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Brett Battaglia Turfway Picks Friday, February 26, 2016

IdaBet.com is happy to offer our valued IdaBet players Turfway Park’s selections by Bret Battaglia for Sunday, February 26, 2016.  This 10 card race has been picked apart by Bret Battaglia and he has been pretty hot lately.

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Turfway Park Bret Battaglia Picks Feb 26th

  1. DANCE ELECTRIC was a close second at this level last time out and is the choice to pick up the maiden win here. BLUSH BE GONE drops in class and looks like a contender. SONATA SQUALL has a chance.
  2. SPICE OF LIFE shows some solid efforts at this same level in her last few starts and looks best here. SWAYZE LADY has been second in two of her last three and looks like a contender. ALL ABOUT BROWNIE didn’t fire last time out, but is capable of better.
  3. DELANTERA has been in good form recently showing two wins and a second from her last three starts over the surface here at Turfway and will be tough to beat again tonight. ALYCZARA just missed behind the top pick last time out and picks up Jimenez tonight. TUPELO TIDE moves up in class after an impressive win last and has to be considered.
  4. BONNIE BLUE EYES shows a few decent efforts in her last few starts and looks best against a wide-open field. FAITH AND A PRAYER didn’t fire at odds on last time out, but won before that one and looks like the one to beat. ULURU has run well at long odds in each of here last three starts and deserves some respect tonight.
  5. LADY ANN looked very sharp winning by eleven in her last start on the move back around two turns. A repeat of that effort would make her tough to handle again tonight with Doyle back in the irons. LADY PRADO drops in class after a nice win sprinting in her last race. She shouldn’t mind the added distance and is the main competition. WISH KEEPER is inconsistent, but drops in class and is a threat.
  6. PURIMETT takes a big drop in class...

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8% Buffalo Raceway; Kahoku Wins, Still Perfect At Buffalo Raceway

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HAMBURG, N.Y. — Kahoku made it a perfect 2-for-2 over the Buffalo Raceway half-mile oval on Friday evening (Feb. 26) by going gate-to-wire to effortlessly beat Justgottogetthere by 2-3/4 lengths in the featured $8,200 trot.
In his debut at Buffalo Raceway on February 19, Kahoku (Truman Gale) cruised to a two-length decision in 2:01.3 over a sloppy track. Now stepping up a notch, he had no issues once again in trotting away from his seven rivals by rolling to a 2:00.1 decision on the fast track.
Kahoku, who was racing at Northfield Park, had no trouble in setting the tempo from the pylons. He set steady fractions of 30.0, 1:00.1 and 1:30.0 and faced no opposition in the drive to the wire. It was a battle for the minor spoils with Justgottogetthere (Jim McNeight) rallying for second and Strong Hope (Jack Flanigen) taking third.
Trained by Mark Laidlaw and co-owned by Colleen Girdlestone and Michael Gentner, Kahoku (SJ’s Caviar-Tags Goal) is an 8-year-old gelding that now has put $10,760 in the bank this season and $137,822 lifetime.
Gale celebrated his birthday with a pair of victories while Flanigen and Ronnie Wrenn Jr. doubled. Maria Rice had two training victories.
The best card of the season is on tap for Saturday night at Buffalo Raceway beginning at 6 p.m. There’s $116,500 in purse money up for grabs with...

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Play The Big M; Free Gear Exclusively For IdaBet.com Players

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Free Gear For IdaBet.com Players; Gural Hanover victorious on debut in Big M trotting feature

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Gural Hanover victorious on debut in Big M trotting feature

