3/16 (OP): Rebel S. (G2), Azeri S. (G3)
 

9th (5:13) Azeri S. (G3)

1 1/16 Miles | Fillies and Mares | 4 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $150,000

1 Tiz Miz Sue Rocco J S Jr 113 L
2 Holy Heavens Ocampo I 113 L
3 She's All In Quinonez L S 119 L
4 Songs and Sonnets Gomez G K 115 L
5 Keiai Tokyo Homeister R B Jr 113 L
6 Don't Tell Sophia Albarado R J 119 L
7 My Miss Aurelia Nakatani C S 119 L



10th (5:48) Rebel S. (G2)

1 1/16 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $600,000

2 Carve Nakatani C S 117 L
1 Treasury Bill Talamo J 115 L
3 Texas Bling Berry M C 119 L
4 Delhomme Gomez G K 115 L
5 Hardrock Eleven Thompson T J 115 L
6 Den's Legacy Albarado R J 119 L
7 Will Take Charge Court J K 122 L
8 Stormy Holiday Bell D C 115 L
1A Title Contender Quinonez L S 115 L
9 Oxbow Smith M E 122 L
10 Super Ninety Nine Bejarano R 122 L

A-Coupled: Treasury Bill and Title Contender

It Will Be The Old 6/9
Den's Legacy Over Oxbow

5 West coast jockeys are coming to Oaklawn Saturday? Nice to give some other jockeys a chance to win a race back at Santa Anita on saturday. :)

How many left coast horses won the derby in the last 10 years? I think two? I'll have another and the guy that had the crutches horse?

Is that 3 for DWL in there or has one of those horses changed hands?

Just two. Oxbow and Will Take Charge.

What's up with the undercard at Oaklawn on Saturday? Pretty weak.

They save most of the good stuff for the Festival of the South or whatever it is called.

Don't forget Giacomo

Mine That Bird was a Canadian horse as a 2yo and prepped exclusively at Sunland.

I know but it's a month away. How about an allowance race or two? I guess on the bright side the fields are big, which is good.

Eoin Harty and Casner continue to refuse to give Right To Vote lasix. He goes in the last race on that OP card.

I know they're trying to prove a point and all, or something, but that horse would probably benefit from the medication judging by the way he's stopped so suddenly in his last two races.

I guess they're trying not to look hypocritical or whatever... but are you really hypocritical saying you're against something, and using it, if using it is legal, widely used, and prevents a specific horse or two from a disadvantage?

Endorsement has slid into oblivion also, and his performances look like they have a lot to do with him not taking medication.

As far as these races go, Don't Tell Sophia is poised to exploit the overrated My Miss Aurelia. Don't Tell Sophia's last two races were excellent.

My bad...got title contender mixed up with titletown five. Thanks.

I'm waiting to see how many races can go off at the same time or within two minutes of Gulfstream, Aqueduct, Fair Grounds, Santa Anita. I'll set the line at 6.5

What a bunch of whiners. :zz: Unless you live in Illinois, there's not really anything to b.itch about.

I don't mind the cheaper races since the fields are big. However, Oaklawn's wagering menu is deplorable.

I don't know about deplorable, but it's definitely old school. Other than adding rolling DD's and 3 more pick 3's, it seems pretty normal to me. Maybe the $ just isn't there.

It's not normal to regularly have fields of 8+ where there's no superfecta. They only have supers on the 4th, 6th, and 9th on a regular weekday card. On a day like today, they have no super on the 1st (9 horses), 2nd (11 horses), 3rd (12 horses), 5th (11 horses), 7th (12 horses), and 8th (12 horses). That's lunacy.

They have only one Pick 4 and limited Pick 3s, as you referenced. The two daily doubles per day are well behind the times.

Oaklawn's biggest problem is they cater FAR too much to the local customers. That's nice of them, but it ignores racing in the modern day and goes a long way towards why 1/3rd of their handle on weekends is on-track.

They regularly handle less than Fair Grounds and Tampa Bay on Saturdays because they do a HORRIBLE job of managing their post times and have limited wagering options.

I like Oaklawn, but is a grossly mis-managed racetrack.

Fair enough, maybe part of the problem is they run their operation out of Aberdeen Mississippi.

Treasury Bill to win, Super 99 off the board. (Using Carve and Den's Legacy underneath).

Oxbow is very pretty (oh be quiet I had to say that) but today won't be his day (now watch him win). :rolleyes:

I agree with this completely. I enjoy playing Oaklawn when I am on track which is about once a year, but really find it hard to play it otherwise. Would it kill them to have rolling doubles? How about just having a double between the Azeri and the Rebel? Seems to me that modernizing their wagering options would go a long way to increasing handle.

Hopefully, Treasury Bill will only run good enough to get a big-day money jock put up on him. Pity the connections that have this jock on a huge day.

:D
:tro:

"I felt pretty good 100 yards from the wire" Lukas said.

The form of the Remsen horses doesn't seem to match the solid speed figure they earned.

Nice pick

Funny, I was only answering Herk's question about how many Lukas entrants were in the race. If only it were that easy!

Virtually identical final times in the Azeri and Rebel yet a giant difference in the fractional times. Once again, Oxbow didn't win, but ran a superior race to the winner. As for the Azeri, how could a closer overcome the 1:14 1/5 pace and run down the two heavy chalks? My Miss Aurelia just isn't as good as many thought.

And this has been today's example of why context is important. If only the media could grasp this. :D

Tiz Miz Sue's performance was quite alarming. Hard to believe she was able to circle around the two favorites and win, both of them laid way off of the very slow early pace.

I wonder what kind of odds she would have traded at with four furlongs to go if we had In-Race Exchange betting.

Technically speaking, that figure is solid ... the top three just haven't handled the long layoffs.

The Remsen figure was very fast the year To Honor and Serve beat Mucho Macho Man.

To Honor And Serve was a soundly beaten 3rd in each of his next two starts in Derby preps at Gulfstream. He was sixth in the Amsterdam in his next start after that. Ended up winning a pair of Grade 1 races later on, but was certainly no superstar.

Mucho Macho Man was 4th in the Holy Bull as a beaten favorite in his comeback. He was 2nd in last years BC Classic and has proven a very good horse on his day.

In more recent history, there are a lot of form reversals both ways with early season 3-year-olds. We've already had a 100/1 longshot win a major prep at FG. Will Take Charge was beaten 18 lengths by Super Ninety Nine a few weeks ago under a lot of very different circumstances -- It'smyluckyday was nowhere with a clear wide trip in the Delta Jackpot, he's blitzing them in Florida now.

Form can get pretty fickle with these delicate young horses.

http://www.drf.com/sites/default/fil...nd%20Serve.pdf

http://www1.drf.com/tc/kentuckyderby...MachoManPP.pdf

Mountain Town, who finished 3rd in that Remsen, never ran another race.