Running out of his saddle.
HE DID IT! CHRO-MAGNAFIQUE!
DRC PHOTO
CANADIAN HORSES AND HUMANS PLAY BIG PARTS IN RAINBOW 6
Are you a homie? If you are, and the home horses come in, you might share in the Rainbow 6 mandatory payout today at Gulfstream Park.
There are lots of you out there who will tout and play the locals no matter what races they are in and today in the Pick 6 sequence, some Canadian-breds or owners, trained horses have strong chances to win.
The PICK 6 starts off with QUEEN’S PLATE CONTENDER SIR DUDLEY DIGGES, who has been getting close to winning his maiden for Ken and Sarah Ramsay for a while.
Named for the famous Virginia “adventurer”, SIR DUDLEY DIGGES was bred by Bernard and Karen McCormack and the dark bay colt by Gio Ponti – My Pal Lana by Kris S has two 2nds and two 3rds in his 5 races.
He was a bit unlucky to not have won his latest when surprised late. Would have liked to see blinkers off, but he is a big player at 8 to 5 in the 1st leg of the Pick 6!
Brian Lynch trainee HORNER MAN is a win factor and Roger Attfield/Charles Fipke Ky-bred Ekati Wildcat is a longshot from the rail.
race 8 – 2nd leg of the Pick 6 – John Mattine trainee, the ONtario bred RED FEVER, by Where’s the Ring, crushed in a 5 furlong turf dash last time. Might be a different horse in turf sprints but this is a very good field.
Race 9 -there is an Ontario bred in the field, Rose’s Dancer, who is in tough in this spot.
race 11 Mini stakes race on the grass has 2 tough faves in LIRA and HARMONIZE but watch out for Ontario bred SHAKE DOWN BABY, bought by American interests after a huge win in her grass debut. The Wando filly must avoid a bounce. Tucci Stables’ FIRST GIRL won her grass debut 17 days ago and is one of the speed runners while PULLED THE GOALIE needs just a bit more to win this for trainer Danny Vella.
Good luck if you play the RAINBOW6!
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ALCHEMY IN THE DESERT! CHROME TURNS TO GOLD!
PERRY MARTIN said about the $6 million winner’s share “money’s not important” but then he added he wants to win a Win and You’re In race so he can avoid paying the $100,000 supplemental fee – gadzooks
California Chrome set to fly out to CHICAGO and then he has an appointment at Rood & Riddle for a checkup to determine how he is and when he will return to the races;
Owner Perry Martin (co-owner) says they are interested in the $12 million race that Frank Stronach is trying to get together in january on the grass at GUlfstream..
CALIFORNIA CHROME’S SADDLE SLIPPED all the way back and he still romped – wonderful horse, wonderful story – the greatest horse in the world!
1:14 – DUBAI WORLD CUP! despite mad sending out of the gate and then a 3 to 4 wide trip all the way, CALIFORNIA CHROME crushes the World Cup – “I GOT SOME TEARS IN MY EYES” – Art Sherman, trainer
12:48 CALIFORNIA CHROME- is 1 to 2 currently 1 to 2
12:35 Owned by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid – POSTPONED is a 5yo hhorse by Dubawi (Ire) from the Dubai Destination mare Ever Riggs (GB).
A Dubai Millennium- Dubai Destination cross, trained by Roger Varian, ridden by A. Atzeni
Postponed
12:33 SHEEMA CLASSIC 1 1/2 mile turf – POSTPONED darts away to win from Duramente and Last Impact
12:27 – DURAMANTE gets the call here, has had his way with Real Steel, just got a shoe fix..he looks good, but so does Postponed won the King George last year at Ascot and the Prix Foy. He is 7 for 15 now, winnings for this race in the $4 million range so he has earned $5.7 million.
REAL STEEL was Group 1 placed and a decent horse in Japan, wins big in Dubai – DRC photo
REEL STEEL’S 3rd dam is MIESQUE!
2nd dam MONEVASSIA, won $10,000 on the track and by Mr. Prospector.
Monevassia sold for $1,750,000 at Keeneland in foal to A.P. Indy.
No record of her having an A.P. Indy in ’99 but has 13 named foals including champion filly RUMPLESTILTSKIN. Only a few other minor winners other than that good one.
Real Steel’s dam LOVES ONLY ME never raced, has produced multiple winner Langley.
11:53 – DUBAI TURF, 1 1/8 miles on the grass..big fave TRYSTER is dull and REEL STEEL (JPN) has won, holding off the mare Euro Charlene.
Jockey Ryan Moore rode the 4yo colt by Deep Impact (Jpn) is out of the STORM CAT mare Loves Only Me. The colt had 2 wins coming in from 8 races, last one more than a year ago. Owned by Sunday racing and trained by Yoshito Yahagi.
2nd fastest time at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Meydan “he’s just better than these” said the wonderfully talkative Ryan Moore
10:52 appears as if HPI has come back, 45 mins to Dubai Turf
10:49 – GOLDEN SHAEEN WINNER MUARRAB is a 7-year-old gelding by Oasis Dream out of the Wolfhound mare License to Thrill (GB), he was an English bred who now has 13 wins in 24 starts. Paul Hanagan rode.
