It is a quiet weekend for Graded races in the world of sim racing but New York still will be carding one on their weekend program. The 15th race is The Grade III JFK Street stakes for all horses 3YO+ who will be sprinting 6 furlongs on the dirt track that has come up fast for this weekends racing. A full field of 14 have entred the race that offers up a $125,000 purse.<\/P>
Let’s take a look at today’s field:<\/P>
1)STORM OF SUNSHINE—14\/1—<\/STRONG>mittasille sends this 4 year old colt out of STORM CAT with a record of 12-5-3-2 and lifetime earnings of $54,368. This 263rd divisional ranked colt races for Ldyssecret Stables based in Vermont at The Pastures of Green. This colt was unraced as a 2 and 3 year old and broke his maiden in his lifetime debut this year. He has added 4 more allowance race wins to his record and made his stakes debut last time out where he finished 4th in The Stormy Abdul Challenge in Oregon posting his lifetime best 105 speed rating. This pace presser usually sits a length or two back of the frontrunners and then makes his move entering the far turn. He has posted 4 straight triple digit speed ratings coming into his Graded stakes debut today. The rider for today’s race will be Kiesler (4%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—103<\/STRONG><\/P> 2)KIWI’S FIANCE(KY)—11\/1—<\/STRONG>kbsweet sends this 3 year old colt out of EUROSILVER with a record of 20-4-6-4 and lifetime earnings of $118,559. He is out of the mare HOLLYWOOD CATFIGHT who was 5\/22 at the track and who has 3 foals on record including 1 Graded stakes winner. This 285th divisional ranked colt races for Keely’s Stables based over at Del\/Penn National. This colt was 0\/7 in his 2 year old season and broke his maiden in his 11th start in his career. He has added 3 allowance wins since that time this year and posted his lifetime best 109 speed rating 2 starts back while finishing 3rd in a 6 furlong open allowance in New Hampshire. He has posted 3 straight triple digit speed ratings and will be making his 2nd stakes start in his career, first Graded start, and he was outrun in his black type debut. This colt is a closer who can sit either midpack or at the very back and saves his best run for the stretch drive. He did make his debut against older competition last time out in an allowance race. The rider for today’s race will be Torres (9%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—108.<\/STRONG><\/P> 3)BACHELOR PARTY—13\/1—<\/STRONG>super19 sends this 4 year old colt out of POINT GIVEN with a record of 30-8-5-4 and lifetime earnings of $466,064. This 24th divisional ranked colt races for Super’s More Evil Than The Evil Empire stables based at Del\/Penn National. This colt broke his maiden in his first lifetime start as a 2 year old and that was his only win in 7 starts that year. Last year he picked up 3 more allowance wins and he has picked up 4 wins this year including 2 Graded stake wins in The Grade III Ferris Bueller Stakes in South Carolina and The Grade III Cracked Peanut Sprint stakes in Portugal where he posted his lifetime best 108 speed rating in each of those starts. He has struggled in his last 2 starts ending up far back and hopes to regain his form from earlier this season today.\u00a0 This colt is a closer who sits near the back of the pack early. The rider for today’s race will be Davis (13.2%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—94.<\/STRONG><\/P> 4)DEPRAVITY—8\/1—<\/STRONG>funster sends this 4 year old colt out of RED BULLET with a record of 44-11-7-4 and lifetime earnings of $883,086. He is out of the mare MINESTERIAL who was 4\/37 at the track and who has 5 foals on record, all winners including 2 Graded stakes winners. This 178th divisional ranked colt runs for the Theatrical stables based over at Minnesota Downs. This colt was a 5 time winner as a 2 year old including 2 Graded stake races. He picked up 4 more wins including 2 stakes of which 1 was Graded in his 3 year old campaign, a year where he ended up 14th in the Bluegrass Derby. He has picked up a pair of allowance wins to go along with several top 3 finishes in stakes races so far this year. He posted his lifetime best speed rating of 112 in September while finishing 2nd in The Devil’s Ransom stakes over 8.5 furlongs in the slop in Indiana. This closer will be cutting back in distance for this start today as he has been mainly running in mile and long sprint races over the last 2 seasons. He did win races at this distance in his 2 year old season. The rider for today’s race will be Painter (10.6%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—101<\/STRONG>.