Horse Racing: Horse racing (through 2021)

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

I only bet turf races and don’t look at Gulf other than the championship meet.
So I haven’t been observing the Tapeta racing yet. I’ve heard it’s been playing fair. No real bias according to the regulars I talk to.
The handle at the Fairgrounds is pretty light. You can have a horse at 12 to 1 with a couple of minutes to post. Go off at 5 or 6 to 1. Doesn’t take much to move the win pools there. The exotics are pretty good there though. Don’t have many sharpies or syndicates playing there.

I assume you don't follow Oaklawn (AR) in the winter months. It is a notorious track to handicap early but has opportunities to find some scores. No turf racing is enough for some to avoid.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Aqueduct (New York):

• Race 2: Taco Bean (Mike Luzzi/Patrick Kelly) wired the field at 60-to-1. The gelding had never hit the board in eight previous starts and was never better than seventh. Mike Luzzi strikes again!

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• Race 3: Senbei (Manny Franco/Christophe Clement) was sent off the favorite and romped to an 8-length win in the $100,000 Notebook Stakes.
• Race 9: Classy Edition (Irad Ortiz, Jr./Todd Pletcher) was sent off the favorite and won the $100,000 Key Cents Stakes. Bombers at 50-to-1 and 38-to-1 followed.
• Race 10: The $.50 Pick 5 paid over $75,000. Though it began and ended with bombers, two favorites also won in the sequence.

Gulfstream (Florida):

• Closing Day: Gulfstream is dark until the Championship meet opens December 3.
• Jockey Champ: Edgard Zayas with 43 wins. Chantal Sutherland followed with 29 wins.
• Trainer Champ: Saffie Joseph, Jr. dominated with 36 wins.
• Race 4: Edgar Prado won for the 7,107th time. He is the 8th winningest rider in North America annals.
• Race 5: The $1 double paid $634.50. The $.50 Pick 4 paid over $12,000.
• Race 6: The Pick 3 paid out to those who hit two legs. Second time in two days I saw that (also Laurel yesterday).

Churchill Downs (Kentucky):

• Tyler Gaffalione won twice and finished the day 4 2-1-1. He leads the meet by five wins. He is on his way to another riders' title inside Kentucky.

Del Mar (California):

• Race 7: Principe Carlo (Kent Desormea1ux/Librado Barocio) won the $100,000 Cary Grant Stakes in a nail-biter as the longest shot on the board at 18-to-1. The jockey started in 1986 and has over 6,000 wins. The trainer began his career in 1999 and has 33 lifetime wins.

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

The feature at Del Mar yesterday was exhaustive to watch. Much on the line. A great track and host to the Breeders' Cup. To see Desormeaux back in glory is one thing. To see a small-time trainer gain a measure of success is fantastic. Desormeaux, forever opinionated, once chastized photo finishes. I bet he feels otherwise today.

Principe Carlo ($39) steals the show in Cary Grant

DEL MAR, Calif. – For more than two decades, Librado Barocio has kept his hand in the racing business as an on-again, off-again trainer, while also overseeing his Culver City, Calif.-based New Latin Cinema production company. On Sunday at Del Mar, in a race named for cinema great Cary Grant, Barocio had perhaps the best picture of his life.

The photo-finish camera showed his trainee Principe Carlo a nose winner over 2-1 favorite Positivity at the end of the $100,500 Cary Grant. The victory was the first stakes win for Barocio, who has won 33 races dating back to 1999.
“I prayed so hard. I felt good about it,” Barocio said of awaiting the result to be posted on the tote board. “I was hoping my eyes weren’t deceiving me.”

They weren’t. Principe Carlo ($39), under Kent Desormeaux, had gotten up in the last jump to nail Positivity, with Colt Fiction another half-length back in third. None Above the Law, Peaceful Transfer, Fashionably Fast, and Loud Mouth completed the order of finish.

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Barocio went to film school at UCLA, graduating in 1987. He worked for the late, great trainer Julio Canani, and credits him and Canani’s assistant, Miguel Delgado, with his racetrack education.

Working in the film industry is his main source of income, but racing is in his blood, and thus he has dabbled in it over the years, with a handful of horses at a time. He’s had a couple of instances where he didn’t train for three years. Only four times has he had more than 25 starters in a season, and he’s never won more than six races in a single year. His win total this year is 3.

