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Players Edge Newsletter – March 12, 2010

March 11th, 2010

Newsletter Cartoon 031210Santa Margarita Handicap

Fair Grounds New Orleans Ladies

Rebel Stakes

Tampa Bay Downs

Around the Track

Hopeful Pacing Series

Thoroughbred Racing Action

Harness Stakes Action

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Santa Margarita Handicap
Zenyatta Getting Ready for the Show

Saturday’s Grade I $250,000 Santa Margarita Handicap will have horse racing’s equivalent of Brett Favre returning to the NFL, as six year-old Zenyatta returns to racing to face eight rivals and takes aim to eventually face HOY Rachel Alexandra in the $5 million Apple Blossom Invitational in April at Oaklawn Park.

The champion older female of 2008 and 2009, Zenyatta launches her 2010 campaign in Saturday’s Santa Margarita, her first start in more than four months.

The field for the Santa Margarita has an immense task by taking on Zenyatta, the undefeated two-time champion who is making her first start since a win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last November over the same track.

One horse looking to steal the race is Striking Dancer, a winner at 13-1, in the Grade II La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita on February 14th. Striking Dancer’s connections are going to make Zenyatta, and her closing running style, chase Striking Distance down.

The second- and third-place finishers from the La Canada race, Gripsholm Castle and Floating Heart, are also part of a field of eight in the Santa Margarita.

Zenyatta carries top weight of 127 pounds, spotting her rivals from 12 to 19 pounds. Striking Dancer is second on the list of weights, at 115 pounds, and will be ridden by Alex Solis.

The Santa Margarita will be Santa Anita’s seventh race with a probable post time of 3:40 p.m. PST.

Fair Grounds New Orleans Ladies
Rachel Alexandra Getting Ready for the Show Part 2

This Saturday, Rachel Alexandra will face a field of five fillies and mare in the $200,000 1 1/16-mile New Orleans Ladies and another step towards her anticipated meeting with Zenyatta in the Apple Blossom Invitational on April 9th at Oaklawn. Zenyatta also runs Saturday, in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita at Santa Anita.

Rachel Alexandra is set to make her first start since the September 5th Woodward Stakes on Saturday in the New Orleans Ladies. As she heads to the track, 189 days will have passed since the Woodward

Rachel Alexandra drew just outside the apparent speed of the race, Fighter Wing, and just inside Zardana, who is a John Shirreffs-trained stablemate of Zenyatta. Leaving from post 4 is Unforgotten, trained by Dallas Stewart. Unforgotten is a closer who finished seventh in the Sunshine Millions Distaff at Gulfstream on January 30th and second at Fair Grounds in the DRF Distaff on December 19th.

Clear Sailing, trained by Glenn Delahoussaye, drew post 5. Clear Sailing has improved in each of her four races and brings a three-race win streak and an undefeated record at Fair Grounds into the race. She’ll be looking for the kind of closing trip that saw her get up by a neck in the Pelleteri at Fair Grounds last month.

Rebel Stakes
Lookin At Lucky Looks to Get Lucky

Hot Springs Oaklawn Park has the 2009 two-year old champion Lookin At Lucky poised to take the next step to the Kentucky Derby this Saturday when he makes his first start of the year in the Grade II, $300,000 Rebel Stakes.

Lookin At Lucky, who is based in Southern California, was one of two Grade 1 winners who entered the 2010 edition of the Rebel Stakes. Noble’s Promise, winner of last fall’s Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland, arrived from South Florida.

They will be part of a projected seven- to eight-horse field for the Rebel, a 1 1/16-mile race that serves as the final local prep for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 10.

Lookin At Lucky is coming off a 5-for-6 season in which he won a trio of Grade 1 races – the Del Mar Futurity, the Norfolk, and the CashCall Futurity. His lone loss came in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Regular rider Garrett Gomez has the mount for the Rebel. Bob Baffert, who trains Lookin At Lucky made a decision to add blinkers after Lookin At Lucky worked in the equipment. Lookin At Lucky will wear French-cup blinkers, which is a style of blinkers that have a modest amount of closure.

