Whitney Handicap
Handicapper Brad Thomas critiques the 2013 Whitney Handicap results:
“to any developing 3YO still ambulatory late in the year and to Royal Delta …“
Watching Cross Traffic and every other contender but Successful Dan drift, list, and stagger across the wire (replay), it’s hard to argue otherwise.
The DRF Formulator Whitney fractions:
Cross Traffic was given a Beyer speed figure of 108 for his Whitney win.
(Thomas tweets via @superterrific.)
I’m heading up to Saratoga for the Whitney Handicap, which is a Breeders’ Cup Classic Challenge race and a stakes I best remember for 2006, the year Invasor won by digging in and outlasting Sun King by a nose. There is no Invasor in this year’s field, but the winner will get a guaranteed spot in this fall’s Classic, a race Invasor also won in 2006 at awesome odds of 7-1. If I’m missing, just a little, a horse retired more than four years ago, it’s probably because I recently wrote a profile of Invasor for Hello Race Fans, which includes several replays from his career, including — of course! — the Whitney.
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