“People have been good to me all along,” Barocio said, specifically thanking Chris Merz, the racing secretary at Santa Anita, and David Jerkens, who holds a similar position at Del Mar.

“People have believed in me. They’ve given me a chance,” he said.

Barocio owns Principe Carlo, racing as Mia Familia Racing Stable.

“Mia Famila is my wife, two daughters, and son,” Barocio said.

Quite the story. Might make a good movie.​

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

The first 2022 Kentucky Derby Future Pool is here. Notice the absence of Bob Baffert's horses who will be ineligible based on his suspension at Churchill Downs. If owners switch to another trainer, the horses will become options per rules. That is another risk with this pool. Bet and the horse never runs in the race results in a loss not a refund.

Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 1

Number	Horse (Trainer)	M-L Pool 1 Odds
1	Ben Diesel (Dallas Stewart)	30-1
2	Classic Causeway (Brian Lynch)	15-1
3	Commandperformance (Todd Pletcher)	15-1
4	Double Thunder (Todd Pletcher)	30-1
5	Epicenter (Steve Asmussen)	30-1
6	Forced Ranking (Chad Brown)	30-1
7	Giant Game (Dale Romans)	15-1
8	Graphic Detail (Bill Mott)	50-1
9	Gunite (Steve Asmussen)	20-1
10	Howling Time (Dale Romans)	20-1
11	Jack Christopher (Chad Brown)	10-1
12	Major General (Todd Pletcher)	20-1
13	Mo Donegal (Todd Pletcher)	20-1
14	Osbourne (Ron Moquett)	30-1
15	Oviatt Class (Keith Desormeaux)	30-1
16	Pappacap (Mark Casse)	12-1
17	Rattle N Roll (Kenny McPeek)	15-1
18	Smile Happy (Kenny McPeek)	50-1
19	Tiz the Bomb (Kenny McPeek)	20-1
20	Trafalgar (Al Stall Jr.)	50-1
21	Varatti (Todd Pletcher)	50-1
22	Zandon (Chad Brown)	30-1
23	All fillies from the 2019 foal crop	50-1
24	All other colts and geldings from the 2019 foal crop	1-1

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Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager

Number	Horse	M-L Odds
1	American Pharoah	20-1
2	Candy Ride	30-1
3	Curlin	15-1
4	Empire Maker	12-1
5	Giant’s Causeway	15-1
6	Gun Runner	15-1
7	Into Mischief	20-1
8	Mastery	30-1
9	Medaglia d’Oro	30-1
10	Munnings	12-1
11	Not This Time	15-1
12	Nyquist	30-1
13	Pioneerof the Nile	30-1
14	Practical Joke	20-1
15	Quality Road	8-1
16	Runhappy	20-1
17	Speightstown	30-1
18	Street Sense	20-1
19	Tapit	15-1
20	Twirling Candy	30-1
21	Uncle Mo	20-1
22	Union Rags	30-1
23	Violence	30-1
24	All other sires	6-1

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Monday, November 22, 2021

Mahoning Valley (Ohio):

• Race 8: Timeless Bounty (Malcolm Franklin/David Wilson, Jr.) won the $250,000 Steel Valley Sprint Stakes at the inflated odds of 59-to-1. The winner returned $121.20/$78.40/$37.60. The $2 exacta was a massive $2,200+. The $.50 tri was a stunning $7,800+. The $.10 super paid over $35,000. The race attracted Jose Ortiz, Jose Lezcano, Frankie Pennington, Paco Lopez, Edgard Zayas, among others. Timeless Bounty is a rare Michigan-bred still running.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunland Park in New Mexico, which has been shut since March 2020 due to COVID concerns, will race 55 days starting December 31 and concluding April 3.

The Sunland Park Derby, offering 50-20-10-5 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, will be held March 27.

Sunland Park is one of five tracks in New Mexico (SunRay, Sunland, Ruidoso, Zia and Albuquerque Downs).

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

TAMPA BAY (FL) -- Wednesday is opening day.

Reminder that Tampa Bay's popular meet (especially for turf players) starts tomorrow (Wednesday) and runs through May 7 which is Kentucky Derby Day. It has arguably the best turf in the Eastern U.S. during winter months. Due to annual fiscal rules, the track is dark until a 2-day summer meet which begins June 30 and that is the official closing day of the upcoming meet.