Noble’s Promise has raced exclusively on synthetic and turf surfaces to this point in his career, but there are reasons to believe that the Grade I winner might be an even better horse on dirt. He has won 3 of 6 starts, taking a maiden special weight on turf last fall before winning the $100,000 Juvenile at Presque Isle Downs and the Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland. Noble’s Promise, who in his last start was second by three-quarters of a length in the CashCall, will be ridden by Robby Albarado.

Others expected for the race include Grade 1 winner Dublin, to be ridden by Corey Nakatani; Cardiff Giant, the third-place finisher in the Southwest under regular rider Christian Santiago Reyes; Uh Oh Bango, the runner-up in the Grade III, $750,000 Delta Jackpot who will team with Glenn Corbett; and Pleasant Storm, the runner-up in the $100,000 Smarty Jones who is to be ridden by Jon Court. Trainer Joe Petalino said Pleasant Storm was to ship from Louisiana Downs to Oaklawn on Wednesday.

Tampa Bay Downs
Tampa Bay Derby

This Saturday the Grade III Tampa Bay Derby highlights Tampa Bay Downs’s traditional Festival Day program which includes the Grade III Tampa Derby, the Grade III $175,000 Florida Oaks.

The Tampa Bay Derby has listed Super Saver, in post six, as the 2-1 morning line favorite in the field of seven in the $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby. The 1 1/16 mile Derby race looks to pit Super Saver and Odysseus. Super Saver’s connection WinStar Farm had luck earlier this winter when they won the Sam F. Davis Stakes with Derby prospect Rule.

Super Saver races back after posting a wire-to-wire, five-length victory over William’s Kitten in Churchill Downs’s Kentucky Jockey Club. Ramon Dominguez, who guided Super Saver to his maiden win last fall at Belmont Park, will be back aboard.

Odysseus, will break outside the favorite from post 7. Odysseus is perfect in two starts at 3, including an easy 15-length win in an entry-level allowance race at Tampa in February.

Schoolyard Dreams and Uptowncharlybrown, second and third behind Rule in the Sam Davis, will return for the Tampa Bay Derby. They’ll be joined by Tuvia’s Force, Gleam of Hope, and Slammy Boy.

The full field for the Tampa Bay Derby is below:

P#

PP

Horse

A/S

Jockey

Wgt

Trainer

M/L

1 1 Uptowncharlybrown (KY) 3/C D Centeno 116 A S Seewald

5/2

2 2 Tuvia’s Force (KY) 3/C J Lezcano 116 N P Zito

12/1

3 3 Gleam of Hope (KY) 3/C W Martinez 122 A L Reinstedler

15/1

4 4 Slammy Boy (KY) 3/C V Lebron 116 A L Reinstedler

20/1

5 5 Schoolyard Dreams (KY) 3/C J Rose 116 D S Ryan

3/1

6 6 Super Saver (KY) 3/C R A Dominguez 122 T A Pletcher

2/1

7 7 Odysseus (KY) 3/C R Maragh 116 T Albertrani

7/2

Around the Track
Info for the Race Handicapper

Fair Grounds

Purses for three top-notch races at the Fair Grounds have been reduced by $100,000 each, Fair Grounds announced on Monday. The Fair Ground Oaks, the Mervin Muniz, and the New Orleans Handicap, all Grade 2 races are now are worth $300,000.

The Muniz and the New Orleans Handicap now have suffered two purse cuts this winter, having been offered as $500,000 races at the start of this meet. In late January, those two stakes were trimmed by $100,000 as part of a broader-based round of purse cuts that included a reduction in overnight purses.

Sam Houston Race Park

Sam Houston Race Park in Houston continues with its  Monday programs to its lineup for the remainder of March, and each will have a daytime post of 1:20 p.m. Central. The remaining programs are March 15, 22, and 29. The track races through April 3.

Pinnacle Race Course

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has cut schedule horse racing dates by more than half, the state agency announced.

Racing dates in Michigan were cut last year by the Michigan Office of Racing Commissioner, but most of them were restored after negotiations with the racing industry. It remains to be seen if that will occur again in 2010.

Pinnacle Race Course lost 34 days, meaning it will race 31 days from June 4-Aug. 13, with racing Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays. The meet traditionally runs through early fall.

