The Short Long Island Sprint
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PP 1: Sender1 will enter Not Fire Not Theft into this race today. Jockey B. Dirks will try to ride this 7/1 shot into the winners circle. Two Grade I’s and a Grade III have highlighted this 5 year old mares last three races. In the Grade I Breeders bowl three races ago, he ran a 106 SP while finishing 9th out of 14 horses. In the Grade I Lightning Lady’s Sprint 2 races ago, his SP continued to decrease with a 92 SP at 6 furlongs. A 13th place finish for this girl meant back to a Grade III race in The Hurricane Ben Handicap. She rebounded nicely in the 6.5 furlong race though running a 112 SP and earning a 1st place finish. B. Dirks has just under 1500 races under his belt, along with an 8.7 winning percentage
PP 2: The 5 year old mare Mau Mau will be in post position number two today. Owner stormborn will put his trust in jockey P. Davis to bring home the win today. This 9/1 shot has bounced around from a Graded attempt last time out to Stakes to Allowance races. Last time out was a 107 SP, 6th place finish in the Grade II Distaff Breeders Bowl. This was preceded by a first place, 95 SP finish in an NW3N Allowance. Three races back, this girl ran in the GR Champs restricted stakes. A 102 SP, and 3rd place was earned in this race. With just over 5000 races under his belt, and an 12.2 Win percentage, I would say she got a nice jockey draw.
PP 3: Jockey B. Child will be riding this 5 year old mare into what he hopes will be a nice graded win after racing her last 5 races in the stakes division. Verdugos hopes La Gran Verduga can start to get her SP’s to start rising again. Her last three races have continued to show falling SP’s. In three 6 furlong stakes races, this 12/1 shot has gone 1st, 3rd, 1st, while earning SP’s of 107,100, and 97. Despite the falling SP’s this horse was riding a 5 race winning streak into the week of the 9th of January. She had a little slip up in a 3rd place finish in the La Deed La Special stakes race. With a win last time out, another win today would start a nice new streak. B. Child has a 14.6 career lifetime winning percentage, while holding a whooping 6200 career races under his belt.
PP 4: Victoryrun is looking for a fresh start when he sends the 11/1 shot Idolatria out for today’s race. Jockey R. Foster will ride this 6 year old mare in today’s race. Coming off of a middle of the pact Grade I Thunderbird Dash performance, this girl hopes to rebound and bring home the bacon here today. With a big 108 SP in an allowance race three races back, this girl moved up to stakes company. A 97 SP, second place finish in the Merkin Special, got this girl the bump to Grade I quality. This girl likes to set the pace, so look for her to be leading the pack out of the gate. Foster has a 9.8 winning percentage with just under 2000 races.
PP 5: Flanking Maneuver gets the call up to Graded duty after posting 5 speed figures in the 100’s in her last 6 races. Appower will put his 10/1 horse and potential earnings in the hands of L. Israel.
PP 6: The long shot in today’s race tries to keep her young winning streak alive. Sitting at just 4 years old, this mare was entered by ssutton. Roman Spirit, the 30/1 shot will get the ride from jockey M. Turner in today’s race. This girl is coming of a 108 SP, first place finish in the Photo Billie Challenge Stakes. An open allowance 2 races back was a victory for this girl, posting a 107 SP. That coming of a 3 month lay off, after posting a horrific 70 SP, 10th place finish, in which this horse was 17 and ½ lengths back. She was doing fine up until then winning a open allowance, stakes, and Grade III race. Turner has 1200 races in his hands, and only a 7 percent winning percentage to show for it.
PP 7: Bar13 will be watching the middle of the gates as his girl Rhapsody Bloom comes as the halfway point of today’s entries. This 13/1 shot will be ridden by R. Bullock. Bullock has an 8.1 winning percentage in 1200 career races. As for Rhapsody, this 6 year old mare has been back and fourth in the winners circle. A race on sloppy dirt last time out posted a 97 SP, third place finish. A winning circle performance 2 races ago earned her a 100 SP. A 107 SP three races ago, earned her a 3rd place finish.
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PP 8: The 5/1 favorite Storm Puppy is our next girl in line. Amandas puts her hopes of a win in the hands of S. Coomer. Coomer has 1500 races and an 8.5 winning percentage in his career. This 5 year old mare posted triple ones for her SP her last time out, earning a 3rd place finish. A 98 SP 2 outings ago earned her a win in an open allowance race. A 108 SP Grade I performance preceded that race, but the girl ended up coming in 4th.
PP 9: Our 9th horse today is the 20/1 shot Not Again Again. Loubrown will send this 4 year old mare out to run with the big girls. M. Humphrey will get the saddle today even with a 6.7 winning percentage in 122 career races. This girl will try to make it 5 in a row after today’s race. With SP’s of 109, 103, and 88 in her last three races, I think she may have a shot at doing that. Granted that it was a stakes race last time out, and 2 open allowances before that, this girl may be a dark horse to win, and if not that, make that trifecta rise.
PP 10: Our first double digited horse of the day is 6/1 shot
PP 11: Cat Around owned by jcasino will be an 8/1 shot for today’s race. The second of the
PP 12: Andermanis sends Batter’s Box to the mound for today’s race. R. Haffner will be riding this 19/1 shot in today’s race. Haffner has a 9.8 race percentage in 2400 career races. In an open allowance last time out Batter’s Box posted a 102 SP, second place finish. A 100 SP, first place finish 2 races ago was preceded by a 90 SP first place finish in an allowance. This girl likes to run with the leader, so she will see if she can’t set the pace and bring home a W in today’s race.
PP 13: Winding down, we have Starset. This 4 year old mare is an 11/1 shot in today’s race, and was entered by seedley2. 9.5 winning percentage jockey R. Michaels will be riding her today. Michaels has just over 1300 races under his belt. Posting a 105 SP, 5th place finish last time out in the Grade III The Hurricane Ben Handicap, this girl ran a gigantic 116 SP in the Grade III Leading Lady. She only managed a 2nd place finish in that one though, and was preceded by a 98 SP, fifth place finish in the Grade II La Zebra.
PP 14: Last but not least we have the 8/1 shot Smoked Ya. Theogbarn will pray for jockey N. Painter to bring home the gold. Painter has a middle of the pack 104 winning percentage in 3600 career races. Last time out was a first place finish for this girl, posting a 105 SP in the Sunny Millions F&M Sprint. This race was preceded by a win and a place in the Capacidad Stakes and the Pine Country Stakes. She posted SP’s of 111 and 108 in those two races.
This looks as though it will be an entertaining race from start to finish. I noticed a lot of these girls like to set the pace early, but we do have a few comebackers in the bunch. If I had to choose, and this is really tough, I would go with 8, 10, 5, 9 with number 6 as my dark horse. I don’t know if Roman Spirit was injured or what, but she could end up making some noise in today’s race. This has been your pre race show. For more pre race, and post race analysis head on over the Black Type Bugler and check out what some of the others have prepared. As for me I am dydalt and I want to thank you for reading today. We hope you choose us again sometime, and let’s let the races begin!!