peculiar claim

[pandy]

The Daily Racing Form has a service called Breeze Figs which puts a speed rating on the works at the major 2yo in training sales. Sunday At Nipper's sold for $25k at Keeneland but in 2011, she worked a par 62 Breeze Fig at the Fasig Tiptop sale and was scratched from the sale. Horses are often scratched because the owners changed their mind about selling. Someone connected to Guerrero may have been interested in this Kentucky Bred filly at the sale and saw an opportunity to buy her now after she's been broken, gate trained, etc.

[FrankieFigs]

Sunday at Nipper's finished 7th of 8, beaten 10 lengths. Went off as the fav.

[Cholly]

Originally Posted by FrankieFigs

Sunday at Nipper's finished 7th of 8, beaten 10 lengths. Went off as the fav.

Yeah, didn't run like a fav; ran more like...a 24-1 shot.

[pandy]

Whatever juice this guy might have been using at Parx, there's no way he's using it here. I would imagine that the NYRA is keeping a very close eye on him.

[tzipi]

Wins like a monster at one track, gets trounced at another. Big red flag.

[Producer]

NYRA announced today its going to be lowering the purses for the bottom level claiming races and also raising the lowest level from 7,500 to 10,000 at Aqueduct and from 10,000 to 12,500 at Belmont.

Guerrero has never had a problem claiming a horse that on paper looked like there was no reason to claim the horse. Its just now they aren't moving up like they were at philly.

[igiveupregistering]

Originally Posted by Producer

NYRA announced today its going to be lowering the purses for the bottom level claiming races and also raising the lowest level from 7,500 to 10,000 at Aqueduct and from 10,000 to 12,500 at Belmont.

Guerrero has never had a problem claiming a horse that on paper looked like there was no reason to claim the horse. Its just now they aren't moving up like they were at philly.

Can't win in NY...big surprise

[Cholly]

I started the thread about Sunday at Nipper’s, so I can't let her death go unmarked. Her brief career came to an end in Belmont’s 5th race today—ironically, Friday the 13th.

After being claimed out of the race where she debuted at 24-1, she had a moment in the sun, blowing the field away and winning a maiden claiming race by nine lengths. I didn’t see the race, it was sort of cheap, but I hope she was strutting like a queen in what would be her only visit to a winner’s circle She finished off the board in her subsequent start and then died on the track today in her 5th lifetime race.

I always feel pain and remorse a when I see a horse die on the track. But after reading this week of questions about the care given horses by certain Asmussen family members—well, at least Sunday at Nipper’s didn’t die in a kill pen. She went down doing the thing she was bred to do,the thing she was trained to do…and, we can only hope, the thing she loved to do.

R.I.P. Sunday at Nipper’s

[Linny]

I picked her today and saw the results before I saw the race. The abbreviated results showed her "last" which was somewhat surprising. I just watched the replays of the races I missed (while attending a wake and tending to my wounded jumper) and saw that "last" wasn't the whole story.

RIP Sunday at Nipper's.

[thaskalos]

Originally Posted by Cholly

I started the thread about Sunday at Nipper’s, so I can't let her death go unmarked. Her brief career came to an end in Belmont’s 5th race today—ironically, Friday the 13th.

After being claimed out of the race where she debuted at 24-1, she had a moment in the sun, blowing the field away and winning a maiden claiming race by nine lengths. I didn’t see the race, it was sort of cheap, but I hope she was strutting like a queen in what would be her only visit to a winner’s circle She finished off the board in her subsequent start and then died on the track today in her 5th lifetime race.

I always feel pain and remorse a when I see a horse die on the track. But after reading this week of questions about the care given horses by certain Asmussen family members—well, at least Sunday at Nipper’s didn’t die in a kill pen. She went down doing the thing she was bred to do,the thing she was trained to do…and, we can only hope, the thing she loved to do.

R.I.P. Sunday at Nipper’s

Nice.

[nijinski]

Oh my , how sad . RIP

[Robert Goren]

This kind of thing is happening all to often in horse racing these days.

[Wagergirl]

So very sad. What I find saddening as well is that unless it's some big-name-all-over-the-national-news horse there is hardly ever even a write up in any of the pages that we here at work can view.

This athletes deserve to be recognized for there lives.

imo