July 1, 2022 starts the next meet but the track is dark until this time 2022 following that one day of operating.

Race #	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
Race 1	$13,500	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	9	12:43 PM ET
Race 2	$12,500	Maiden Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	14	1:13 PM ET
Race 3	$14,500	Maiden Claiming	1 Mile	Turf	13	1:43 PM ET
Race 4	$13,500	Claiming	7 Furlongs	Dirt	14	2:13 PM ET
Race 5	$20,000	Claiming	1 1/16 Miles	Turf	10	2:43 PM ET
Race 6	$26,500	Maiden Special Weight	7 Furlongs	Dirt	10	3:16 PM ET
Race 7	$28,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	1 1/16 Miles	Turf	10	3:49 PM ET
Race 8	$15,500	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	11	4:19 PM ET
Race 9	$16,100	Claiming	1 Mile	Turf	14	4:49 PM ET

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Tracks that will be operating on Thursday (Thanksgiving) include:

Charles Town (WV)
Churchill Downs (KY)
Del Mar (CA)
Fair Grounds (LA) -- opening day
Golden Gate (CA)
Laurel (MD)
Woodbine (ON)
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A look into next month: NYRA tracks (Aqueduct) will be dark from Sunday, December 19 (not running that day) until re-opening Thursday, December 30.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

FAIR GROUNDS (LA) -- Thursday is opening day

Race #	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
Race 1	$15,000	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	11	12:00 PM CT
Race 2	$41,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	About 1 Mile	Turf	12	12:32 PM CT
Race 3	$17,000	Claiming	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	11	1:04 PM CT
Race 4	$41,000	Allowance	About 1 1/16 Miles	Turf	9	1:36 PM CT
Race 5	$45,000	Maiden Special Weight	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	7	2:08 PM CT
Race 6	$42,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	About 1 1/8 Miles	Turf	11	2:40 PM CT
Race 7	$150,000	Thanksgiving Classic S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	3:12 PM CT
Race 8	$75,000	Joseph R. Peluso Memorial S.	About 1 1/16 Miles	Turf	11	3:44 PM CT
Race 9	$45,000	Maiden Special Weight	5 1/2 Furlongs	Dirt	16	4:16 PM CT

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Pink Lloyd, one of the most successful Canadian-breds of all-time, will retire following Saturday's race at Woodbine. Pink Lloyd is 37 28-3-2 lifetime with $1.7 million earned. He has never raced outside Woodbine. He has won his past two races and hit the board 10 straight times.

His awards in Canada are as follows:

• Sovereign Award 2020 Champion Male Sprinter
• Sovereign Award 2019 Champion Male Sprinter
• Sovereign Award 2019 Champion Older Dirt Male
• Sovereign Award 2018 Champion Male Sprinter
• Sovereign Award 2017 Horse of the Year
• Sovereign Award 2017 Champion Older Horse
• Sovereign Award 2017 Champion Male Sprinter

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Zia Park (New Mexico):

• Irad Ortiz, Jr.-Steve Asmussen combined to go 5 3-2-0. Asmussen had a 4-win day with another victory at Remington. He is roughly 450 wins away for 10,000 in his career in which his current total is the most in North America history. Based on current indicators, he could reach the 10,000-win figure around December 2022.

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Race #	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
Race 1	$16,000	Claiming	870 Yards	Dirt	7	12:00 PM MT
Race 2	$17,500	Maiden Claiming	350 Yards	Dirt	12	12:27 PM MT
Race 3	$16,500	Maiden Claiming	1 Mile	Dirt	6	12:54 PM MT
Race 4	$50,000	Zia Park Juvenile S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	1:21 PM MT
Race 5	$75,000	Zia Park Sprint S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	1:48 PM MT
Race 6	$75,000	Zia Park Distaff S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	9	2:15 PM MT
Race 7	$50,000	Zia Park Princess S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	2:42 PM MT
Race 8	$250,000	Zia Park Derby	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	5	3:06 PM MT
Race 9	$75,000	Zia Park Championship H.	1 1/8 Miles	Dirt	9	3:36 PM MT
Race 10	$200,000	Zia Park Oaks	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	6	4:03 PM MT

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[Marco 85]