Dates at three harness tracks were similarly reduced. In all, the MGCD said there will be 112 racing dates through Sept. 30, down from the 261 approved dates.

Hollywood Park

Hollywood Park has made severe cuts to its stakes schedule for the upcoming spring-summer meeting from April 21 to July 18, including reducing the purses of five Grade 1 races.

The richest race of the meeting will be the Grade 1, $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 10, a race worth $750,000 last year. The other six Grade 1 races will be worth $250,000. The American Oaks was cut from $700,000, while the Charles Whittingham Handicap, Triple Bend Handicap, and Vanity Handicap have been cut from $300,000.

The track is offering 45 stakes worth $5.8 million, down from 49 races worth $8 million in 2009.

Six stakes run in 2009 will not be offered this year – the Ack Ack Handicap, Gallant Man Stakes, Cinema Handicap, Flawlessly Stakes, Khaled Stakes, and Round Table Handicap.

Two races have been restored – the Will Rogers Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf and the Grade 3 Jim Murray Handicap over 1 1/2 miles on turf. The Will Rogers serves as a replacement for the Cinema, which was run for 3-year-olds over 1 1/8 miles on turf. Until 2008, both races were offered on the stakes schedule.

Rockingham Park

Rockingham Park in New Hampshire will not hold a live harness racing meet this year, the track announced on Wednesday, citing the state legislature’s decision last year to rescind funding for the New Hampshire Racing and Charitable Gaming Commission.

Last year, Rockingham Park held a 50-day live harness meet. The track has not held a Thoroughbred meet since 2002, although the track did hold three live Thoroughbred races in 2004 on the last day of its harness meet.

Hopeful Pacing Series
Yonkers Raceway Stakes Series Finals

This Friday and Saturday, Yonkers Raceway will showcase their first pair of 2010 events wrap up this weekend, with the finals of the Hopeful Pacing Series set for Friday and Saturday nights.

The Ladies division will heat up the track on Friday with the $46,900, 10th race finale for 3-year-old fillies. Leading the way is Rev Me Up, in post three, is the early choice. Rev Me Up won her lone series start in 1:57.4, then went back across the river for a second-place effort in the $61,000 final of the Tender Loving Care.

Dragon Princess will start from post two with Cat Manzi driving, also won her only series try, going first-up last week in 1:57 flat. Dragon Princess is 6-for-9 in her career, has hit the board in all but one of her lifetime efforts.

The field, with declared drivers and morning line odds: 1-Isthmus Of Panama (Ray Schnittker, 10-1); 2-Dragon Princess (Manzi, 3-1); 3-Rev Me Up (Bartlett, 7-5); 4-O Lucky Me (Jeff Gregory, 8-1); 5-Brightest Star (Tyler Buter, 8-1); 6-SS Admiral (Jim Meittinis, 12-1); 7-Briefly (Steve Smith, 10-1); and 8-Angelino (Jordan Stratton, 15-1).

On Saturday night, the boys hit the oval with the $49,700 final of the Hopeful for colts and geldings. The 10th race feature has Pan Grad accorded the role of morning line favorite with his win, a second and a third in preliminary competition.

Fox Valley Valkari, Joey The Czar and Vintage Fenom all enter after sharp series victories a week ago.

That field, with declared drivers and morning line odds: 1-Fox Valley Valkari (Gregory, 5-1); 2-Joey The Czar (Meittinis, 5-1); 3-Vintage Fenom (Sheehan, 6-1); 4-Pan Grad (Bartlett, 3-1); 5-Big Mystery (Greg Grismore, 10-1); 6-No Monkeys Allowed (Driver TBA, 8-1); 7-Hank’s Kid (Mike Forte, 12-1); and 8-Raging Cam (Stephane Bouchard, 12-1).

Yonkers’ regular five-night-per-week schedule (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday) remains in effect. First post for all racing programs is 7:10 p.m.

Please note that the Raceway now offers five superfectas nightly (races three, five, seven, 10 and 12), provided there are a sufficient number of wagering interests in each scheduled superfecta race.

Thoroughbred Racing Action
Weekend Stakes Action

Super Horse Zenyatta hits the track for the first time this year in the  Watch and wager on these stakes races…all on BetAmerica.com.

