Friday Morning Notes
– There’s a pick six carryover of $303,367 at Belmont this afternoon. The sequence begins and ends with maiden special weight races for state-bred fillies and mares three and up. Good luck with those to anyone playing.
– Declan’s Moon, 2004 champion two-year-old male, snapped a seven-race losing streak with a three-length win in a six-furlong allowance/optional claiming at Hollywood on Thursday (ThoroTimes).
– Beyers from Wednesday’s races: High Finance earned 111 for the Tom Fool; Idiot Proof a big 113 for his record-setting Jersey Shore win at Monmouth. In the Dwyer, Any Given Saturday earned a figure that puts him at the top of the three-year-old division, writes Steven Crist. “Any Given Saturday’s winning figure of 110 is right there with Street Sense’s Derby (110), Curlin’s Preakness (111), and Rags to Riches’s Belmont (107)” (DRF+).
– Jockey Frankie Dettori has been handed a two-week suspension for whipping Queen Anne Stakes winner Ramonti excessively in the stretch. “Dettori was found to have whipped five-year-old Ramonti 25 times inside the final two and a half furlongs, with a high percentage of strikes coming inside the last 200 yards” (Independent).
– Empire Racing Associates will challenge what it calls “factual errors” in the New York inspector general’s integrity report to the governor on the four entities bidding for the New York racing franchise, reports the Saratogian. Integrity report details, and an especially good overview of the section on Empire, can be found on Left at the Gate.
