\nThe final race on Friday\u2019s big Breeders\u2019 Bowl card is the\nJuvenile Turf. The one mile race is a mixed showcase of hot two year\nolds with those that are just starting to show their potential and\nmay go on to do well in the three year old classics. There are four\ngrade one winners in the field and four horses looking for their\nfirst stakes win, an interesting anomaly. The other six runners are\nall grade two or grade three winners. As mentioned in the headline\nfive of the runners are either by Galileo or his son Frankel, showing\nthe potency of this line. In addition a sixth runner is by Galileo\u2019s\nhalf brother Sea the Stars. While those sires are certainly among\nthe elite in the game we all know that pedigree only gets you so far\nand it does not guarantee that any of these will be the winners. \nLet\u2019s take a look at all the runners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#1 NYSP Stands\t\t\t8\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Breaking from post\nposition one is our first son of Frankel. NYSP Stands has won two of\nthree starts. After an impressive and dominating maiden win in June\ngoing seven furlongs he was immediately jumped into stakes company. \nNearly two months after the maiden win his connections upped the\ndistance by a sixteenth of a mile in a listed stakes race. He got\ngood position early on, running fifth by about four lengths before\nmaking a sustained run around the far turn and coming up just a half\nlength short at the finish line. On shorter rest (only about five\nweeks) NYSP Stands moved up to a mile in the Grade Three Summertime\nStakes. His running style changed drastically as he battled for the\nlead early on before taking the lead around the turn and grinding\naway to a three quarter length win at the finish. The horse he\nbattled early finished a gallant second and the two were three\nlengths ahead of the third place finisher, indicating they are both\nquality runners with bright futures. He ran a very strong 93 SP in\nthat spot, a very good number for this field. NYSP Stands is a\nscratchbred with a Sadler\u2019s Wells x Giant\u2019s Causeway backend. \nSadler\u2019s Wells is the grandsire of Frankel so this colt is inbred\n3×2 to him. Interestingly the superstar mare Enable is bred on a\nsimilar cross, being by Galileo son Nathaniel out of a Sadler\u2019s\nWells mare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#2 My Thoughts\n\t\t\t14\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first of the\nfour grade one winners in the field is My Thoughts. He is also the\nmost experienced colt in the race with seven starts. Four of those\nraces resulted in wins and two with seconds. His only off the board\neffort came when he was fourth in his debut. My Thoughts has never\ntried a route which may be concerning. The son of Dark Angel was\nproduced by a grade two winning Myboycharlie x Forest Wildcat mare\nwho won all of her races in sprints and sire Dark Angel is best known\nfor his sprinting offspring. My Thoughts scored the biggest win of\nhis career in his most recent start, the Grade One Middlepark Stakes\nat six furlongs. In that race he battled for the early lead before\ntaking it around the turn and holding off the closers to win by a\nlength. He ran a 90 speed in that spot, a career best. He showed a\nbit of versatility in his previous start, the Grade One Nonethorpe at\nfive furlongs where he sat sixth early on and was over three lengths\noff the early pace before making a sustained run to lose by just a\nhalf length. In this field that does have several horses who may gun\nfor the lead that ability to rate will be useful for him but whether\nhe can make the same late run going a mile is a question mark. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#3 Neon Galaxy\t\t\t9\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neon Galaxy\u2019s\nowner Nextbonus has two runners in the field (the other being Giant\u2019s\nStarway). Nextbonus is worried about this colt running on just three\nweeks rest but he reminds us of that old saying \u2018no guts, no\nglory\u2019. And certainly that applies to this colt. He\u2019s won four\nof five starts with the capper being his last start and only route,\nthe Grade Three Winter favorite. In that race he really dominated\nthe field. After sitting in second (but five lengths off the early\nleader) he ran down that horse and opened up to win by two and a half\nlengths with a 90 SP. He ran an 88 speed in his previous start, a\nseven furlong listed which