FAIR GROUNDS (LA) -- Thursday is opening day

Race #	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
Race 1	$15,000	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	11	12:00 PM CT
Race 2	$41,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	About 1 Mile	Turf	12	12:32 PM CT
Race 3	$17,000	Claiming	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	11	1:04 PM CT
Race 4	$41,000	Allowance	About 1 1/16 Miles	Turf	9	1:36 PM CT
Race 5	$45,000	Maiden Special Weight	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	7	2:08 PM CT
Race 6	$42,000	Allowance Optional Claiming	About 1 1/8 Miles	Turf	11	2:40 PM CT
Race 7	$150,000	Thanksgiving Classic S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	3:12 PM CT
Race 8	$75,000	Joseph R. Peluso Memorial S.	About 1 1/16 Miles	Turf	11	3:44 PM CT
Race 9	$45,000	Maiden Special Weight	5 1/2 Furlongs	Dirt	16	4:16 PM CT

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Reading about the upcoming Fairgrounds meet. With Churchill and Delta Downs open and Oaklawn opening earlier this year. They will have a hard time filling the lower level dirt races. So early on they will only have a few claiming races each day.
Until the horse population increase.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Steve Asmussen won with his first five starters at Churchill Downs on Thursday. Looks like a rider switch from Ricardo Santana, Jr. has helped. Joel Rosario (3 wins) and Tyler Gaffalione (2 wins) rode.

Gaffalione has enhanced his reputation as Mr. Kentucky with a 4-win day.

 

[Marco 85]

First day at Fairgrounds today.

Speed was dominate on the turf around 2 turns.
The same as it has been the past few years.
If you go into the first turn and aren’t in the top 4. You’re dead.

Cherie DeVaux is an excellent trainer.
Former assistant to one of the big guys. Don’t remember who exactly.
Always use her especially on the turf.

The La. bred races are some of the worse races you’ll ever see anyone.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

^She worked for Chad Brown.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Friday, November 26, 2021

Aqueduct (New York):

• Race 9: Bees and Honey (Jose Lezcano/J. Reeves McGaughey) won the Grade 3 $200,000 Comely Stakes as the second longest shot on the board at 13-to-1. The trainer won a graded stakes for the first time. He is a son to Shug McGaughey, one of the most successful trainers ever, who won twice today at the Big A. The young trainer won his first race in 2020 after serving as five years under Charlie LoPresti.

Laurel (Maryland):

• Brittany Russell sent out four starters and two won but Hello Beautiful the 1-to-5 loser was not pretty.
• Race 4: Hello Beautiful (Jevian Toledo/Brittany Russell) was sent off 1-to-5 with an amazing career record of 10 9-0-0 at Laurel but looked to be in trouble on the rail early before finishing off the board. That sent show prices skyrocketing at $21.20, $15.60 and $55.80, the latter a 53-to-1 shot.
• Race 9: Whereshetoldmetogo (Jevian Toledo/Brittany Russell) won the $75,000 feature.

Tampa Bay Downs (Florida):

• Gerald Bennett has begun the meet 11 0-1-1. A long way to go to May when the meet ends, but he likely would be the leading trainer when all is said and done.
• Race 5: The $.50 Pick 5 paid over $57,000.

Churchill Downs (Kentucky):

• Race 11: Maxfield (Jose Ortiz/Brendan Walsh) ended his career by winning the Grade1 $750,000 Clark Stakes. Maxfield will go down in history with an 11 8-2-1 record and just over $2,000,000 earned.

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• Race 5: Flashy Charge (Thiago Canuto/Matt Frazier) won at 54-to-1. The rider began his career 0-for-156 until winning in June. The exacta was comprised of 54-to-1 and 34-to-1 shots, the biggest prices on the board and paid $972. The $.50 Pick 5 paid over $44,000.
  
• No repeats, 'cept one: No trainer repeated wins today in 12 races and the lone rider to claim multiple wins was Tyler Gaffalione with two victories.
• Ortiz Brothers: Both made a rare trip to Churchill Downs and each had one win.

Del Mar (California):

• Race 7: Say the Word (Kent Desormeaux/Phil D'Amato) won the Grade 2 $200,000 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes. The well-traveled 6-year-old Ontario-bred was winless in three starts at Del Mar but was out for the 33rd time. A last-to-first win in a 1 1/2 mile race.

