Keep an Eye On
– Trainer Barry Abrams and apprentice Joe Talamo at Hollywood. The pair have won four of five in the past three weeks; their overall percentage is 36% for 2006-2007. Talamo is also doing well with horses from trainer Vladimir Cerin’s barn, winning three of eight in the last month and finishing second or third in four others, giving the pair an 88% ITM rate for June.
– Debut starters by first-crop sire Hook and Ladder, who got his third winner out of five runners to race so far on Thursday at Belmont. I Promise, out of the Affirmed mare Affirm Promise, paid $26.80 to win race two, a five furlong maiden special weight.