Saturday – March 13

  • Fair Grounds: New Orleans Ladies, $200,000, 4&up, f/m, 8.5f.
  • Gulfstream Park: Gulfstream Park Handicap G2, $300,000, 4&up, 8f.
  • Gulfstream Park: Ocala Stakes, $75,000, 4&up, f/m, 8f.
  • Laurel Park: Conniver Stakes, $70,000, 3&up, f/m, Maryland-bred, 7f.
  • Oaklawn Park: Rebel Stakes G-2, $300,000, 3yo, 8.5f.
  • Oaklawn Park: Honeybee Stakes G-3, $125,000, 3yo f, 8.5f.
  • Santa Anita: Santa Margarita Handicap – G1, $250,000, 4&up, f/m, 9f.
  • Santa Anita: San Felipe Stakes G2, $150,000, 3yo, 8.5f.
  • Sunland Park: Bill Thomas Memorial Handicap, $50,000, 3&up, 6.5f.
  • Tampa Bay Downs: Tampa Bay Derby G-3, $300,000, 3yo, 8.5f.
  • Tampa Bay Downs: Florida Oaks G-3, $150,000, 3yo f, 8.5f.
  • Tampa Bay Downs: Hillsborough Stakes G3, $150,000, 4&up, f/m, 9f (turf).
  • Tampa Bay Downs: Turf Dash, $50,000, 3&up, 5f (turf).
  • Turf Paradise: Desert Sky Handicap, $50,000, 3&up, f/m, 8f (turf).
  • Turf Paradise: Scottsdale Handicap, $50,000, 3yo f, 8f (turf).
  • Turf Paradise: Tempe Handicap, $50,000, 3yo, 8f (turf).
  • Turfway Park: Tejano Run Stakes, $50,000, 4&up, 9f.

Sunday – March 14

  • Gulfstream Park: Inside Information Stakes – G2, $150,000, 4&up, f/m, 7f.
  • Gulfstream Park: Sunshine State Stakes, $75,000, 4&up, 7f.

Monday – March 15

  • Turf Paradise: Coyote Handicap, $50,000, 3&up, 6.5f.

Wednesday – March 17

  • Portland Meadows: Governor’s Speed H, $18,000, 3&up, 6f.
  • Portland Meadows: Williamette River Stakes, $18,000a, 3yo, 8f.

Harness Stakes Action
This Weekend’s Stakes Action

BetAmerica.com still has great harness action from the East Coast to the West Coast, from Canada and the U.S. Watch and Wager on these Harness stakes races this week:

Friday – March 12

  • Meadowlands: Overbid, $50,000, FFA Mare, Pace
  • Yonkers: Hopeful, $40,000, 3yo, Filly, Pace

Saturday – March 13

  • Meadowlands: Four Leaf Clover, $25,000, 5 & Under, Pace
  • Yonkers: Hopeful, $40,000, 3yo, C&G, Pace
  • Yonkers: Hopeful, $20,000, 3yo, C&G, Pace

Sunday – March 14

  • Meadowlands: Horse & Groom, $20,000, Open, Trot

Players Edge Newsletter – March 5, 2010

March 4th, 2010

Newsletter Cartoon 030510Santa Anita Gets Wet

The Big Cap at Santa Anita

Around the Track

Derby Future Book – Pool 2

Thoroughbred Racing Action

Harness Stakes Action

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Santa Anita Gets Wet
Rain, Rain, Go Away

This Saturday Santa Anita will host four Graded Stakes races including the Santa Anita Handicap, however, just like last weekend when heavy rain for the track to close, this weekend of racing looks to be a wet affair…again. A 70% chance of rain is forecast for Saturday and a 60% chance of showers for Sunday.

With its Pro-Ride synthetic track surface, Santa Anita has lost five days this meet since its December 26th start. Track officials battle drainage issues and even have contemplated switching the tracks surface back to its original dirt. While in its premier part of its meet, Santa Anita cannot weather any additional lost days due t rain. Last weekend’s closure moved the Grade III Sham Stakes for three year-olds to this Saturday. Horsemen initially wanted the Sham to be run this past Wednesday; track management re-scheduled it for Saturday. Now the Sham is in peril of being rained out again.

