LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!
CALIFORNIA CHROME says BRING IT ON! The Classic is at 8;30 tonight. CINDY PIERSON DULAY PHOTO
OH BABY – UNTAPABLE is UNBELIEVABLE
Jockey Napravnik takes over winner’s circle with retirement/baby announcement
UNTAPABLE, just 3-years-old, beat her elders in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff after a wide trip. Winchell Stables’ filly was stunning on Day 1 of the Breeders’ Cup. CINDY PIERSON DULAY PHOTO
WINNING BEYER SPEED FIGURES FROM 4 BREEDERS’ CUP RACES –
GOLDENCENTS – 107
UNTAPABLE – 103
LADY ELI – 96
HOOTENNANY – 81
DISTAFF- Well, the performance by the 3yo filly monster UNTAPABLE was spectacular.
This 3yo filly by Tapit out of Fun House, by Prized gave away a lot of ground in the $2 million event, but beat older horses with flair under Rosie Napravnik. Owned and bred by Winchell Farms, which had been 2nd earlier in he day in the Dirt Mile.
Untapable, truly a champion. DON’T TELL SOPHIA was 2nd in a huge, rallying effort and she cost just $1,000.
The victory by the sleek, dark bay gal was a bit upstaged in the winner’s circle, however.
With trainer Steve Asmussen holding the winner’s trophy, Napravnik deferred all questions to announce to her mother that her “retirement stars Sunday and [husband] Joe and I are starting a family”. Kudos to interviewer Laffit Pincay who maintained
JUVENILE TURF – The speedy LUCK OF A KITTEN went fast on the lead and was game to the end but it was HOOTENANNY who ran him down under Frankie Dettori.
It was the first Breeders’ Cup win for trainer Wesley Ward, who stayed in Florida to watch his son’s ball game.
HOOTENANNY is by Quality Road out of a Hennessy mare.
Ontario bred CONQUEST TYPHOON, by Stormy Atlantic out of Swanky Bubbles, by Ascot Knight was a gallant 4th, just inches from 3rd place after he made a wide charge into the stretch under Patrick Husbands. He was beaten 2 1/4 lengths and he posted a 76 Beyer Figure.
The Mark Casse trainee was bred by Josham Farms and is out of a mare whose own dam, Bye the Victory, is from the Knob HIll Farms breeding – Cool Victor out Bye the Bye, And Bye the Bye is from the breeding of Conn Smythe, out of Near Bye Lady by Bye and Near.
JUVENILE FILLIES TURF – Scintillating rail run by unbeaten LADY ELI who blew away the field for Sheep Pond Stables (Jay Hanley) and trainer Chad Brown, who had 4 in the race. This filly is by Divine Park, a Brereton Jones stallion by Chester House, and out of Scare Coeur, by the Canadian-bred stallion Saint Ballado.
Great ride by Irad Oriz Jr., his first Breeders’ Cup win.
The winner was a $160,000 April 2yo sale purchase at Keeneland. Lady Eli paid just $6.80.
Canadian bred CONQUEST HARLANATE, by Harlan’s Holiday, bred by Bill Graham and owned by Conquest Stables, had a mid-pack trip and was 5 wide around the last turn before fading to 11th. Interestingly, Conquest Harlanate ran a best career Beyer Figure with a 78 as the race was very fast.
The filly had won the Mazarine and the Natalma and still may be the leader for the champion 2yo filly honours in Canada.
How about the speed run by GOLDENCENTS to win his 2nd straight Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile? From a popular Manitoba-based female family – his 2nd dam was Manitoba stakes winner BODY WORKS, a daughter of top canadian/Ontario sire Bold Ruckus. Phil Kives raced Body Works and Goldencents’ dam, Golden Works.
Golden Workds, by Banker’s Gold has a 2012 colt by Will He Shine, bred in Illinois.
Going further back in the breeding, Body Works’ dam is Kinto, by Kinsman Hope, who stood in Ontario for years. Kinto, a Canadian-bred, is out of Where To, by Canadian-bred by Hidden Treasure.
Goldencents was pushed hard all the way through crazy fractions (22 flat, 44 1/5) by Vicars In Trouble, who is from the Canadian female family of Jabot, made popular by Beclawat Stable. Vicar stopped by the 1/4 pole and TAPITURE took up the chase but could not get past a brave Goldencents.
TODAY – 9 RACES OF BREEDERS’ CUP FUN!
GRAND ARCH is owned by Alberta’s Jim and Susan HIll, trained by Brian Lynch. Top grass horse at Woodbine needs a covered up and perfect trip in the Mile. CINDY PIERSON DULAY PHOTO
SOMETHING EXTRA deserves a chance in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint – he has been one of Canada’s top turf sprinters for a couple of years for John Menary and Gail Cox (riding at Santa Anita in above photo) CINDY PIERSON DULAY PHOTO
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CASPAR NETSCHER – England to Woodbine to Amsterdam to California
DAILY RACING FORMA STORY By Steve Andersen
ARCADIA, Calif. – Caspar Netscher has been on the go all through October – to racetracks in three countries and over the Atlantic twice.
After finishing fifth in the Group 3 Bengough Stakes at Ascot on Oct. 4, Caspar Netscher traveled to Woodbine, where he won his first stakes since April 2012 in the Grade 2 Nearctic Stakes. To satisfy international quarantine requirements, the 5-year-old horse was sent to Holland in the days after the Nearctic Stakes before traveling back to North America for Saturday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.
Through it all, Caspar Netscher has thrived.
“We took a blood [sample] in Amsterdam, and the trip has gone very well,” trainer David Simcock said. “He’s been very fresh and bright. He came out of Woodbine very well.”
READ MORE and other BREEDERS’ CUP NEWS ITEMS – http://www.breederscup.com/races/news?page=1
FROM BREEDERS’CUP.COM – BETTORS – HAVE A READ, PLAY THE PICK 4
The Horizontal Horseplayer
“Since 2009, the average Pick 4 return has been $28,490! Take away that Pick 4 in 2011 ending in the Classic that paid over $187k and the Pick 4 average is still over $16,000. Even harder to believe is that in every Pick 4 listed above, there was at least one favorite winner (with the exception of the $187k return).”
By Dan Zucker, @dannyzuck
I think I first heard the word parlay when I was eight years old. My grandmother said it to one of her friends in her afternoon at the horsey-zoo with her grandson. Whether referring to sports betting or horse race wagering, parlay simply means take the winnings from a bet and put it all on another bet.
In sports, hitting a two team parlay returns about 5:2 and a three team parlay closer to 6:1. Find me a sports bettor that has never made a parlay bet and I’ll show you a horse player that has.
So why don’t a lot of Breeders’ Cup players bet parlays? For that answer let’s look at the total mutuel pool handle for the multi-race wagers from the Breeders’ Cup over the last five years:
http://www.breederscup.com/article/horizontal-horseplayer
WOODBINE IN THE FALL – PHOTO BY ALEX LECHE NARVAEZ
