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Sep 27, 2018

Bob Baffert’s Game Winner, who upset his highly regarded stablemate Roadster in winning the Grade I Del Mar Futurity Sept. 3, heads a field of five juveniles going  1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s Grade I, $300,000 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita.

                    Originally run as the Norfolk and most recently contested as the FrontRunner Stakes, the American Pharoah, one of four Grade I, Breeder’s Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Races, is named for Baffert’s brilliant 2015 Triple Crown winner, who annexed the FrontRunner in September of 2014.

GAME WINNER

Owner:  Gary & Mary West

Trainer:  Bob Baffert

                    A 5 ¾ length first out maiden winner going six furlongs on Aug. 18, this Kentucky-bred colt by Candy Ride rallied from off the pace to take the seven furlong Del Mar Futurity by 1 ½ lengths over Jerry Hollendorfer’s Rowayton.  Baffert’s Roadster, who was heavily favored, finished third, two lengths behind his stablemate.  Dispatched at 8-5, Game Winner was ridden for the first time by Mario Gutierrez in the Futurity, however he’ll be handled for the first time on Saturday by eastern-based Joel Rosario.  Like all but one of his rivals, Game Winner will be trying two turns for the first time in what will be his third career start.

ROWAYTON

Owner:  OXO Equine, LLC

Trainer:  Jerry Hollendorfer

                    An impressive 1 ¾ length first out maiden winner going five furlongs on July 21, this Into Mischief colt showed brilliant speed going seven furlongs in the Grade I Del Mar Futurity, but was run down in the final sixteenth of a mile by Game...

Today’s “Lock” is at Flamboro Downs: Race 7-#1-Casimir Overdrive-Has the rail and class to win in this group. Robert Shepherd drives. Last “Lock” won again! Howard’s record stands at: 282 of 457 wins with 84 seconds and 26 thirds.

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Here are Thursday’s picks for Monticello for our IdaBet.com players:

1ST RACE: 6-2-3-5

2ND RACE: 5-2-3-4

3RD RACE: 1-6-4-8

4TH RACE: 2-1-4-8

5TH RACE: 6-3-1-8

6TH RACE: 1-5-3-2

7TH RACE: 1-2-3-5

8TH RACE: 4-5-1-6

9TH RACE: 6-3-2-4

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Some insights into tonight’s racing program for our IdaBet players:

1ST RACE – (5) ANOTHER DAILY COPY returns from Pocono into a class he should handle. He’s not what he was, which explains why winds up with these.  

2ND RACE – (2) HEY JUDY JUDY has not disgraced herself of late, pair of off-pace thirds. Worth shot starting directly outside New York Sire Stakes refugee.

4TH RACE – (6) CHAPERESS is 0-for-10 this season, but raced decently in Excelsior event here earlier. Generally been minding manners, so gets a tepid gaze.

5TH RACE – (2) SOUTHWIND CRUZE did not fire taking coin upon arrival from Vernon. Tries it here off barn change, nod hooking toughie three doors down.  

6TH RACE – (6) LILY’S SWAN POND gets another four-eyeball after good pocket second in latest. Figures put in play once again despite draw but can handle.

7TH RACE – (5) THAT’S MY OPINION has been hard to figure, but returns to town off good Monti win. Sees bunch of recent lightweights here, thus why not?

9TH

Sep 26, 2018

 Drew Campbell, who is currently the second leading percentage driver in North America, displayed exactly why he is on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 25) at Plainridge Park by winning six races on the 11 race card by a combined 27-lengths.

Campbell cruised home on top with Dr. C’s Z Tam (1:54.1, $4.60), Shanghai Warrior (1:53.1, $4.80), Stonebridge Honey (1:54.4, $2.20), Golden Idol (1:55.2, $5.60), Mcelodian (1:53.3, $17.00) and Mia’s first Time (1:56, $3.00).

Campbell’s six wins came out of only eight starts for the day, giving him a .750 Universal Driver Rating (UDR) for the program.

Campbell’s overall UDR is .422, only .008 behind Guy Gagnon for the North American lead. But that’s really no surprise as he has finished above the .400 mark for the last five consecutive years. In 2017 he ended his campaign with an unbelievable .523 which was far and away the best in North America.

Despite the lofty averages, Campbell is also a win machine. Currently only 159 wins away from the landmark 5,000 plateau, he is currently the leading driver at Plainridge Park with 127 wins, 32 ahead of his nearest competitor. And combined with his starts at all other tracks, Campbell has 268 wins in 1,039 starts and $1.32 million in earnings for 2018. That earnings total is already a career single season high for him.

The Massachusetts Sire Stakes kick off the 2018 season on Monday (Oct. 1) with four...

The $1.5 million Massachusetts Sire Stakes (MASS) kicks off at Plainridge Park next week with the first leg of the 3-year-old trotters and pacers of both genders competing in the first leg on Tuesday (Oct. 2) going for $35,000 per division.

Many of the horses eligible to the MASS have also competed in other racing jurisdiction’s sire stake programs as a result of the resident mare program in Massachusetts. The duality of eligibility is one of the benefits of breeding in Massachusetts along with the growing purse structure year over year.

Here are some of the MASS eligibles who will be probable starters the first of next month and a look at what they have been doing so far this year.

3-year-old pacing colts

Twelve (Shady Character-Sabine Hanover) has had a stellar year on the...