1/23 (GP): Holy Bull S. (G3)
 

9th (5:08) Holy Bull S. (G3)

1 Mile | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $150,000

1 Thank U Philippe Castro E 116 Blk-On L
2 Homeboykris Prado E S 122 L
3 Litigation Risk Garcia Alan 116 L
4 Piscitelli Desormeaux K J 116 L
5 William's Kitten Leparoux J R 120 L
6 Winslow Homer Dominguez R A 116 L
7 Wild Lime Lezcano J 116 L
8 Aikenite Velazquez J R 116 L
9 Jackson Bend Rose J 120 L

This is a pretty facinating group for the first major 3-yo prep at Gulfstream, actually.

I would hate to try and make an accurate M/L for this one.

Go JB go.

I need to see the PPs to get a better idea if this race will set up for his style of run. But I know that race in KY in will, so all I ask now is that he run credibly on the scenario he gets now.

Don't worry, there won't be one.

NT

I'm interested in seeing Jackson Bend face a good field like this
Not convinced he wants a classic distance, but he could turn out to be a very nice horse.
Winslow Homer is the horse I'll be taking a long look at in here.

Wonder who will ride Jackson? I imagine Zito will make a switch even though the kid at Calder did a good job.

http://fhiers.blogs.ocala.com/10012/...n-trip-in-may/

Check out the blog comment. Talk about a rub and tug. LOL

Jackson Bend will def. be the chalk, I hope they crush him. I like Dutrows horse a lot in here, with Rick V's getting second at a price.

:tro:

Hasn't Jackson Bend already handled Homeboykris, or was that D'Funnybone?

Or maybe it was both.

Piscitelli is a wild card. I thought he was one to look out for down the road after a nice middle move in the Lane's End Futurity; then he ran a gut buster in the BC with Desormeaux completely revamping his running style.

Seems like some talent is there, but with his preferred style up in the air now and switching back to dirt, I'm not expecting him to light the world on fire in this one, which is coming up salty. A placing should be enough to keep him on the radar.

Winslow Homer is another Fox Hill Farm colt that looks like he might have a chance to make it to Churchill Downs. In the past this barn has had some good three year olds. Only time will tell if Winslow Homer is going to be good enough to get them over the hump at the Derby.

Have Aikenite played in the futures pretty heavy at 125-1. Guess I'll know if it is good value soon enough.

I don't think JB will be that heavily bet based on winning the Calder stallion series for 2-year olds. Many of these are exiting graded stakes races. Even William's Kitten ran an OK 2nd chasing Super Saver towards the end of the KJC at Churchill in November. If JB is the post time favorite, I would guess it would be around 2-1 or 5-2.

There has been way too much talk about Jackson Bend for him not to be the favorite unless a barn or owner or someone goes crazy on another horse.

1 Thank U Philippe Castro E 116 Blk-On L
2 Homeboykris Prado E S 122 L
3 Litigation Risk Garcia Alan 116 L
4 Piscitelli Desormeaux K J 116 L
5 William's Kitten Leparoux J R 120 L
6 Winslow Homer Dominguez R A 116 L
7 Wild Lime Lezcano J 116 L
8 Aikenite Velazquez J R 116 L
9 Jackson Bend Rose J 120 L


Very interesting field!

PPs...

https://www.tlore.net/trainers/pletc...m?page=brisnet

Holy Bull
 

I bet Aikenite in the Breeders Cup and I'm stickin with him here !!!:D

That makes two of us.

Have Winslow Homer at 100-1 in futures...sticking with him

Where is his good dirt race? His maiden race sucked, I crushed Rein King that day and hes turned out to be a slob, then look at the 2 who beat him in the stakes, I doubt this is a real dirt horse, might need turf/synthetics.

*running to the window right now!

Aikenite
 

I was at Santa Anita on Breeders Cup day and I thought he ran a "sneaky good" race since he had some trouble. He has had trouble lines in other races as well.

I like the way he runs and the pattern of his races. He had ascending Beyers into the Breeders Cup. The distance should be perfect. I'm a big "Yes, It's True" fan so I'm biased on his breeding. His works at Saratoga and Belmont (on dirt tracks) were excellent last year. He has been working well at Palm Meadows this year.

I wouldn't call Rein King a "slob" by any means. Although this is probably the most talented group of 3-yr olds to race yet this year, none of these horses ultimately scare me.

My belief is that we have not been introduced to the best 3-yr old colt of 2010 yet. And maybe that colt will even come out of the West.

I think Winslow Homer is the goods in this spot.

Not sure why my dumbass thought this was a 1 1/8 race. I still like Litigation Risk.

I agree, Im betting him to win and keying him in a spread-spread-key-spread pick 4.... Rick V's I think will be ok and I would not be suprised to see him win, I think he's better then Todd's.

Being confused about the distance of the Holy Bull doesn't make you a dumb ass. They have been changing it almost every year for the past five years. In '05 and '06 it was 9f, then I think they shortened it for a year or two, then lengthened it out again, and now this year they have shortened it again.
Its a bit hard to keep straight.

1 box 1,5,8,9

great call!

Still waiting to see his good dirt race?

I thought it was a very solid effort by the top 2 finishers... Jackson Bend was 4 or 5 wide around the entire trip and finished up pretty well considering the other horses that were near the pace folded up...

I am curious how the beyer figure's came back as low as they did..?

In a race at the same distance Quality Road received a 103 beyer when running :25.15, :48.3, 1:12, 1:36.33 unknown variant...

This race went :23.9, :45.9, 1:09.8, 1:36.1 with a track variant of 21...

What was the figure?

Winner received 91 and runner up 90, sorry

Track was very fast today.

For starters ... the Danny L. Miller first-time-starter went 1:08 3/5ths at 6fs earlier on the card.

So variant isn't part of the equation, just how fast other horses seem to be running over the track?

I actually do not think that the track was playing abnormally fast, I think that first timer you mentioned is probably a really fast horse, he did win easily by 5. The other main track races weren't super fast either....

Having him up close early probably wasn't the best decision.

This horse was the workmate of Tahitian Warrior, who won on opening day, and was subsequently sold and is now in Dubai. I thought today's effort might have a bit more impressive in that he did face a little adversity but still kicked away. Regardless, both were solid.

Lets see ... a track record was broken by a 3yo 4th-time-starter who's only prior career win came in a mcl race at Calder.

A horse beaten 7+ lengths at Calder last time out barely won a MSW race in 1:21 and high change over a Michael Mareina trained 17/1 shot first time starter. Curlin won his debut by a city block going 7fs at GP in 1:22

A Danny L Miller trained first time starter was 1/5th of a second off of a 4 year old track record for six furlongs.

Unusual Song ... 10K N2L claimer off of 12 straight defeates ran 1:16 and change in victory.

Yeah - the track wasn't abnormally fast today.

On a track playing very fast, these guys did not come home particularly quick. That said, Tony Dutrow wasn't even pointing to this race and kind of backed into it. Jackson Bend is a very nice horse but the question surrounding both is whether or not they want to go 10 furlongs.

Yea, the final quarter was pretty slow...

Stately Victor, that Ghostzapper cripple that Mike Maker has, he made several lengths up late on Winslow Homer into the teeth of extremely easy fractions in his debut at Saratoga.

Considering how awful Maker is with debuters .. and how productive he is otherwise .. that horse should have been a force.

I think he and Eightyfiveinafifty might have run the two most impressive races by any 2yo male all Saratoga meet...and both came debuting in defeat against maidens.