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Pink Lloyd went out in style winning his career finale. The 9-year-old Canadian sensation finished 37 29-3-2 with more than $2.3 million earned with each race at Woodbine. An emotionally appreciative trainer Robert Tiller had a dream horse.

 

[Marco 85]

Pink Lloyd went out in style winning his career finale. The 9-year-old Canadian sensation finished 37 29-3-2 with more than $2.3 million earned with each race at Woodbine. An emotionally appreciative trainer Robert Tiller had a dream horse.

Real nice that he went out on top.
Good job by the owners and trainer.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Part 1 Sunday, November 27
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Aqueduct (New York):

• Race 9: Mutamakina (Dylan Davis/Christophe Clement) won the Grade 3 $400,000 Long Island Stakes.

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Churchill Downs (Kentucky):

• Card: Extraordinary! The first six races were MSW at $92,000 or more. There were also three stakes including two graded.
• Kenny McPeek had what is perhaps a career day with four victories among 14 horses sent. He has a good collection of young talent.
• Corey Lanerie rode three winners for Kenny McPeek. Lanerie rode consecutive winners for a staggering $523,90 $1 double.
• Race 10: Dream Lith (Ramon Vasquez/Robertino Diodoro) won the $400,000 Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes. The 2-year-old filly is a daughter to Medagalia d'Oro.

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• Race 11: Smile Happy (Corey Lanerie/Kenny McPeek) won the $400,000 Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. The race is a Kentucky Derby prep and the winner was awarded 10 points towards entry. The colt is a Runhappy offspring. He is 2-for-2 and has looked strong. Said Lanerie following the race "You'd think this horse ran 10 times already with how mature he acts. He's very ratable and easy to ride. I felt very confident with him at the half-mile pole. I could tell I had a lot of horse beneath me. I got him into the right spot, and he really kicked clear in the stretch. He's got a bright future." Lanerie deserves a star horse. The entire racing community is rooting for him. McPeek has never won a Kentucky Derby in six tries.

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Part 2 (Saturday, November 27)
Del Mar (California):

• Handle: $16 million.
• Hall of Famers: Today was a day for veteran Hall of Fame riders to shine. Mike Smith, John Velazquez and Kent Desormeaux all delivered bombers to victory.
• Race 9: Beyond Brilliant (Kent Desormeaux/John Shirreffs) won the $400,000 Grade I Hollywood Derby as he wired the field and won by a neck at 10-to-1. Santin (Umberto Rispoli/Brendan Walsh) placed at 17-to-1. Desormeaux has been hot with eight wins the past five racing days and graded stakes victories on consecutive days. What is old is new again.

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• Race 8: Took Charge (John Velazquez/Richard Baltas) wired the field at 12-to-1. Velazquez is 30 wins away from 15th place in North America history.
• Race 7: Tezzaray (Irad Ortiz. Jr./Peter Miller) won the Grade 3 $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes over Awake At Midnyte (Mario Gutierrez/Doug O'Neill) by a nose. That is not a joke.

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• Race 5: Field Pass (Umberto Rispoli/Michael Maker) won the Grade 2 $250,000 Seabiscuit Handicap. The 4-year-old Maryland-bred was out for the 23rd time and is a multiple graded stakes winner approaching a million dollars in career earnings. This, however. may have been the ride of the day. Rispoli is a turf specialist but...what a ride!

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• Race 3: Miss Mattie B (Mike Smith/Robert Hess) won at 29-to-1. The stunning win result of $61.80 was mocked when the $1 exacta paid $30.40. How is that possible?
• Race 1: The Ortiz Brothers finished 1-2 and the $1 exacta paid $116. An exorbitant figure for those two in what was a rare trip to Del Mar.

Woodbine (Ontario):

• Pink Lloyd (Rafael Hernandez/Robert Tiller) went out in style winning his career finale. The 9-year-old Canadian sensation finished 37 29-3-2 with more than $2.3 million earned with each race at Woodbine. An emotionally appreciative Tiller had a dream horse.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

SOUTHERN CAL REMINDER:

• Del Mar closes for the season today.
• Los Alamitos runs Dec 3-12.
• Santa Anita runs Dec. 26-June 19, 2022.

No racing is scheduled from Dec. 13-Dec. 25.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Sunday, November 27, 2021

• Florida: Today was a rare Sunday in which Florida did not conduct racing. Tampa Bay picks up Sundays on December 26. Gulfstream is in between meets and re-opens Friday.