Four other stakes races are scheduled for this Saturday; the Santa Anita Handicap, The Santa Anita Oaks and the Frank Kilroe Mile Handicap, which is scheduled for the turf.

The Big Cap at Santa Anita
A Full Field of Fun

This Saturday’s entrants for the Grade I $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap will have not just the possibility of wet weather but a full field of evenly matched rivals. This should make handicapping such a race fun.

Each horse looks good on paper, some are switching from turf to synthetic for the first time, and some just look funny running (sorry St. Trinians)

The 1 ¼ mile race will be run on the Pro-Ride synthetic surface and with a field of 14, one of the top horses in the race, Misremembered, who was second in his last three starts will have to overcome post number 13.  Since winning the Indiana Derby, Misremembered has posted runner-up finishes in three consecutive races, the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs and the Malibu and Strub Stakes at Santa Anita, the latter as the 7-10 favorite. Martin Garcia will be in the irons for the first time. Misremembered has four wins and four seconds in 10 lifetime starts with earnings of $738,589.

Others top standouts are the Irish-bred Loup Breton, winner of the San Marcos Handicap on turf in his last start; San Pasqual Handicap victor Neko Bay; the funny running mare St Trinians, who captured the Santa Maria Handicap (gr. II) most recently; and grade I winners Mast Track and Marsh Side.

Neko Bay, Loup Breton, Mast Track and Marsh Side each accepted the high weight assignment of 117 pounds, an indication of just how evenly matched this field appears to be. St Trinians, with a sex allowance, is the field’s light weight at 113.

Loup Breton, group I-placed in France prior to transferring Southern California last fall, and will be trying a synthetic surface for the first time in the Big ‘Cap. The 6-year-old Irish-bred son of Anabaa has won two of three starts here, including the 1 1/4-mile San Marcos by a half-length over a “good” turf in late January.

Garrett Gomez will ride again. Loup Breton has won three times at the 10-furlong distance while compiling a lifetime mark of 5-4-2 in 21 starts with earnings of $677,614. He is favorably drawn in post six for Gomez, who has never won the Santa Anita Handicap.

St Trinians, who was originally targeted for the Santa Margarita Invitational on March 13th, became a Big ‘Cap contender rather than face the champion mare Zenyatta. The Santa Margarita Invitational is Zenyatta’s 2010 debut race. If St Trinians is successful, she would be the first female to win the race in 73 renewals. Bred in Great Britain, where she raced through 2008, St Trinians has exceeded all expectations in Southern California by winning her four starts by a combined 16 1/2 lengths. The 5-year-old mare has won seven of her 11 lifetime starts and $268,587.

Jeranimo has won two of three starts and finishing fourth in a troubled trip in the Sunshine Millions Classic. The 4-year-old was on the Triple Crown trail briefly last year before heading to the sidelines in April for six months. He finished third in Santa Anita’s San Felipe Stakes.

Neko Bay registered his first graded-stakes win in the San Pasqual on January 9th when he rallied five-wide in the 1 1/16-mile test to win by nearly two lengths. The 7-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway has won five races in his career, all at Santa Anita (in nine tries). Overall, he has finished in the money in 11 of 13 starts while banking $323,020. Neko Bay is one of two entered by trainer John Shirreffs, who also has Mast Track in the field.

The 6-year-old Mast Track formerly owned and bred by trainer Bobby Frankel, won the Native Diver Handicap and recently faded to sixth in the San Antonio Handicap. The 2008 Hollywood Gold Cup appears to be the pacesetter here in the Big Cap.

7-year-old Marsh Side will get another shot on the synthetic track following a seventh-place showing in the San Antonio. Marsh Side has not had an official victory since he captured the 2008 Canadian International (Can-IT) eight races ago.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer entered a pair in Dakota Phone, who just missed by a head to Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) hopeful Richard’s Kid in the San Antonio, and grade II winner Rendezvous, third in the San Fernando Stakes. Multiple graded winner Delightful Kiss, most recently third in Gulfstream Park’s Donn Handicap and Grade III Canadian winner Pool Play ship in and merit consideration as part of a contentious group.

