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3/1 (TP): John Battaglia Memorial S.

10th (5:22) John Battaglia Memorial S.

1 1/16 Miles (All Weather Track) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 1 Poker Player Hill C Catalano Wayne M 124 Blk-On L 9-2
2 2 Solitary Ranger Geroux F Catalano Wayne M 124 L 5-1
3 3 Canzoni Jimenez A Pletcher Todd A 118 L 4-1
4 4 Emmett Park Wydick L A Pincins Robert J 118 L 12-1
5 5 Red River Rising Vazquez R A Gorder Kellyn 118 L 15-1
6 6 Laddie Boy Castanon J L Peery Chuck 118 L 6-1
7 7 Kids Rule Sarvis D A Stidham Michael 118 L 15-1
8 8 General Jack Davis D Maker Michael J 122 Blk-Off L 10-1
9 9 Empower Rose J McLaughlin Kiaran P 118 L 6-1
10 10 Chester's Park Creed B Godsey C Marshall 118 L 12-1
11 11 Harry's Holiday Prescott R Maker Michael J 122 L 8-1

Exacta / Trifecta / 10 cent Superfecta / Daily Double

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Originally Posted by pmayjr (Post 967537)

Since there's no thread started for the Battaglia Memorial today at Turfway, there's a lot of horses that have potential to move forward via this race. Like a lot of the ALW winners that have been entered in the Southwest and Risen Star should've been entered in here as a litmus test before trying a major prep. Seems like a good test race for a lot of these to see if they go for a major prep later this month/next month.

The one that sticks out to me the most is Poker Player. Catalano has kept him mainly on turf, but with that breeding, I think he could really do damage going long on dirt.

Hey neato! There's a thread now lol (thanks Steve). Anyway, I'm not sure if Poker Player gets it done today, but no matter the result I think Catalano has a lot of options with him going forward.

I'd go Poker Player with Harry's Holiday (sorry if it seems like I have a Harlan's Holiday bias) and Kids Rule underneath. I don't think you're gonna get that 15-1 ML price on Kids Rule. I think he'll be about half that

I'm not familiar with poker player but waaaaay far back..like tiz a minister far back...goof performance for solitary ranger

was at work and finally saw the replay, not sure how the heck Poker Player got that far back. He's usually not THAT deep of a closer. Hopefully gonna chalk it up to the layoff? But I wouldn't mind seeing Channing Hill losing the mount. At what point do you show a little more urgency?