he again won by open lengths. His only\nloss came in his stakes debut at six and a half furlongs but the\nfeeling is he learned a lot in that race and it certainly seems he\nwants every bit of that mile distance. He\u2019s a son of the German\nstallion Adlerflug who was upgraded several years back out of a grade\ntwo winning Danehill Dancer x Giant\u2019s Causeway mare. He is her\nsecond foal to win a stakes race out of seven to race. If there is\nany chink in his armor it is that she did her best running under a\nmile although her pedigree along with the stamina Adlerflug provides\nsuggests that a mile should be in reach for their offspring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#4 Angaston\t\t\t\t8\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the speedy sire\nChoisir out of a Zoustar x Lonhro mare comes Angaston. He is another\nof our grade one winners in the field and he scored that win in the\nsix furlong Blue Diamond Road. He was also second in the Grade One\nFirebird at the same distance and has a grade two win going five\nfurlongs. Overall he\u2019s got a 6-4-2-0 record so he is a strong\ncontender. Although his biggest win came at six furlongs his most\nimpressive is probably his last race, the Grade Three Wooden Reserve\nat a mile and a sixteenth. He scored a facile win in that spot,\nsitting third early (over three lengths off the early leaders) before\nmaking a closing rush to win by two and a quarter lengths with a 93\nspeed. He\u2019s less than three thousand dollars away from getting a\nmillion dollar badge, easily the richest horse in the field. He\u2019s\nco-second choice in the field and deservedly so. If he can improve\noff that last race he\u2019ll be right in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#5 Quarter\nDrafts\t\t\t10\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quarter Drafts is an\ninteresting horse. He\u2019s only got one win from five starts but he\nhas twice finished second in graded stakes races. He broke his\nmaiden in his second start going seven furlongs in June, the first\nmonth that races that long were carded. He ran an 82 speed there and\nimmediately jumped into the Grade Three Golden HandGrenade at the\nsame distance just a month later. In that race he battled for the\nearly lead but could not sustain his speed and was run down by fellow\nentrant Giant\u2019s Starway late. Again off only a months\u2019 rest he\nwas entered in the Grade One Blue Diamond Road at six furlongs where\nhe never got close to the early lead and ran a fairly even seventh. \nStretched out to a mile in his most recent race he sat in fourth\nearly on before making a good closing run to be second in the Grade\nTwo Bedford Stakes again chasing home a fellow entrant, Break Away\nDunk. He ran a 92 speed there which is right up there with some of\nthe best in this field. Interestingly that race was run at the end\nof September so he\u2019s got an extra couple of weeeks\u2019 rest compared\nto his previous starts which may be a big benefit for this colt. \nHe\u2019s a son of Galileo out of a graded place \/ stakes winning\nDansili x Unbridled\u2019s Song mare. She did her best running\nsprinting but won her only route start. Her only other foal is the\ngrade one winning Uncle Mo filly Pabst Blue Ribbon whose biggest win\ncame at a mile and a quarter. Second \u2018dam\u2019 is the Champion Three\nYear4 Old of 2014 Quarter Water whose biggest win was the Breeders\u2019\nBowl Turf Sprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#6 Giant\u2019s Starway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second entrant\nfrom the Nextbonus stables is Giant\u2019s Starway. Nexbonus believes\nthis is the stronger of his two competitors for two reasons \u2013 the\nfirst is that he is bred to be a major player and the second is that\nhe has had six weeks since his last start, leading Nextbonus to\nbelieve he\u2019s sitting on a very big race. Giant\u2019s Starway is a\nson of Sea the Stars out of a stakes winning Giant\u2019s Causeway x\nAwesome Again mare who has also produced a grade three winner by\nFrankel from three foals to race. She is a half sister to a grade\ntwo winner by Frankel. This colt has three wins from four starts,\nall in sprints. In his sprint starts he sat midpack early on before\npouncing on the leaders and holding off the closers, winning both a\nlisted and the Grade Three GoldenHandgrenade by a length and a\nquarter. In that second race he ran a very strong 90 SP in July, a\nvery strong number for that time of year. Giant\u2019s Starway had two\nmonths off before tackling his first route race in the Grade Two\nRoyal Lodge at a mile. Instead of sitting midpack he was way back in\ntwelfth at the first call but he had a very strong finishing kick,\ncoming from seventh at the stretch call to finish second by only a\nlength and three quarters. If there are two question marks for this\ncolt it is that he only improved his SP from a 90 going seven\nfurlongs to a 91 going a mile. Also even though his dam is a quality\nmare she did her best running sprinting and that can often transfer\nover to a foal\u2019s preferences (although Sea the Stars does impart a\ngood amount of stamina).