{"id":10107,"date":"2012-04-04T19:44:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=10107"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=10107","title":{"rendered":"Golden Ticket Up For Grabs In Wooden Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The march to the Bluegrass Derby is nearly complete with final lock races run this week and next.\u00a0 <\/span>Last week saw Proust take down the Sand Castle Derby and secure a spot in the big race while filly Street Etiquette took the All Saints Derby.\u00a0 <\/span>This week runners converge in California for the California Derby and here in New York fourteen three year olds line up for the Wooden Indian.\u00a0 <\/span>We have two fillies in the field and an undefeated runner but the co-favorites are grade one winner\u2019s Clinton\u2019s Ditch and Silverton.\u00a0 <\/span>Let\u2019s take a look at the field. \u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#1 Canadian Kash is the first filly in the field.\u00a0 <\/span>The daughter of Scat Daddy is facing males for the first time and, perhaps more importantly, routing for the first time.\u00a0 <\/span>She won her first graded stakes in her last start, taking the Grade Two seven furlong Girl Up Front with a career best 100sp.\u00a0 <\/span>Canadian Kash comes from a family of sprinters; she is a half-sister to a graded winner and an additional stakes winner, all below one mile.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#2 Clinton\u2019s Ditch is returning to the scene of his biggest victory.\u00a0 <\/span>He ran away with the Grade One Sparkling Win Stakes here last season before going on to finish third in the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Smart Strike has not progressed as well as a three year old.\u00a0 <\/span>From two starts he has a fourth and a fifth in a pair of Grade Threes.\u00a0 <\/span>He has yet to break the triple digit barrier in speed but Clinton\u2019s Ditch has more back class than any other horse in the race.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#3 Wild Out is the lightest raced horse in the field.\u00a0 <\/span>He\u2019s won his last three races after losing his debut.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Any Given Saturday\u2019s last two wins came at one mile.\u00a0 <\/span>This includes an allowance win with a 95sp and a win in the Image Ralph Dirt Mile with a 96.\u00a0 <\/span>Wild Out is getting a gut check in this race but if he is to move on to the Bluegrass Derby that is exactly what he needs.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#4 Sarcastic Glance is the only native New Yorker in the field \u2013 he is a son of second year sire Justenuffhumor.\u00a0 <\/span>After taking five starts to break his maiden Sarcastic Glance won four of his next five starts.\u00a0 <\/span>He ended 2010 with a victory in the Grade Three Pleasure Stakes before his losing streak was snapped with a third place finish in the Grade Three Giant Slayer Classic.\u00a0 <\/span>He rebounded with a win in the Grade Two Felipe Alou Stakes in his most recent race, running a career best 101sp.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#5 Rock Dancer Ted looked to have a big future ahead of him last fall when he took the one mile Hold the Pickles Dirt Juvenile with a 95sp.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Rockport Harbor took some time off and did not immediately return to the winner\u2019s circle.\u00a0 <\/span>He was unplaced in two stakes races before dropping back to an allowance where he finished third going six furlongs before finally winning a conditioned allowance at one mile in his last start.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#6 Vive Le Rongeur earned his biggest career victory in his last start of 2011 when he took an owner restricted stakes race at a mile and one sixteenth.\u00a0 <\/span>He finished second in his next start, a listed stakes at a mile and three sixteenth but has failed to finish in the money in any of his next three starts.\u00a0 <\/span>Troublingly Vive Le Rongeur has finished last in his two graded attempts. <\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#7 Silverton enters riding a four race win streak which started last December.\u00a0 <\/span>In that skein he started by taking two allowance races.\u00a0 <\/span>He graduated to stakes in February with a victory in the Danzig with Sal Dirt Route at a mile and one sixteenth in which he earned a 103sp.\u00a0 <\/span>Most recently he traveled to Kentucky for a win in the Grade One Immense Derby Challenge by nearly three lengths with a 102sp.\u00a0 <\/span>Silverton was based on multiple stakes winner Band of Silver who did his best running between a mile and a mile and one quarter.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#8 Giant Zen is second filly in the field and owns the second highest lifetime speed number in the field.\u00a0 <\/span>She earned that high sp \u2013 a 105 \u2013 winning her last start, the Grade Two Miss Bonnie at a mile and one eighth.\u00a0 <\/span>Prior to the Miss Bonnie she was third in the Grade Three SilverBulletBeer Stakes.\u00a0 <\/span>She finished last season with her only other stakes victory, an owner restricted race at a mile and one sixteenth.\u00a0 <\/span>She has never faced males before.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#9 Kayaderosseras has three wins from six starts.\u00a0 <\/span>That includes a maiden and two allowance races.\u00a0 <\/span>He was seventh in his only stakes attempt, the Grade Three Gary Asher Memorial Stakes.\u00a0 <\/span>The scratch-bred son of Candy Ride x Sadler\u2019s Wells x Buckpasser is a confirmed closer but the fast pace expected here should benefit him.\u00a0 <\/span>He will have to improve from his lifetime best 96sp to be a factor though.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#10 Big Time Charlie is the big question mark in this field.\u00a0 <\/span>He\u2019s undefeated nine for nine but has never tried graded stakes and has never run a route.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Indian Charlie does have three stakes wins coming at distances between five and five and one half furlongs.\u00a0 <\/span>He also has some of the highest speed numbers in the field, having run a 103 and 104 in his last two starts.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#11 Implausible would live up to his name with a win in this race.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Zabeel has two wins from five starts, both coming in one mile allowances this year.\u00a0 <\/span>He ran seventh in the Grade Three Buccanneer Derby in his most recent start, running a career best 95sp.\u00a0 <\/span>He already has four starts this season including a race just two weeks ago.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#12 Eskidoro is a colt getting good at the right time.\u00a0 <\/span>He has the highest speed number in the field, earning a 106 while winning the Strike a Boundry Dirt Route at a mile and one sixteenth in his last start.\u00a0 <\/span>That was his first race since December when he was third in the Grade Two Eruption.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Eskendereya was also second in the Grade Three Cornstalk last fall.\u00a0 <\/span>The big question for Eskidoro is whether he will bounce off that big return race or if he can possibly move forward and prove himself to be a freak.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#13 Fantastic Ruler won the Grade Three Cryogenics Juvenile at one mile last fall.\u00a0 <\/span>His only win since came in an allowance in January.\u00a0 <\/span>He was well beaten in two graded starts since.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Fantastic Light has run back-to-back 93 speed numbers but he will have to improve upon those numbers to be competitive against this field.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

#14 Bella Sposa is making his third start of the year in this spot.\u00a0 <\/span>Last season\u2019s Grade Three Buckeye Juvenile third place finisher returned to the races after a brief hiatus to run seventh in the Grade Three Scam.\u00a0 <\/span>He followed that with a win in a one mile allowance last out with a 98sp.\u00a0 <\/span>The son of Awesome Again was also second in an owner restricted stakes last fall.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n

Good luck to all!<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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