CD 4

[bellsbendboy]

Difficult maiden claimer going three lomg with SAINT JAMIE who had had major trouble but gets rider relief and Forrest bought the horse that beat her at Tampa and won with that one Sunday. Also Ashima who is bred for this and broke awful in Chicago and Snuggler who split a couple of decent 4yo's in her last.

Impossible starter... but Mithaal is very good now as is Que Candy. Adding Miami and Moon Kid. Four deep in a very odd race.

Ashley' is our single and third off the shelf she should be set. UnB Song filly is probably the pace and if she improves they have her to down.. Pletcher has entered her MTO several times and she is working lights out.

Nightcap CODASCO is lone speed and probably long gone, certainly so if he turfs. Slew on top of Storm Cat is at best a medium sized foot and often turf is not their game, but the course is very firm, the rail is way out and this family is full of graded winners, with the last foal bringing 2.3 million. Cella, Calvin very solid but an unknown trainer makes us add Yates who has been victimized by bad turf rails and up against it again today. Yet he has, hopefully enough gas to get a reasonable seat and always fires. 1,3,6 / 1,3,6,8 3 / 8, 10 BBB

[jackmc]

Alive going into the finale .... $1 WillPays are $1245 for the #8 & $236 for the #10 ....... gl, jmc

[Ron]

Wow, nice call on the 8! Congrats on the 10!

[bellsbendboy]

In retrospect, I suppose, not a difficult sequence. Certainly one ending 8-5 and 6-5 will seldom ring the bell for most cappers, but it is always good to link four and the big horse in the last ran his race at nearly twenty to one.

In leg one, we went three long and Dollase' Yankee Victor filly ($10.80)drew off from a bad bunch. Two back, and coming off a 75 day break this filly closed well to get 4th money behind a filly that has now won four in a row including the stake Saturday at Prairie Meadows. One last point concerning this rather nondescript heat is that there was/is a thread (ongoing) that tried to measure class, and did not reach a consensus conclusion. This filly raced at Santa Anita, Hollywood and Keeneland...her competition Tampa, Charlestown, River Downs etc. !!!

The starter, race seven was beyond comprehendable and the superfecta was made up of two well bet animals and two bombs. As a horizontal player we were able to advance when Leparoux/ M. Maker (9.20) overcame some trouble and ran clear. Of some note is a few trainer stats; Maker, a former Lukas asst. is fabulous with older runners and bats some 35^% with frenchy, and Mike Lauer trainer of the 40-1 runnerup is excellent off the claim. The DRF says he has zero wins the last two years and while an accurate number, it is one of many misleading statistics in that publication due to small sample sizes. "Bigfoot" won a five way shake for the Langfuhr 5yo.

Awesome Ashley, ($5.40) our single delivered and as expected went wire to wire. Homebred from Alex Jr. was softened a bit by comebacking Grade II winner who was very fresh but gamely held. Un B Song filly been smoking her stablemates in the a.m. including Derby hopeful Sam P. and will move to a small stake somewhere where she will once again wire her field at two turns.

Anchor leg featured our key horse and CODASCO ran very well indeed at an inflated price just short of 20-1. He was pressed by the usual run-off horse from Wayne's barn and could not fend off the challenge from th 6-5 winner. With most turf courses, and especially those in the midwest, speed romps when the rail is out and yesterdays setting was 22ft. The winner like most stake horses has a high cruising speed and more than one move. Romans very familiar with the configuration had "Frenchy" send from the outside to get a seat and the comment from the chart states; Yates Black Cat MUCH closer to the pace than usual.... Relatively vanilla sequence. Play again Sunday. Good cappin. BBB