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#7 King Zous\t\t\t\t9\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Equinics winner King\nZous is making his route debut in this spot. The Equinics of course\nwas a six furlong race which is the longest distance this colt has\never run. Indeed his last four runs have all been at that distance. \nIn addition to the Equinics win he also took a listed stakes and a\ngrade three stakes. This colt tends to come from midpack early on\nand his late runs saw him win his first four races. He lost that\nundefeated status in his most recent start, the Grade One Middlepark\nStakes. In that race he was a bit closer to the pace early on than\nhe was in the Equinics race running fifth by a length at the first\ncall and finishing second by a length at the finish behind My\nThoughts whom he faces again here. His speed dropped off from a 92\nin the Equinics to an 88 in the Middlepark. He had a two month\nlayoff between the two races and will only have about a month off for\nthis race so perhaps he needed a sharpening race. He\u2019s a son of\nZoustar out of a grade three winning Giant\u2019s Causeway x A.P. Indy\nmare. He is her fourth foal and first stakes winner. She was a pure\nsprinter who won her biggest race at seven furlongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#8 Darkside\nDream\t\t\t13\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second son of\nFrankel in the field is Darkside Dream. He is looking for his first\nstakes win in this spot but he was very unlucky to not win his most\nrecent start. That was the Grade Two Knick Knack Juvenile at a mile\n(his first try at a route) which saw him finish second by a head\nafter making a closing move. He ran a 92 SP in that spot which is\nvery competitive in this spot. What may be his greatest asset is his\npedigree which suggests the mile distance may just be the sweet spot\nfor his family. His dam by Will Take Charge was a stakes winner at\nsix furlongs and a mile but her grade three winning dam by Tiznow did\nher best running at a mile. She is a half sister to three graded\nstakes winners, including a grade one winner who all won their best\nraces at either a mile or a mile and a sixteenth. Darkside Dream had\nfour sprint races prior to his stretch out and he won three of them\nincluding an allowance at seven and a half furlong prep for the Knick\nKnack Juvenile where he ran an 86 SP. His only off the board finish\ncame in a grade three. He doesn\u2019t seem to have a strong turn of\nfoot, he\u2019s more of a grinder who uses his early speed to sit close\nto the front runners and then slowly move up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#9 Break Away\nDunk\t\t\t7\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The favorite in this\nspot is Break Away Dunk. The son of Frankel is out of a grade two\nwinning Street Cry x Danzig mare and is her fifth foal, her second\ngraded stakes winner and fourth stakes winner. His dam ran almost\nexclusively at a mile which is where she scored her biggest victory\nand also was grade one placed. Break Away Dunk has won all three of\nhis starts and his last two starts came at a mile. The first saw him\nsit second but allow the early leader to open up a substantial lead\nbefore making a middle move and putting the field away to win by\nnearly three lengths. That race was a local bred allowance with only\na seven horse field so the quality of competition was dubious. Still\nhe ran a very strong 88 SP and was enough to encourage his\nconnections to jump straight into the Grade Two Bedford Stakes. In\nthat race he was fifth early on but actually closer to the early lead\nthan he had been in the allowance. Again he made a strong middle\nmove and won by a length and a half with a 94 SP. It\u2019s hard to\nplay against an undefeated horse with this type of speed