<\/P> 5)SHOOT FIRST—9\/1—<\/STRONG>jimdandy sends this 5 year old horse out of CORONADO’S QUEST with a record of 39-7-9-4 and lifetime earnings of $270,993. He is out of the mare TENNESSEE BLONDE who was 4\/33 at the track and who has 5 foals on record of which 4 are winners including 1 stakes winner. This 160th divisional ranked horse races for the unafilliated CVBear Racing Empire. This horse was winless in 4 turf starts as a 2 year old albeit did finish in the top 3 in each of those starts. He broke his maiden on the turf in his 2nd start as a 3 year old and added 2 more allowance race wins that year, one on each surface. He was winless last year and was infact claimed by his current connections for $15,000 in October 2006. Since then he has raced almost exclusively on the dirt and has picked up 4 wins this season including his first stakes win in The Well In The Mine Cap in South Korea over 7.5 furlongs on a good track. He had posted his lifetime best 109 speed rating in the race prior to that one in an allowance sprint win in Dubai. He drops back to a shorter sprint in this start today to hopefully take advantage of his stalking style. The rider for today’s race will be Michaels (10.7%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—106.<\/STRONG><\/P> 6)GRAND ARBITER(JPN)—8\/1—<\/STRONG>lender2 sends this 3 year old colt out of AGNES WORLD with a record of 15-6-3-1 and lifetime earnings of $416,690. This 6th divisional ranked colt races for the Deadinthelane stables based over at the GR Simsters. This colt was a 4 time winner in his 2 year old season including an overnite stakes race in his season finale. He won his first 2 starts of this year including The Grade II Super Bowl Stakes in Indiana but has not found the winners circle in his last 7 starts albeit he has picked up several top 3 finished in Graded races in that time period. He has posted his lifetime best 112 speed rating in each of his last 2 starts in top 3 finishes in 6 furlong Grade I events the most recent being his debut against older company. He is another closer in this race and there will be traffic issues in the stretch drive with whoever getting the clear lane perhaps having the big edge in the final outcome here today. The rider for today’s race will be Lawton (23.3%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—109<\/STRONG>.<\/P> 7)BERMUDA(KY)—27\/1—<\/STRONG>super7 sends this 3 year old colt out of SPEIGHTSTOWN with a record of 17-5-3-0 and lifetime earnings of $372,980. He is out of the mare DIVING FOR SAINT who was 3\/15 at the track and who has 5 foals on record, all winners of which 2 are Graded stakes winners and another a stakes winner. This 36th divisional ranked colt is the second entry by the super stables based out of Del\/Penn National in this race today. This horse started out very well in his career winning his first 3 starts as a 2 year old including 2 Grade III races. He added another stakes win before the end of last year. This year he won his 2007 debut race in The Grade III Special Bid Stakes but has not found the winners circle in 9 races since. He posted his lifetime best 100 speed rating finishing 2nd in an allowance spring in Argentina last time out. This colt is a closer who sits near the back of the pack early. He did not fare well in his only start against older company in his next to last race. The rider for today’s race will be A Williams (12.4%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—99.<\/STRONG><\/P> 8)BLACK BLAZER(KY)—15\/1—<\/STRONG>simsters7 sends this 3 year old colt out of PINE BLUFF with a record of 15-4-3-3 and lifetime earnings of $501,170. This 71st divisional ranked colt races for Lenny’s Evil Empire stables based at the GR Simsters. This colt won his lifetime debut as a 2 year old for his only win in 6 starts last year. He has been experimented at both routing and sprinting and even on the turf but all 3 wins this year have come in dirt sprints with his best speed rating of 113 coming last time out while winning The Hogan Time Cap in Italy over 6 furlongs on the dirt. This will be his 5th Graded start of his career with his best result a 2nd place showing in The California Derby in the slop this past spring. He is another closer who sits at the back early on in the race. He makes his debut against older horses in this start today. The rider for today’s race will be Israel (11.6%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—106.<\/STRONG><\/P> 9)BICHITO HAACK—19\/1—<\/STRONG>bichitos sends this 4 year old colt out of GULCH with a record of 23-5-5-1 and lifetime earnings of $131,486. He is out of the mare SPARKY SAINT who was 0\/3 at the track and who has 4 foals on record of which 3 are winners including 1 Graded stakes winner and another stakes winner. This 236th divisional ranked colt races for Otto Haack out of Venezuela who bases his stables at the Hispano Parlante residency. This colt was a 2 time winner in his 2 year old season and picked up another allowance win last year. This year he has won 2 races including his first stakes win in The Slew Sea Special in Deleware where he posted his lifetime best 109 speed rating over the 6 furlong race. This late closer will be making his lifetime Graded stakes debut and will have to pick up his game coming in off 3 straight dissapointing efforts. The rider for today’s race will be B Williams (9.8%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—92.