Grade 2 Lane's End Stakes-Purse $500,00 Distance 1 1/8 Miles

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Not much speed in this race...



Grade 2 Lane's End Stakes

Purse $500,00 Distance 11/8 Miles
Turfway Park




#1 DUKE OF DE BUQE (12-1 ML) - New York bred DIXIE UNION colt passed his first level state bred allowance test by 5 1/2 widening lengths on February 8 going 1 1/16 miles at Aqueduct. He's a need to lead type with real good early speed and this race appears as if it will lack pace with the exception of #3 CHITOZ and #8 HALO NAJIB. Been training well over the deep Belmont Park training track. Gets the rock solid Julien Leparoux in the saddle for Todd Pletcher and is a homebred for the Antsu Stables.

The whole thing = http://www.fullcardreports.com/CAP/08-lanesend.asp :cool:

[sammy the sage]

DUPE :rolleyes:

[Marshall Bennett]

Will be interesting to watch the final clocking .... bet its slooooow !! :cool:

[OTM Al]

They are all lucky the filly that won the Battaglia isn't running back here....

[Marshall Bennett]

Don't know what everyone else here thinks but none of these derby prep races over synthetics interest me much at all . How much of a factor can you truely invest into the derby after running on a totally different surface . Probably a thread in itself but just curious ?

[dylbert]

Will be interesting to watch the final clocking .... bet its slooooow !! :cool:I understand that Turfway Park had its sundial recalibrated this week!

[Bubbles]

Racecar Rhapsody ran a winning race. Looked like he was going to pull a Street Sense when he was picking off horses on the rail down the backstretch, but when the #1 horse had had enough, 'Rhapsody had to stop. He was in contention going into the stretch, but the go-stop-go trip took its toll. Not a bad ride, just horrible racing luck.

Adriano looks like a poly/turf monster. Shame he hasn't shown much on the real stuff, though.

[Tom]

I think the only thing you can use the synth preps for is conditioning. Running over plastic can sharpen the horse's form, but I think youhave to look at dirt races to see what he can do when in form. The winner today is of no interest to me for any triple crown race. Perhaps they should look at the turf races on the undercards.

[Marshall Bennett]

The winning horse's trainer said before the race if his horse won he wouldn't go to the derby because his horse can't run on dirt . Guess we learned a lot from from this prep . :mad: btw .... he's a fool if he doesn't go anyway !!

[Robert Fischer]

Adriano has a pedigree that could run on dirt as well. Physically he is up there near the top of the 3yo class. (although the other stud in the class Alaazo ran a complete dud, so looks aren't everything). I loved the forward position he attained here today. He showed a little bit more speed.

As for the FOY dirt try, Nobody has ever won from the 12 post at 9 furlongs @ Gulfstream, but you would like to have seen a little more in that race. Hard to completely discount him as a dirt runner based on that effort. After the run today, it is impossible to discount him without giving him another chance to succeed or fail.

[Robert Fischer]

The stud Adriano's unorthodox "stiff" high right front
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/8784/adriano2dz9.jpg
reach for the stars
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5130/adriano3nq1.jpg




Desormeaux and Halo Najib win 2nd
swing over
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6523/najibmedjool1gr1.jpg

direct hit of kickback-to-nose
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3704/najibmedjool2ag5.jpg
4 right hands for good measure
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/674/najibmedjool3hk5.jpg


video @
http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2008/videos