East Rutherford, N.J. — Stakes-placed Gural Hanover ($2.80, part of entry) made his return to the races a triumphant one in the $25,000 Open Handicap Trot, and all-sources handle topped $3 million for the eighth consecutive card on Friday (February 26) evening at The Meadowlands.
Having drawn the outside post in the field of eight, Gural Hanover took no part in the early pace, retreating to seventh as last week’s Open winner Crosbys Clam Bake (Scott Zeron) sprinted to a :27.2 initial quarter before ceding the lead to Can Do (Anthony Napolitano).  Midway on the backstretch, Yannick Gingras floated the 5-year-old Crazed gelding off the pegs, latching onto the live cover of B Yoyo (Joe Bongiorno) through a :55.2 half and slipstreaming a pressured third quarter before swinging three-wide off a stalled B Yoyo a quarter from home.  Gural Hanover kicked clear in upper stretch as the pacesetters faded, holding sway in the end by a driven half-length in 1:54.4 over entrymates Bourbon Bay (Corey Callahan), who charged willingly down the grandstand side after being shuffled to last, and Opulent Yankee (Andy Miller), who negotiated traffic to stay on.
Ron Burke trains Gural Hanover for the Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, Little E, LLC, and the Panhellenic Stable.
Burke and Gingras teamed up as well in the sub-featured $15,500 upper-level trot, as Its Huw You Know turned in a 19-1 upset in 1:54.2, kicking third-over cover to pass even-money...

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Santa Anita Update For IdaBet.com Players D’AMATO’S IRISH-BRED HUNT COULD BE ‘NOW’ HORSE IN SUNDAY’S $75,000 JOE HERNANDEZ STAKES

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D’AMATO’S IRISH-BRED HUNT COULD BE ‘NOW’ HORSE

IN SUNDAY’S $75,000 JOE HERNANDEZ STAKES

AT 6 ½ FURLONGS DOWN HILLSIDE TURF

ARCADIA, Calif. (Feb. 25, 2016)—Trainer Phil D’Amato’s Irish-bred Hunt, a sharp first condition allowance winner on Feb. 4, will hope to parlay his recent good form over the course into victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Joe Hernandez Stakes for older horses at 6 ½ furlongs down Santa Anita’s hillside turf course.  Named in honor of the original Voice of Santa Anita, the Hernandez attracted a wide-open field of seven.

Ridden for the first time by Flavien Prat, Hunt was attentive to the pace as the 5-2 favorite on Feb. 4, opened up by two lengths crossing the dirt at the top of the lane and prevailed by three quarters of a length in his hillside debut.  A 4-year-old gelding, Hunt is owned by Michael House and is 12-2-5-1 overall with earnings of $91,109.

A close second going a mile on turf in his U.S. debut at Del Mar Aug. 30, Hunt will be making his sixth stateside start on Sunday and will be ridden back by Prat.

A winner of the Grade III Eddie D. Stakes over the course in September, 2014, Tarabilla Farms’ Home Run Kitten never threatened here in the downhill Clockers’ Corner Stakes Jan. 24, but had been idle...

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IdaBet.com Players Note: SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES (Thursday February 25, 2016)

IdaBet.com Players Note: SANTA ANITA STABLE NOTES (Thursday February 25, 2016)

Feb 25, 2016

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Ed Golden Stable Notes For Thursday, Feb 25th

  • MOR SPIRIT COULD WORK SUNDAY FOR SAN FELIPE
  • BAFFERT HAS EYE ON DUBAI FOR HOPPERTUNITY
  • LUCKY J LANE IS FRESH FOR SENSATIONAL STAR
  • SANTA ANITA HONORS LEGENDARY JOE HERNANDEZ
  • CALIFORNIA CHROME ROMPS IN WORLD CUP PREP

 

MORE SPIRIT NEEDED FROM MOR SPIRIT FOR SAN FELIPE

Mor Spirit

Mor Spirit, who was eased in a workout on Tuesday, remains a candidate for the San Felipe Stakes on March 12 pending his next workout, Bob Baffert said Thursday morning.

“I think I’m going to breeze him now on Sunday, and I’ll know more,” the trainer said of the Robert B. Lewis Stakes winner, his leading Triple Crown contender.

“We over-thought it a little bit,” Baffert said, speaking of the aborted drill. “Sometimes I work him with earplugs and sometimes I don’t. I don’t want him to do that much. He has them on when he leaves the paddock, then we take them out before he goes to the gate. It keeps him calm.

“He just lost interest (Tuesday); he’ll do that, but he’s all right.”

The San Felipe is a Grade II race at 1 1/16 miles with a $400,000...

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