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Carolyn Simancik / Eclipse Sportswire
It looks like the third time indeed will be the charm for the 2021 debuts of Brad Cox stars Essential Quality and Monomoy Girl.
After weather-related postponements the last two weeks, Oaklawn is scheduled Saturday to hold the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes a Kentucky Derby points prep pitching Essential Quality against Jackie s Warrior, Keepmeinmind and Spielberg and the Bayakoa (G3) on Sunday, with champion older dirt female Monomoy Girl making her return.
Gulfstream hosts points preps Saturday for the Kentucky Derby with the Fountain of Youth (G2) and for the Kentucky Oaks with the Davona Dale (G2). And on Friday, Turfway s ungraded John Battaglia Memorial offers 10-4-2-1 Kentucky Derby points to the top four finishers.
Study Guide: 2021 John Battaglia Memorial Feb 23, 2021 J. Keeler Johnson
The $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park has long served as a local steppingstone toward the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3), Turfway s signature race. But Friday s renewal of the John Battaglia is the most significant to date for the first time, the 1 1/16-mile race serves as a Road to the Kentucky Derby prep event awarding qualification points to the top four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 basis.
Gretzky the Great
Wins: 3
Sire: Nyquist
Jockey: Gerardo Corrales
A son of 2016 Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, Gretzky the Great is easily the most accomplished runner in the John Battaglia field. A two-time stakes winner, Gretzky the Great used his pace-tracking speed to dominate the Summer (G1) at Woodbine last fall by 3 1/4 lengths. Although he hasn t run since finishing sixth against a tough field in the Nov. 6 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), Gretzky the Great has been training forwardly for his retu
Like red is the color of a good score in golf, a bad score in bookkeeping and a Republican score in an election, it is also an indication of odds getting longer for a horse. Who among horseplayers does not want that?
There were lots of 2-year-olds with drifting odds in the last week, especially at Circa Sports here in Las Vegas.
Risk supervisor and racing specialist Paul Zilm turned 110 of the 199 choices in the Kentucky Derby futures at Circa into horses of a different color. Nearly half 94, to be exact went red, their odds growing longer and more attractive to bettors.
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SOOO much unity! Amy ‘Jesus-Land’ Siskind tries deleting VILE tweet where she straight-up threatened the suburbs (but we got it!)
Posted at 11:22 am on December 14, 2020 by Sam J.
Wasn’t it just last week when Amy Siskind was babbling about the blue states joining with Canada? She deleted that one too …
You’d think she’d put the Twitter down for a little bit if she has to keep deleting her tweets but here we are.
She deleted it but it s worth keeping note of who s calling for unity pic.twitter.com/MqL6PZPOqX
Can you feel, the love toniiiiiight?