Sword Dancer

[Afleet]

1 1/2 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up | G1 STAKES | PURSE: $1,000,000

P# PP Horse Virtual
Stable A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L

Glorious Empire (IRE) 7/G L J R Leparoux 120 J L Lawrence, II 10/1

Spring Quality (PA) 6/G L E S Prado 124 H G Motion 4/1

Funtastic (KY) 4/C L J L Ortiz 124 C C Brown 9/2

Hi Happy (ARG) 6/H L J R Velazquez 124 T A Pletcher 6/1

Highland Sky (KY) 5/G L M Franco 116 B Tagg 12/1

Bigger Picture (KY) 7/G L I Ortiz, Jr. 122 M J Maker 8/1

Channel Maker (ON) 4/G L J Rosario 120 W I Mott 5/1

Seahenge (KY) 3/C L W Lordan 112 A P O'Brien 30/1

Revved Up (KY) 5/H L J Alvarado 116 J R Abreu 15/1

Sadler's Joy (KY) 5/H L J Castellano 122 T Albertrani 7/2

Tough race which seems wide open. I suck on turf so was hoping for some help .
Defending champ Sadlers Joy 7-3-1-0 at the distance w/a 105 beyer at the distance. Fires every time.
Revved Up 3-2-0-0 record on Saratoga grass. Has never been the distance. 99 Beyer top in last race
Seahenge getting a lot of weight if jock makes weight. Obrien top notch conditioner
Channel Maker dead heat winner of the Grade 2 Bowling Green w/ Glorious Empire. Race was run is a bog and don't think its applicable to the Sword Dancers conditions
Bigger Picture 7-2-1-2 record at the distance w/a high beyer of 104-fits.
Highland Sky exits aforementioned Bowling Green bog race; never been 1 1/2 but think he figures.
Hi Happy Bowling Green also ran. Grade 1 winner at todays dstance w/106 Beyer. Toss last or falling out of form? Why take Saez off horse? Has beaten Sadlers joy twice.
Funtastic Chad Brown trains so have to take seriously, grade 1 winner @ 1 3/8 in the United Nations beating Bigger Picture.
Spring Quality-fires every time was getting 6 lbs from Sadler last race, now even weight-the now horse?
Glorious Empire dead heat winner of the Bowling Green. Leparoux ice cold-pass.

Taking Sadlers Joy tough to have a lot of faith in drop dead closers, but think its his turn.

[Lemon Drop Husker]

Tough race. Good field with a bunch of horses that trade a lot of shots against one another.


I might just end up on the outsider in Revved Up at what I think will be north of 20/1 against these.



Channel Maker is interesting to me as well as a 4YO. Still has some room to improve. The 3 for 18 lifetime and no back-to-back wins, much less graded stakes back-to-back wins, is very troubling though.



Seems to be quite a bit of speed in here for a 12 panel turf race. But I'm sure the connections can see that as well for a race like this on turf. Maybe that could make a horse like Bigger Picture more playable, who does like 12 furlongs.



Will need to look at this one quite a bit longer.

[Afleet]

early publichandicapper odds

total Number of Picks On This Race: 661

Program # Picks Horse PH Odds
1. 47 Glorious Empire 11 - 1
2. 75 Spring Quality 6 - 1
3. 59 Funtastic 8 - 1
4. 119 Hi Happy 7 - 2
5. 24 Highland Sky 22 - 1
6. 58 Bigger Picture 8 - 1
7. 87 Channel Maker 5 - 1
8. 16 Seahenge 34 - 1
9. 22 Revved Up 24 - 1
10. 154 Sadler's Joy 5 - 2

[Afleet]

Hi Happy possible underlay per publichandicapper-still like him. Going w/Sadlers Joy, Hi Happy, Highland Sky, and Spring Quality and throw the speed on the bottom of the Tri

Total Number of Picks On This Race: 1172

Program # Picks Horse PH Odds
1. 91 Glorious Empire 9 - 1
2. 129 Spring Quality 6 - 1
3. 110 Funtastic 8 - 1
4. 210 Hi Happy 7 - 2
5. 51 Highland Sky 18 - 1
6. 103 Bigger Picture 8 - 1
7. 139 Channel Maker 6 - 1
8. 35 Seahenge 27 - 1
9. 33 Revved Up 29 - 1
10. 271 Sadler's Joy 5 - 2

[Tom]

Merry-go-round race - nothing in it ever made a serious move.
The whole field sucked bad.

The only horse who made a serious moves was the who I bet - and he folded up so fast I thought he was a lawn chair.

How do these allegedly great NY riders look so pathetic and never make a run?

Better yet, why do they card these pathetic marathon races?
Race came down to a furlong or so.

[Secondbest]

Outsmarted by Julien Leparoux.

[Suff]

Originally Posted by Secondbest

Outsmarted by Julien Leparoux.

way to rub it in.

[Secondbest]

Originally Posted by Fuss

way to rub it in.

Got me too

[Afleet]

got me also-I suck on turf. How many days until Oaklawn opens?