The full field for the Santa Anita Handicap is below:

PP

Horse

A/S

Jockey

Wgt

Trainer

1 Pick Six (KY) 6/H A O Solis 114 D L Hendricks
2 St Trinians (GB) 5/M J Rosario 113 M R Mitchell
3 Rendezvous (KY) 4/C J Talamo 114 J Hollendorfer
4 Neko Bay (KY) 7/H M E Smith 117 J A Shirreffs
5 Eagle Poise (KY) 4/C T Baze 114 W I Mott
6 Loup Breton (IRE) 6/H G K Gomez 117 J C Canani
7 Mast Track (KY) 6/H D R Flores 117 J A Shirreffs
8 Pool Play (ON) 5/H C Sutherland 114 M E Casse
9 Marsh Side (KY) 7/H M A Pedroza 117 N D Drysdale
10 Tiger’s Rock (KY) 4/C D Cohen 114 M W McCarty
11 Dakota Phone (KY) 5/G V Espinoza 114 J Hollendorfer
12 Delightful Kiss (FL) 6/G J C Leyva 115 P D Anderson
13 Misremembered (KY) 4/R M Garcia 116 B Baffert
14 Jeranimo (FL) 4/C R Bejarano 116 M Pender

Around the Track
Info for the Race Handicapper

Breeders Cup

A Breeders’ Cup board member has indicated that the organization is leaning toward selecting a permanent host site for the World Championships, but the Breeders’ Cup backed away from the comments.

Breeders’ Cup representatives planned to meet March 3 to discuss the host-site plan. Officials indicated that Santa Anita Park meets the criteria of major media market, ability to accommodate crowds, good weather, and generating revenue through attendance and pari-mutuel handle. The only area in which it falls short is its racing surface, currently synthetic.

Breeders’ Cup officials have reached out to many in the industry, including Churchill Downs Inc. and the New York Racing Association. A Breeders’ Cup board member said NYRA is still battling financial problems, and Breeders’ Cup “can’t make any money” when the event is held at Churchill Downs, adding “Churchill will not deal with you on revenue and is probably the worst organization from a horseracing standpoint.”

Santa Anita Park

Turf specialist Loup Breton will try a synthetic surface for the first time in Saturday’s $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap. A winner of the San Marcos Stakes on January 24th, the 6-year-old Irish-bred has an all-turf record of 5-4-2 from 21 starts, and $677,614 in career earnings. Although he’s a newcomer to a synthetic surface, Loup Breton is well acquainted with the Big ’Cap distance of 1 ¼ miles, as he has posted three wins from 11 lifetime tries. Garrett Gomez, America’s leading rider by money won the past four years, will be seeking his first-ever win in the Big ’Cap, while the Peruvian-born Canani will pursue a Big ’Cap double, as he won the race with longshot Martial Law in 1989.

Saturday’s nine race program will be highlighted by the Gr. III, $150,000 Sham Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles. The field for the Sham will be redrawn and run this coming Saturday, March 6 after heavy rains cancelled racing. The Sham is an important steppingstone to the Gr. I Santa Anita Derby on April 3. The cancellation marked the fifth such weather related closure of the current winter/spring meet which began on December 26th.

Oaklawn Park

The Apple Blossom Invitational is looming next month and Oaklawn Park is getting ready to send out invitations to fill eight spots to compete against Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta for the April 9th race. Nominations for the Apple Blossom range from champion Stardom Bound to multiple Group 1 winner Bambera, who since January has been in training with Pablo Andrade at Calder

This ‘Race for the Ages’ is on track with the next step is getting past March 13, when both Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta are scheduled to make their seasonal debuts. Rachel Alexandra is to run at Fair Grounds, and Zenyatta at Santa Anita. The owners of both horses have indicated their intent to run in the Apple Blossom next.

Derby Future Book – Pool 2
Mutuel Field Still Odds on Favorite

As spring rolls on, the clock ticks a little louder while looking at this year’s crop of Derby hopefuls. With a win in the Fountain of Youth Stakes, Eskendereya leaped to the forefront of the Churchill Downs’ 2010 Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 to join Lookin At Lucky are the co-second choices at 6-1.