and\nversatility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#10 Exbourne\u2019s\nSiykel\t\t\t13\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten horses in this\nfield have been in the money in 100% of their races and that includes\nExbourne\u2019s Siykel. He owns a 6-3-2-1 record and has earned over\n$400,000. The son of Siyouni is out of a graded placed \/ stakes\nwinning Frankel x Woodman mare and is her first foal. She was a\nstakes winner at a mile and three sixteenths (ironically on the dirt)\nand was three times graded placed at routes including up to that\ndistance. So stamina should be no problem for this colt. Ironically\nthough his worst finish came when third in the one mile Grade Two\nChampagne Mile but that race was back in July which was very early\nfor two year olds to start running routes so it is perhaps forgivable\nthat he was not able to step up in that spot. It was also his stakes\ndebut which is always a difficult step up for a horse of any age,\nparticularly when they skip the listed step. That certainly seemed\nthe case for Exbourne\u2019s Siykel who bounced out of that race to run\na banger of a race in the Grade Two Future just one month later. \nThat race came just a month later but he improved his SP by 7 points\nto run an 89, a career best. Both the Future and his most recent\nstart, the Grade Two Boone\u2019s Farm were at seven furlongs. He\nfinished second in the latter race but he was running back on just\nthree weeks rest and he will have over six weeks rest between that\nstart to this. In his sprint starts Exbourne\u2019s Siykel has sat\nmidpack before making his run but in that lone route he was a bit\nfurther back early. Again with all the asterisks surrounding that\nstart it is difficult to say if the mile distance will see him come\nfrom further back or if he will use his tactical speed early on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#11 Brazen\nNile\t\t\t\t20\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The longest shot on\nthe board may offer the most value of any horse in the race. He\nalready has a grade one win to his credit and he\u2019s never been off\nthe board in six career starts which includes four wins. He earned\nhis grade one back in early August going six furlongs in the More Nay\nStakes where he came from eleventh early on to win by a solid length\nwith an 84 SP. That was one race after a grade three win at the same\ndistance that showed an almost identical run. He was given two\nmonths off after that start and came back to run third in the Grade\nOne Middlepark Stakes, also at six furlongs where he made his\npatented late run only to come up a length and a half short to run\nthird with an 86 SP. He\u2019s running back now on just a four week\nrest which may see him a bitter sharper than in his last run. The\nobvious question mark is can he route? He\u2019s a son of Brazen Beau\nout of a Pioneerof the Nile x Gone West mare. He is her fourth foal\nand second stakes winner (first graded winner). She also has a\nstakes placed offspring. Ironically the stakes winner is by Tiznow\nwho most associate with stamina but the foal is a pure sprinter. The\nstakes placed runner is by Sebring but runs very well at middle\ndistances, as does her fourth foal, an allowance winner by\nDeclaration of War. So pedigree doesn\u2019t give us a great clue as to\nwhat Brazen Nile will do at a mile. But certainly at 20\/1 he is a\nproven class horse and his speeds are competitive here. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#12 Rockbone\u2019s\nIronside\t\t\t13\/1\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three horses in this\nfield are seeking their first stakes win in this spot, the least\nexperienced of which is Rockbone\u2019s Ironside with only four starts\nto his name. The New Zealand bred son of Dundeel out of a graded\nplaced \/ stakes winning Giant\u2019s Causeway x Tapit mare comes from a\nvery strong family \u2013 his second dam is a grade three winner and\nboth his third and fourth dams are grade one winners. Rockbone\u2019s\nIronside has certainly made the most of his four starts as he has\nnever been out of the money. His last two starts have come at one\nmile in graded stakes races. Back in July he was second in the Grade\nTwo Champagne Mile where he stalked the early pace, took the lead at\nthe stretch call but tired late to be beaten by two and a half\nlengths. He returned two months later to finish third in the Grade\nThree Summertime where he was closer to the early lead and again was\nrun down late. He