Thursday is First Baby Race day
 

At Santa Anita. Not sure if anyone else has had one yet. 2 year old Cal Breds GOING TWO FURLONGS.

Load up on Wesley Ward if he has one in there :)

Exactly !! That guy owns the 4 furlongs at Churchill

They have run some at Sunland already.

It is probably even money that he will have a horse in on Thursday, this is his money making season. He stops making money once they get to 6f....

seems like he wins a couple of those and then goes about 2 for the rest of the year.

They dont run 4 furlongs at Churchill

My God, give the 2 year olds a break. Let em develop allready. And I'm not talkin about you Mr Shell.

4 1/2 at Keeneland?

more likely

They run 4 1/2 furlongs at CD too:



4 1/2 Fur. Subtle Aly 2 119 :50.48 June 23, 2007 (track record)

We all miss the days when stakes horses races 10-12 times or more a year, raced in campaigns rather than cameo appearance. Well, those horses started racing early in the year as 2yos, a lot of them. Round Table had a couple of wins under his belt already when he won the Lafayette S on closing day at Keeneland in the spring. Affirmed and Alydar were running in May. The same horses who ran in the Hopeful ran in the Futurity and then in the Champagne.

I remember when looking at PPs for stakes races for 2yos at Memorial Day in the early 1970s and they actually had form, not just a maiden win. And guess what? These horses generally stayed sounder and raced longer than today's juveniles.

Ward 2yo Little Yogi wins the first race and pays $17! (of course the 'other' Ward horse (Dulce Maria) was the 6/5 favorite and finished 6th).

He's got two more babies running in today's first at Santa Anita: Bring the Money (5-1) and Dicey Riley (5/2)

And of course I bet the other... Should have dutched.