Eskendereya closed at 22-1 in Pool 1, Lookin At Lucky, the 8-1 favored individual in Pool 1, is scheduled to make his 2010 debut in the March 13 Rebel Stakes (gr. II) at Oaklawn Park.

Betting on Pool 2 is set to open at noon EST March 5 for wagering at racetracks and satellite wagering centers, along with TwinSpires.com and other on-line wagering platforms. Wagering will conclude at 6 p.m. March 7.

2010 KENTUCKY DERBY FUTURE WAGER

Pool 2 (March 5-7)

1

Aikenite

50-1

2

American Lion

30-1

3

Buddy’s Saint

12-1

4

Caracortado

12-1

5

Connemara

20-1

6

Conveyance

12-1

7

D’Funnybone

20-1

8

Dave in Dixie

30-1

9

Discreetly Mine

30-1

10

Dublin

15-1

11

Eskendereya

6-1

12

Jackson Bend

20-1

13

Lookin At Lucky

6-1

14

Nextdoorneighbor

30-1

15

Noble’s Promise

50-1

16

Odysseus

20-1

17

Radiohead

20-1

18

Rule

50-1

19

Setsuko

20-1

20

Sidney’s Candy

20-1

21

Super Saver

50-1

22

Tempted to Tapit

30-1

23

Vale of York

30-1

24

All Other 3YOs

7-2

Thoroughbred Racing Action
Weekend Stakes Action

Spring is knocking on the door and Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park offer up top-flight racing action including last weeks postponed Sham Stakes. Watch and wager on these stakes races…all on BetAmerica.com.

Friday – March 5

  • Delta Downs: Goddess Stakes, $100,000, 4&up, f/m, 8.5f.
  • Delta Downs: Gulf Coast Classic, $100,000, 4&up, 8.5f.

Saturday – March 6

  • Fair Grounds: Gentilly Stakes, $60,000, 3yo, Louisiana-bred, 8.5f (turf).
  • Fair Grounds: Sarah Lane’s Oates Stakes, $60,000, 3yo f, 8f (turf).
  • Gulfstream Park: Herecomesthebride Stakes –G3, $150,000, 3yo f, 9f (turf).
  • Gulfstream Park: Palm Beach Stakes – G3, $150,000, 3yo, 9f (turf).
  • Laurel Park: Wide Country Stakes, $50,000, 3yo f, 7f.
  • Oaklawn Park: Azeri B.C. Stakes – G3, $100,000, $50,000, 4&up, f/m, 8.5f.
  • Oaklawn Park: Razorback B.C. Handicap – G3, $100,000, 4&up, 8.5f.
  • Santa Anita: Santa Anita Handicap – G1, $750,000, 4&up, 10f.
  • Santa Anita: Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap – G1, $250,000, 4&up, 8f (turf).
  • Santa Anita: Santa Anita Oaks – G1, $250,000, 3yo f, 8.5f.
  • Santa Anita: Sham Stakes – G3, $150,000, 3yo, 9f.
  • Santa Anita: Pasadena Stakes, $60,000, 3yo, 8f (turf).
  • Tampa Bay Downs: Challenger Stakes, $50,000, 4&up, 8.5f.
  • Turfway Park: Wintergreen Stakes, $50,000, 4&up, f/m, 8f.

Sunday – March 7

  • Santa Anita: Joe Hernandez Stakes, $55,000, 4&up, 6.5f (turf).
  • Sunland Park: SPRC Claiming Stakes, $30,000, 3&up, 6f.

Harness Stakes Action
This Weekend’s Stakes Action

BetAmerica.com still has great harness action from the East Coast to the West Coast, from Canada and the U.S. Watch and Wager on these Harness stakes races this week:

Friday – March 5

  • Meadowlands: Overbid, $50,000, FFA Mare, Pace
  • Yonkers: Hopeful, $10,000, 3yo, Filly, Pace

Saturday – March 6

  • Meadowlands: Four Leaf Clover, $25,000, 4 & Under, Pace

Sunday – March 7

  • Meadowlands: Horse & Groom, $20,000, Open, Trot

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