Aqueduct (New York):

• Race 10: The $.50 Pick 5 paid over $176,000. The sequence began with a 22-to-1 shot winning.
• Race 8: Hopeful Treasure (Mychal Sanchez/Michael Catalano, Jr.) won the $200,000 Grade 3 Fall Highweight Handicap at 18-to-1. Catalano earned a rare win in New York. He is based in Philadelphia and Delaware mostly and made his bones at Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts. This is undoubtedly one of his biggest wins.

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• Jose Lezcano rode three winners.

Churchill Downs (Kentucky):

• Card: Churchill gets a lot of criticism for what they have done at places like Calder and Arlington and deservedly so. And though much of a separate issue, their purse structure at the home track is enormous. A $134,000 allowance race? A $141,000 allowance optional claiming race? Very attractive purses.
• Closing Day: The meet ended. Onto Turfway.
• Leading Jockey: Tyler Gaffalione dominated the meet with 34 wins, 16 more than his closes challenger. He is the new Mr. Kentucky. He won his sixth straight Churchill Downs Fall Meet title and seventh CD title overall. The boy from Florida has grown into a very successful jockey and his future is unlimited.
• Leading Trainer: Steve Asmussen with 20 wins. He is the winningest trainer in North America history and his 25 meet titles at Churchill Downs is another record. There seems to be a split with the Asmussen camp and number one rider Ricardo Santana, Jr. Their surprisingly horrible Keeneland numbers will always be cited. Santana won just two of 42 this meet but Asmussen used Tyler Gaffalione and Joel Rosario with higher regularity.

Del Mar (California):

• Closing Day: Onto Los Alamitos. Racing will return to Del Mar July 22, 2022 for the track's 83rd summer season.
• Record Handle: $943.49 million was wagered this year, a record for the track. Another meet, another track, another record. The 13-day meet had $171.58 million bet.
• Today's Handle: $17 million. Almost $4 million added to the Pick 6 'pot.
• Leading Jockey: Juan Hernandez with 17 wins.
• Leading Trainer: Phil D'Amato with 13 wins.
• East Coast Stars: Jose Ortiz-Chad Brown won both graded stakes.
• Race 7: Regal Glory (Jose Ortiz/Chad Brown) won the $400,000 Grade I Matriarch Stakes. “Just go to the lead. That's what my boss told the jockey. That was the plan. She's a really nice filly and she did it all. I had some moments (of concern) because the other one (Viadera) is very good too. But this filly was just the best. They all (Chad Brown's seven horses) go back to Kentucky on Tuesday and then to Florida,” Juan Hernandez, assistant to trainer Brown, said after the Matriarch.

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• Race 5: Handy Dandy (Kent Desormeaux/Peter Miller) won at 25-to-1, The hot rider picked up the mount earlier in the day.
• Race 4: Newgrange (John Velazquez/Bob Baffert) won his maiden race in style. Baffert may have another 2-year-old in his barn worth watching. The 2-year-old son to Violence out of an Empire Maker mare was purchased for $125,000 last year.
• Race 3: Verbal (Jose Ortiz/Chad Brown) came from back of the pack and won the $100,000 Grade 3 Cecel B. DeMille as the even -money favorite. Verbal is 2-for-2 lifetime and looks like a strong prospect. “He won easy last time, but that was against maidens. He was running against winners today, much better horses. I knew there would be speed in the race so, even though I had the outside post, I was able to drop over and save some ground. He came running when it counted. The boss (trainer Chad Brown) knows how to spot a horse. He had it right today,” said Ortiz.

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Woodbine (Ontario):

• Weather: A blizzard made for pretty images.
• Rafael Hernandez-Mark Casse teamed to win both graded stakes.
  
• Race 6: The $.2o superfecta returned over $6,000.
• Race 8: Mrs. Barbara (Rafael Hernandez/Mark Casse) won the $150,000 Grade 3 Magazine Stakes amid snowfall. It was the first graded stakes win for the2-year-old Bodemeister filly. She was out for the sixth time and has won consecutive starts after breaking her maiden in her fifth try.
• Race 9: God of Love (Rafael Hernandez/Mark Casse) won the $150,000 Grade 3 Grey Stakes. It was the first graded stakes win for the 2-year-old Cupid colt who was out for the fourth time.