10:48 – WOW what a race as MUARRAB and XY JET battled stride for stride through the last3/16 of a mile with Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum’s MUARRAB edging up to win. X Y JET was so game after battling all the way from the start
0:45 going in the gate for the Shaheen
10:41 American speedball XY JET is no Lasix but he runs Beyer Figures in 105-108 range
10:37 – The GOLDEN SHAHEEN is coming up in 8 minutes – 6 furlongs on dirt, meanwhile, trouble afoot for many watching and wagering on HPI.com – which has seemingly crashed
10:15 a.m. AL QUOZ SPRINT, BUFFERING hold off everyone in the 5 furlong turf dash and he’s 9 years old! He’s an Aussie gelding who now has 20 wins in 52 races.
The American filly LADY SHIPMAN was 4th and chased hard at an underlaid 9 to 5
LANI wins! 100 points for the Derby and he’s comin!
Yutakata Take said “my horse lazy – I am tired” Of course the fell on his head at the start.
Lots of bandages on this grey colt.
9:57 – delving into the Tapit colt LANI’S breeding, the Sunday Silence mare Heavenly Romance is out of First Act, by Sadler’s Wells. First Act is out of too producer Arkadina, by Ribotr.
Pedigree notes for the Tapit colt, LANI – from “Sports Hochi” racing news:
Heavenly Romance is a G1 winning daughter of Sunday Silence. She won the 2005 Emperor’s Cup Fall against a stellar field of older males under Mikio Matsunaga, a feat thatonly the best race mares like Vodka and Air Groove have accomplished. After having her first three foals in Japan, she was sent to the United States by her owner, North Hills, to be bred to America’s best stallions. She has been covered by Smart Strike, Tapit, and Distorted Humor so far.
All three of her American-born foals have been stabled with trainer Mikio Matsunaga. Her first US born was by Japanese stallion Jungle Pocket. The 6-year-old, Awardee has won six of his 28 starts including the G3 Sirius Stakes last fall. Her second US-born and the first US-bred foal, Amour Briller is by Smart Strike and has won seven of her 18 career starts including three NAR cross over group races, two JPN2s and a JPN3. Earlier this year she ran third in the JPN1 Kawasaki Kinen finishing 4 1/4 lengths behind Dubai World Cup bound Hokko Tarumae.
9;40 LANI, a Kentucky bred 3yo colt by Tapit from the Sunday Silence mare Heavenly Romance, wins after bad stumble at start over troubled Polar River.
LANI, Japanese owned and raced, was 2 for 5 coming in is confirmed for the KENTUCKY DERBY now – as per son of owner Ms Yoko Maeda.
Tough race for POLAR RIVER but she will learn a lot – jostled a bit early by the rough colts, she tracked on the rail, tried to split horses into the straight but had no room, took back and then rallied mildly- “it’s shame, bit gutted for her, she’s still maturing” said trainer Doug Watson
9:33 – As POLAR RIVER gets set to try the boys in the UAE DERBY, it has been said that she will not be going to the Kentucky Oaks..let’s see what she does here first
9:32 – Frank Conversation (Quality Road) and Lani (Tapit) are the Triple Crown nominees in the UAE Derby. This race is 1 3/16 miles on dirt for $2 million.
9:28 – POLAR RIVER, an April Ocala 3yo filly by Congrats out of the Empire Maker mare BAYOU TORTUGA is just a slight, medium sized filly but she is 4 for 4 in her career at Medan for trainer Doug Watson. She is 4 to 5 against the boys in the UAE DERBY
9:22 the UAE DERBY for 3yos is next and Canadian owned FRANK CONVERSATION is testing the waters here on a 2 race win streak. He won the California Derby and and the El Camino Real Derby on Tapeta at Golden Gate and his maiden win cameon grass. He has come a long way to try dirt for J. Paul Reddam and Doug O’Neill, maybe they forgot Meydan went back to dirt from Tampeta?
Vazirabad (FR) – Dubai Gold Cup (Neville Hopwood)
ONE MAN BAND, a 5-year-old horse by PIVOTAL-GB – won the Godolphin Mile – Grade 2 – DRC photo
RECAP – the GODOLPHIN MILE – GRADE 2 kicked off the Thoroughbred races at 8:20 this morning.
The 1 mile event for 3 and up was a 1-2-3 sweep for trainer Doug Watson. ONE MAN BAND led the parade, a 5yo horse by Pivotal (GB) out of a Cape Cross (GB) mare Musicanna (GB). This guy is now 8 for 15 in his career , 13 of those races at Meydan for Sh Saeed bin Mohammed Al Maktoum.
Godolphin/Kiaran McLaughlin colt MARKING, the fave, was a bit slow early, rushed to stalk and faded to 4th. Jockey Doyle said of the Bernardini colt..”he’s got a lot of ability, but he’s a monkey”
8:59 – VAZIRABAD )FR) reared up the start of the $1,000,000 Dubai Gold Cup but was allowed to settle “a country mile” behind the leaders by jockey Christophe Soumillon. He began his move a quarter-mile from home and wore down Big Orange to win by a long neck in a super effort. The son of MANDURO (Monsun), a German stallion, is out of the Irish mare Visorama by Linamix. The Aga Khan bred the grey in France and Alain de Royer Dupre trains.
8:52 – heavily favoured in the 2 mile Gold Cup is VAZIRABAD, a grey French gelding who is 5 for 7 in his career for the Aga Khan
8:50 a.m. – A FEW TECHNICAL ISSUES from icy Brampton but here we go.. minutes from the $1,000,000 DUBAI GOLD CUP, 2 MILE on the turf –