did run an 89 SP in that spot which is close to\nthe tops in this field. He\u2019ll also run back on a bit shorter rest\nin this spot. There is a fair amount of midpack runners here so it\nwill be interesting to see if his jockey sends him early or tries to\ntake him back further to make one big run at the end. If the latter\nhe will certainly be gaining ground late but if he goes too fast\nearly on he may not have the stamina to better his last finishing\nruns. It also may be that this colt prefers sprint distances. \nDifficult call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#13 Exbourne\u2019s\nTurnon\t\t\t11\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exbourne\u2019s Turnon\nand Exbourne\u2019s Siykel obviously come from the same connections but\nimpressively they are also in the same barn. This colt is a son of\nDark Angel based on a Giant\u2019s Causeway x Kingmambo hemare. That\nhorse was only an allowance winner but he won fourteen starts overall\nincluding eleven wins routing. He\u2019s a good example of why taking a\nwell bred solid runner makes sense to pay extra to use as a hemare as\nhis son is already a grade three winner. He earned that distinction\nin his most recent and only route race, the Looking Forward Stakes. \nThat race was run at the end of August and his speed of 94 is among\nthe tops in this field. In that spot he sat fifth off the early lead\nby three lengths before making a sustained run and winning by a\nlength and three quarters. Exbourne\u2019s Turnon\u2019s only non-winning\neffort came in his prior start the Grade Two Vintage Stakes at seven\nfurlongs. That was his stakes debut and as has been discussed\njumping straight from allowance to graded stakes is a difficult ask\nfor any horse. It also represented a big change in running style for\nthe colt. In his two previous races he battled for the early lead\nbut in the Vintage he found himself in seventh at the first call. He\nresponded well in the stretch, closing to finish third beaten just a\nlength and three quarters. It\u2019s always encouraging to see a horse\nchange tactics so drastically and not get discouraged by the kickback\nhe endures for the first time. It\u2019s important to note that in the\nVintage he was a bit further back early on than he would find himself\nin the Looking Forward and that early advantage likely made a big\nimpact on his final finishing positition, although the move to a mile\ncertainly didn\u2019t hurt either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#14 Kick the\nAce\t\t\t\t8\/1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kick the Ace is the\nlast horse in the field looking for his first stakes win. He does\nhave three wins and a second from five starts. Kick the Ace started\nhis career in a residency restricted maiden where he ran an 81 SP\nwhich was very strong for early April. He went on to win an\nallowance as a prep to represent his residency in the Equinics. \nUnfortunately he just never lifted a hoof in that spot, resulting in\nhis only off the board effort. His connections rightfully believed\ntheir colt would improve at a route as he is a son of Galileo out of\na graded placed Kingman x Kingmambo mare. She was best as a two year\nold on the dirt and really came alive when moved from sprinting to\nroute. She earned a spot in the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Juvenile Filly by\nfinishing second, beaten only three quarters of a length in a grade\ntwo stakes but her Breeders\u2019 Bowl run saw her finish tenth. She is\nalso a half sister to a grade one winner by Dansili who did his best\nrunning at a mile and a quarter. So it was no surprise to see Kick\nthe Ace move forward big time when he made the move to a mile. Five\nweeks after the Equinics he destroyed an allowance field at that\ndistance, coming from next to last to win going away by two and a\nquarter lengths. He ran a bang-up 91 speed there, a number he would\nrepeat in his next race, the Grade Two Grand Critter Stakes. In that\nspot he was last early on and again made a big closing run but it was\nnot quite enough to get the win. Often horses who repeat speeds in\ntwo consecutive starts are signaling that they are sitting on a big\nimprovement next out and of the three non-stakes winning entrants\nhere this colt probably has the best shot to change that status in\nthis race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good luck to all! \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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