Nyquist = named after a hockey player. Photo by Cindy Pierson Dulay
NYQUIST RETURNS TODAY!
Holiday racing around the US
Champion 2-year-old and undefeated Kentucky Derby contender NYQUIST makes his 3-year-old debut today at Santa Anita.
180,000
230,000
400,000
Those are the reported sale prices for NYQUIST as he went through 3 auctions from Nov. 2013 to March 2015. The plain bay son of UNCLE MO, who is off to a rousing start at stud, is 4-5 to get things rolling today in the 7 furlong San Vicenta, about as easy a spot as Tepin had on the weekend in her return.
KENTUCKY.COM FEATURE – ALICIA WINCZE HUGHES
The very essence of Thoroughbred racing is all about moving forward.
The sport allows for little time to dwell, whether crushing pitfalls or game-changing highs. There is no offseason, no end to the cycle of horseflesh demanding individual attention. The question of ‘What’s next?’ is often fired off before a cleansing breath can be drawn.
Still, there are those rare times when an entity ignites the industry and then lingers like dense smoke. The crop of Thoroughbreds born in 2013 are blissfully unaware they are in such a fallout, that the name of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has and will continue to be invoked in the run-up to and throughout this year’s American classics.
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/sports/horses/alicia-wincze-hughes-blog/article60286786.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.kentucky.com/sports/horses/alicia-wincze-hughes-blog/article60286786.html
Monday, Santa Anita Park, post time: 5:30 p.m. EST
SAN VICENTE S.-GII, $200,000, 3yo, 7f
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML
1 Nyquist K Uncle Mo Gutierrez O’Neill 4-5
2 Electrifying K Dunkirk Baze Baffert 20-1
3 El Charro Put It Back Talamo Jacobson 8-1
4 Denman’s Call Northern Afleet Prat O’Neill 6-1
5 Exaggerator K Curlin Desormeaux Desormeaux 5-2
6 Sheikh of Sheikhs K Discreetly Mine Bejarano Ward 5-1
Owners: 1-Reddam Racing, LLC, 2-Kaleem Shah, Inc., 3-Head of Plains
Partners LLC or Jacobson, 4-Gilman Racing or Westside Rentals.com or W. C.
Racing, Inc., 5-Big Chief Racing, LLC, Rocker O Ranch, LLC or Desormeaux,
6-Abdullah Saeed Almaddah. Breeders: 1-Summerhill Farm, 2-J. S.
McDonald, 3-Cherie M. Abner & Michael A. Bossio, 4-W C Racing, Milt
Gilman & Mark Verge, 5-Joseph B. Murphy, 6-Manuel Andrade
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE POT OF GOLD
under the Rainbow 6
Gulfstream’s Monday program is comprised entirely of 12 starter stakes worth a total of $680,000 in purses. First race post time is 12:35 p.m.
There are plenty of Canadian in action on the card which is similar to a “claiming crown” type of day.
A total of $395,691 was wagered Sunday into the Rainbow 6, which saw the carryover grow to $1,046,372.44 without a single unique winner of the popular multi-race wager for the 24th consecutive racing program.
There were multiple tickets sold with all six winners on Sunday, each worth $1,763.46.
The largest Rainbow 6 payout of the current Championship Meet was $262,634.84 on Jan. 7. It was last solved on Jan. 13 for $76,799.38.
The carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
CANADIANS ELSEWHERE
BE MIND PHIL, an Ontario bred by Philanthropist, was a winner at 17-1 at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday for owner and trainer Margaret Denney. The 6-year-old mare won by a neck with a late rally and won the $12,500 claiming race over another Woodbine gal, Awfully Sinful, trained by Mike Wright. The Canadian exactor paid $159.00
SCOTT FAIRLIE is 21 wins away from 1,000 career victories as a trainer. He has won 2 of 6 races in 2016.