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• Closing Day: December 5. The track shuts until springtime 2022.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Few venues in all of sport are as beautiful as Del Mar. The Breeders' Cup enhanced figures but another track showing staggering wagering numbers. When the November numbers are released across America, the figure should be an all-time record, too. Tracks are reporting sensational figures. And with the horse sales also showing excessive purchasing figures, many aspects of this sport are invigorating.

Del Mar 2021 Seasons: Record Handle, Safe Racing Among Highlights - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., brought to a close its 2021 racing calendar on Sunday with the conclusion of its eighth Bing Crosby Season adding additional luster to its robust summer stand. Between them, the pair totaled an exceptional combined final wagering mark of $943.49 million, a record for the seaside oval.

The track could point to many other positives throughout the 2021 year – the return of racing fans, exceptional purses for its horsemen, and hosting another record-setting Breeders' Cup among them. But the standard the track is proudest of is its continuing mark as America's safest major racetrack. Only one horse was injured catastrophically in the 426 races and 3,552 starters that performed during the two sessions, a mark that is unmatched in the country.
Total handle for the four-week, 13-day fall session was $171.58 million. The fall meet average daily handle was a record $13.19 million, which was 1.0% higher than the record average daily handle posted last year.

The Breeders' Cup – conducted at Del Mar on November 5 and 6 – had a common-pool handle of $183,260,127, a two-day record for the championship event.​

 

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Oaklawn opens December 3. The all-dirt track in Arkansas has an expanded meet which runs into May 2022 with high purses and a reputation for high payouts for handicappers looking to fill exotics with bombers.

Race #	Purse	Race Type	Distance	Surface	Starters	Est. Post
Race 1	$26,000	Claiming	5 1/2 Furlongs	Dirt	7	12:30 PM CT
Race 2	$35,000	Maiden Claiming	1 Mile	Dirt	12	12:58 PM CT
Race 3	$42,000	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	7	1:26 PM CT
Race 4	$25,000	Claiming	6 Furlongs	Dirt	12	1:55 PM CT
Race 5	$84,000	Maiden Special Weight	6 Furlongs	Dirt	11	2:21 PM CT
Race 6	$26,000	Starter Allowance	1 1/16 Miles	Dirt	9	2:51 PM CT
Race 7	$84,000	Maiden Special Weight	6 Furlongs	Dirt	9	3:19 PM CT
Race 8	$150,000	Advent S.	6 Furlongs	Dirt	10	3:46 PM CT
Race 9	$100,000	Allowance	6 Furlongs	Dirt	11	4:13 PM CT

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By The Numbers: Gulfstream’s Tapeta Surface Sees Favorites Win At 36 Percent Clip - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report

The 2021-2022 Championship Meet will break new ground when racing is conducted on Gulfstream Park's newly constructed Tapeta surface, as well as on turf and dirt, for the first time during the winter stand that gets underway Friday.

The well-received all-weather surface, which debuted during the inaugural Fall Meet, was constructed upon the advent of year-round racing at the Hallandale Beach racetrack. While the turf course was undergoing renovation during October and November in preparation for the Championship Meet, the Tapeta course proved to be a popular alternative surface to the main track.

Gulfstream is the first racetrack in the Americas to card races on dirt, turf and an all-weather surface. There are no stakes scheduled on the Tapeta course, but the all-weather racing surface will be employed in the event stakes are transferred from the turf course due to inclement conditions.

A total of 143 races were run over the Tapeta course at the recently concluded Fall Meet while producing some expected and perhaps unexpected results.

Favorites had a win-strike rate of 36 percent.Horses that favor turf over dirt performed well over the all-weather surface, as widely expected overall. After the first two weeks of racing on Tapeta, horses that had made their most recent starts on turf won 27 of 37 races for a whopping 73 percent. As the meet progressed and horses started running back on Tapeta with no turf races available to them, the percentage of horses going from Turf to the all-weather track dropped to 41 percent.

Horses coming from off the pace dominated during the first two weeks of racing on the Tapeta course, winning 22 of 37 races or 59 percent of the races. At meet's end, closers succeeded at a 41-percent clip. After the first two weeks only three horses won on the front end (8 percent), but the speedsters fared better as the meet went along to score at a 17-percent clip by winning 25 of 143 races. Horses pressing or stalking the pace won the remainder of the races.​