<\/STRONG><\/P> 10)CASTSKI BIDDER—8\/1—<\/STRONG>cwhisper sends this 4 year old colt out of CAT THIEF with a record of 23-7-3-4 and lifetime earnings of $150,939. This 119th divisional ranked colt races for the Whisper stables based over at the EAAA residency. This colt broke his maiden as a 2 year old in the slop in his second liftime start after debuting on the turf. He picked up 3 more allowance wins last year and has added 3 wins this season including is first stakes win last time out in The Iron Sal Memorial in Georgia where he posted his lifetime best 111 speed rating over the 6 furlong dirt race. He joins a large group of closers in this race today, ensuring an exciting calvary charge down the stretch when the real running starts in this race. The rider for today’s race will be Haffner(7.9%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—107.<\/STRONG><\/P> 11)FUSAICHI PHANTOM—9\/1—<\/STRONG>2totango sends this 6 year old horse out of FUSAICHI PEGASUS with a record of 34-12-6-3 and lifetime earnings of $197,820. This 89th divisional ranked horse races for the GR Simsters division of the Twoofus stables. This horse began his career as a 4 year old in 2005 with 4 allowance wins that year. Last year he picked up another 4 allowance wins and he has 4 more wins this year including his first stakes win in The Roo A.P. Cap in Mississippi where he posted his lifetime best 110 speed rating over the 6 furlong race. He is another closer who will be making his 3rd Graded stakes start this year with his previous best finish a 3rd place in Kentucky. Last time out his rally came up way short and he will have to face the winner of that race as the morning line favorite here again today. The rider for today’s race will be Dirks (11.7%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—104.<\/STRONG><\/P> 12)ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN—4\/1—<\/STRONG>dundey7 sends this 4 year old colt out of FUSAICHI PEGASUS with a record of 20-10-4-1 and lifetime earnings of $422,271. This 14th divisional ranked colt races for Dundey Acres based over at Minnesota Downs. This colt was unraced as a 2 year old and picked up 3 allowance wins in a 3 race win streak last summer. This year he has won 7 races including 3 stakes hilited by The Grade II Booker T Handicap in North Carolina where he posted his lifetime best 114 speed rating over the 7.5 furlong race. He matched that mark last time out when his rally fell a nose short in The Grade II Wild Thing Stakes in N Florida over 6.5 furlongs on the dirt. This colt looks to be the sharpest in the field but as a late closer may run into some difficulties with the lack of any true early speed suggesting the pace may be a bit slow and sluggish here today. The rider for today’s race will be Child (13.1%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—111.<\/STRONG><\/P> 13)COOKIE MAN—12\/1—<\/STRONG>cgk sends this 6 year old horse out of TWILIGHT AGENDA with a record of57-10-7-7 and lifetime earnings of $445,860. This 171st divisional ranked horse races for the Kobra stables based at the NWRC. This horse broke his maiden as a 2 year old in his lifetime debut for his only win in 6 starts that year. He added 2 allowance wins in his 3 year old season and picked up another as a 4 year old. Last year he won 5 races including 2 restricted stakes race and an overnite stakes race in Oregon. This year he has only managed 1 allowance race win but did pick up minor share cheques in both of his Grade I starts, his only 2 Graded starts of his career to date. He posted his lifetime best speed rating of 112 while finishing in a smackdown III resident competition sprint this past July. While usually a pace stalker he did show speed last time out in an NWRC restricted race and just may end up cutting the fractions here today again with no real early speed entered in this race. The rider for today’s race will be Dishman (10.9%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—101<\/STRONG>.<\/P> 14)SAISIR LE BATTEUR—12\/1—<\/STRONG>theshark sends this 5 year old horse out of GONE WEST with a record of 44-14-5-5 and lifetime earnings of $236,185. He is out of the mare CLUTCH HITTER who was 6\/31 at the track and who has 4 foals on record, all winners including 3 stakes winners. This 415th divisional ranked horse races for the unafilliated Binzaman stables. This horse was a 3 time winner including 2 stakes wins in his 2 year old season. He added 4 allowance wins to his record as a 3 year old and picked up 3 more allowance wins last year. This year he has won 4 more allowance races, in his last 6 starts in fact and will be making his Graded stakes debut in this race today. He posted his lifetime best 105 speed rating last time out while wiring a NW1T allowance field suggesting that this one may also try for the early lead with the lack of any real pacesetters here today. The rider for today’s race will be Cunningham (10.1%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—103<\/STRONG><\/P> With the lack of any real front end speed the closers are going to have to work extra hard to come up on top in this race today and while #12 ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN looks to be the sharpest and is in fact my choice here today I am also going to take a long hard look at #5 SHOOT FIRST who may be able to take advantage of being closer to the frontrunners and get up in the stretch drive.<\/P> THEO<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ROCK N ROLL HEAVEN MADE EARLY FAVORITE IN NEW YORK FEATURE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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