The Alabama
 

Alabama Stakes (gr. I), $600,000, Aug. 18, 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/4 miles, approx post 5:20 p.m.

PP. Horse, Weight, Jockey
1. Moon Catcher, 121, Kent Desormeaux
2. Panty Raid, 121, Edgar Prado
3. Tough Tiz's Sis, 121, Rafael Bejarano
4. Octave, 121, John Velazquez
5. Folk, 121, Garrett Gomez
6. Lear's Princess, 121, Eibar Coa
7. Lady Joanne, 121, Calvin Borel

No Rags to Riches, but at least the rest of the top of the class showed up.

Wow...I go away to my camp on Sacandaga for 10 days...No TV...No Computer.....I come back and Cornholio is ahead in the jockey standings, Kent is in 2nd, another teacher is in space, Karl Rove is out and they are running a 2 mile race at Saratoga. What am I going to hear next? A record crowd on chair day?

folk wont be short this time....

panty ride and prado.

I lost $100 to win on Lear's Princess :(

5% of Octave's winnings will be donated to the Make a Wish Foundation. :)

Go Girl Go!

Lear's Princess training outstanding in the AM - look for a big effort

very nice field. i like octave, moon catcher, folk.

That one I can't figure out...nobody in the field even has remotely gone that distance. :confused:

Just box up Lear's Princess, Lady Joanne, and Folk and you'll get a nice tri with Pletcher not hitting the top three. If Panty Raid somehow gets under 4-1 then throw in Octave for a guaranteed payout.

5,6/4,5,6,7/4,5,6,7

Isn't he also entered on Friday's card? That spot looks better than this one.

OCTAVE - Mother Goose and CCAO winner
Panty Raid - Black Eye Susan and American Oaks winner
Lear's Princess - 2nd in the CCAO
Folk - UAE Oaks winner
Lady Jo Ann - 2nd in Mother Goose
Tough Tiz's sis - Hollywood Oaks winner
Moon Catcher - Deleware Oaks winner


This is what a major Grade I is supposed to look like. Not one Auto toss in the field IMHO. This is one fantastic field.
That's why I torn when Rags opted out. On one hand you want the best filly to run in arguable the biggest race of the year for the 3 yr old filly's but we probably would have been looking at 4 horse field.
Now we have the best of the best well excluding Rags that is.

Oops, I just unknowingly duplicated what you said here on another thread. I agree 100%. His sire and broodmare sire were both G1 winners at 12f (although Majestic Light's was on the turf) and his dam was a G1 winner at 10f. Not bad for this distance. It will be interesting to see what the odds do for this race. I like him, but if everybody falls in love with his pedigree and the odds get crazy on him (like 8/5 crazy) there could be some value elsewhere, especially since I believe this is only his third lifetime start.
Oh right, this thread was supposed to be about the Alabama, but the 3yo filly division without Rags can't really hold my attention this year.

After a quick look at the PP (http://www.drf.com/row/pps/07alabama.pdf) I really like Panty Raid here. She seems to be able to run anywhere on anything, and that 5f in :59.3 on Aug 12th makes it seem that she will like running at Saratoga.

It's not often you'll get 10-1 on Lear's Princess......I'm going with her again

Lear's Princess all the way to the bank. She will love 1 1/4.

I agree but I'll take 8-1, 6-1, whatever she shall be! **** even 5-2.

Okay maybe she won't be 10-1....but her beyer numbers are low compared to the rest of this field so I think 6-1 is a reasonable guess.

True, and it will probably feature more blacktype than the field of the Travers. :mad:

I've got a feeling Panty Raid is going to love the 10 panel distance. I love her in this spot .

I don't see Lady Joanne lasting 10 furlongs. I mean she's by Orientate...and she has a front running/press the pace style.

I also think Folk will be hard pressed by Lady Joanne, Moon Catcher, and Octave. Tough Tiz's Sis might have some speed as well.

I'm liking a Lear's Princess over Panty Raid exacta.

Panty Raid looks like a good turf horse to me. I think she is special enough to keep on the turf. She certainly has a shot here so its hard to turn down huge opportunities.
Octave is tough as well and likely the better of the two on dirt. It will be interesting to see how Octave finishes at 10furlongs.

I'll take Lear's Princess to win and boxed with Panty Raid and Folk. . .

I'm sticking with Octave.
Octave, Panty Raid, Folk box.
Not sure who to throw in for the super.
This is a nice race, really hard to pick.

Can I ask a question about pronunciation? Lady Joanne's name, to me, seems fairly obvious...at least until the announcer (in two races, I assume same track but I can't remember) and at least one of the guys at TVG pronounced it "Lady Joanie"...where are they getting "Joanie" from? Is that seriously it?

how did anyone not hit that trifecta?

lady joanne to lear's princess to octave was an immortal lock!

i thought that tri would pay closer to 17.70 than the 177 it paid!

the bigger lock though would have been the super if they had one in there :(

i have to go see who won the del mar oaks now.

hmmm, didn't know that--it is spelled to be pronounced joe ann.