughter of 2004 Belmont winner, Birdstone, is making her first start since October when she was 7-5 in a maiden race at RP. She pressed the pace but faded turning for home. That was a route and today she is back to 5 1/2 furlongs. She was 2nd here in August in debut at this distance at 8-1. Winner of that race returned to win a 62k optional claimer at Delaware for Mac Robertson at 7-1. Third place finisher from that race came back to win a MSW at Turf Paradise and an allowance at Turf Paradise 2 starts later. Ran a big race in first at RP two back. Was really running well late but got pinched on the rail and lost any chance to win. Might have been going best before that traffic trouble and she had to settle for 4th beaten 2 lengths. 3rd place finisher from that race won a MSW next out and a 75k stakes two starts later. Working well since April. Has to catch #7 Class of Twentyten to win.
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[Track Phantom]

Sunday, 5-26-13
Hollywood Park Best Bet
Race 4: #9 SOMETHINGS UNUSUAL
Was really running well in last when stuck on the rail and just waiting for an opening. That opening reallly never came and he was not able to stretch his legs. Bred well for the grass and should stay in the clear from the 9 post. Three very good works since last.
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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 5: #1 CANDY PAINT
Daughter of Candy Ride was claimed from her debut by these connections for 12,500. She won that race, which was a key race as 4 runners returned to win right back. Ran well on the grass in 2nd start, an allowance at FG, when she was in the 12 post. Runner-up from last came back to win a 25k claimer at CD at 7-1. 3rd place finisher beat starter allowance foes at Keeneland. Backbreeding says turf. Close relation to 830k grass winner, Quest Star, who won the 2003 and 2004 Pan American at GP. Bullet work for a trainer that wins nearly 20% with mid-level claimers on the grass. Should be saving ground and closing into a fast pace.
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[Muddy]

Sunday, 5-26-13
Hollywood Park Best Bet
Race 4: #9 SOMETHINGS UNUSUAL
Was really running well in last when stuck on the rail and just waiting for an opening. That opening reallly never came and he was not able to stretch his legs. Bred well for the grass and should stay in the clear from the 9 post. Three very good works since last.
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[Zydeco]

Something Unusual is in the 5th.

[Zydeco]

Good call on the :9: !

[magwell]

Good call especially when the fav the 8 looked bad in the post parade ....Thx

[Track Phantom]

Had it singled in the Pick 5 and Pick 6. Lost everything on the 30-1 winner in the 4th. Damn!!

What sucks in the pick 5 is that I hit the all button in race 3. If I would have hit the all button in race 4 instead, it would have been an 18,000 win.

Game can be cruel.

[Track Phantom]

Monday, 5-27-13
Belmont Park Best Bet
Race 10: #3 MARK VALESKI 5-1
Has come back well from a shortened 2012 campaign that had him as a viable player on the Kentucky Derby trail. No disgrace in losing to Graydar in last (G2 New Orleans). He finished in front of Flat Out there and that one came back to win the Wincester in 1:32.4. Graydar was a blowout winner of the Grade 1 Donn in the race previous. Pace sets up nicely for this one at, what should be, a square price.

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Canterbury Park Best Bet
Race 7: #8 BOLD RAIDER 12-1
One of the "horses to watch" after last weekend. He has a good middle move and decent late kick but was in way over his head in last. Winner was stakes placed three times in 2012 behind Heliskier. Third place finisher was 2nd in the Northern Lights. The winner of the allowance race two back has won 10 of 28 lifetime for nearly 200k and is a 6 time stakes winner in Nebraska. Broke slow in last and was very wide throughout. Dam was stakes placed in 2001 and 2002. Should be rolling late on the class drop.

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Hollywood Park Best Bet
Race 9: #7 MARKETING MIX 2-1
Very classy mare has won 8 of 16 starts and was very tough in defeat when running 2nd in the BC F&M Turf in last start. Race is not fulll of early speed and this one likes to track near the front. Should be in perfect position when turning for home. Layoff is the big question but she has been working for quite some time. Trainer 24% first off a long layoff.


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