SAR: Sanford (Thurs.)
 

8th (4:48)
Sanford S. (G2)

6 Furlongs | Open | 2 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $150,000

1 1 Tale of Ekati Velasquez C Tagg Barclay 119 L 5-1
2 2 Sok Sok Bridgmohan S X Asmussen Steven M 119 L 8-1
3 3 Little Nick Desormeaux K J Romans Dale 119 L 10-1
4 4 Ascot Hall Leparoux J R Dutrow Anthony W 119 L 20-1
5 5 Shotten Heimer Dominguez R A Sanders Jamie 117 L 15-1
6 6 The Roundhouse Gomez G K Pletcher Todd A 119 L 12-1
7 7 Fed Watcher Coa E M Violette, Jr. R A 119 L 3-1
8 8 Twenty Eight Hours Prado E S Hough Stanley M 119 L 15-1
9 9 Ready's Image Velazquez J R Pletcher Todd A 121 L 9-5

So....Shotten Heimer is 10-1 in a MSW on Wednesday and Jamie Sanders feels compelled to cross enter here? Wow.

12-1 on Circular Quay's little half bro?!

He was 5th with less than a furlong to go in that MSW race at MTH. He will get another pace setup...but I'm not crazy about his chances.

I agree with you though, 12/1 is a bit high for his morning line. I think the public will bet him down to 8/1 or so.

it looks like she is going to continue the magic up at Saratoga.

The amazing thing is she had two far worse that also nominated to the race. Neither had been within 15 lengths of the winner yet. So she actually showed some restraint just throwing Shotten Heimer in here.

I doubt if I will be playing this race.....but I will be rooting for Tagg's colt. His dam is by Sunday Silence, which unfortunately we just don't see enough of over here.

Remind me to get a picture of Fed Watcher on Thursday. One of the strangest looking colts I've seen.

There is a picture of him at: http://www.pedigreequery.com/fed+watcher
He does look a bit odd.

His Daddy has strange eyes too. I personally think he's gorgeous...

Here's a pic of Sok Sok at the sale in April at Keeneland (nice looking colt):

http://www.finalturngallery.com/g2/v...olt_2.jpg.html

and here is Fed Watcher:

http://www.finalturngallery.com/g2/v...tcher.jpg.html

Shotten Heimer is a pretty nice horse.

To each his own I suppose. I thought his sire was weird looking too. I blame it all on Unbridled's Song. He was an ugly horse, and he has sired a bunch of ugly (not to mention ridiculously frail) horses.
Getting back to the race though, Ready's Image's Tremont makes that 9/5 ML seem about right. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon in that one, and if he starts like that again, the outside post shouldn't hurt him too much.

i think unbridleds song is nice looking---this son of his on the other hand....


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