Senor Buscador much the best in Springboard Mile Dec 19, 2020 by James Scully/TwinSpires.com Senor Buscador wins Springboard Mile S. at Remington Park (Dustin Orona Photography/Remington Park)
Senor Buscador utilized an eye-catching turn of foot,
accelerating past rivals on the far turn, and drew off impressively to capture Friday’s $200,000 Springboard Mile S. at Remington Park. A convincing winner in
both career starts, Senor Buscador is campaigned by Joe Peacock Jr. and trained
by Todd Fincher.
Luis Quinonez was up on the Mineshaft colt, and
Senor Buscador completed the mile in 1:37.87.
The Springboard Mile is part of the Road to the Kentucky Derby series, which now restricts qualifying points to horses that race without
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Senor Buscador wins the $200,000 Springboard Mile by 5 3/4 lengths under Luis Quinonez
Senor Buscador means Lord Seeker in English. Jockey Luis Quinonez must have been saying some prayers in the early going when he was about 17 lengths behind in the field of 10 for the $200,000 Springboard Mile on Friday, Dec. 18 at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Senor Buscador and Quinonez made up every bit of their trailing deficit, and more, to win the Springboard, Remington Park s top 2-year-old offering and a Kentucky Derby qualifying-points race. After making the lead before mid-stretch, Senor Buscador pulled away with ease to win by 5 3/4 lengths.
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If the Los Alamitos Futurity and Remington Springboard Mile were college basketball games, they would resemble what Jim Boeheim has scheduled for years at Syracuse. To Hall of Fame trainers Steve Asmussen and Bob Baffert their rivals must look like Colgate or Holy Cross or Niagara.
How great would it be if Dick Vitale were yelling “Cupcake City” into a microphone as he called these Kentucky Derby points preps?
They really have turned into the Baffert and Asmussen invitationals, haven’t they? Asmussen will be trying for his third consecutive Springboard Mile win Friday night and his seventh overall at the Oklahoma track where he has more career victories than any other trainer. Baffert will try to win for the seventh time in what is really the seventh running of the Los Al Futurity, which he has won every fall since it was moved from Hollywood Park.
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Outadore and Irad Ortiz Jr. give trainer Wesley Ward his third consecutive victory in the Juvenile Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs
Friday s $200,000 Remington Springboard Mile Stakes is a traditional December showcase for 2-year-olds who are just starting out on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, as this race awards a total of 17 points, including 10 to the winner.
Eleven colts and geldings are entered in this race, led by a pair of horses who last competed on Future Stars Friday as part of the Breeders Cup World Championships last month. Outadore is one of the two, having finished third in the Grade 1 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf following a victory in the Juvenile Turf Sprint in September. The other is Cowan, runner-up in the G2 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, following a runner-up effort in the Indian Summer Stakes one month earlier.
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