Azeri Stakes

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

She's running in the Apple Blossom.

You can pencil her in...in fact, she will be on a plane with her stablemate Heatseeker for the OP Handicap that same day.

Trainers seem to think that by pretending like they have other options to look at - they can sway the racing secretary into assigning a little more favorible weight spread for the race.

One of the funniest ones of late was Baffert refusing to enter Tough Tiz's Sis in the Grade 1 at SA on Sunday because she was assigned 118 pounds, 4 less than Nashoba's Key.

First of all, Bobby, she won a Grade 1 race over the track (albeit over a perfect trip Hystericalady who can barely stand up on synthetics) - second of all, Mr. Baffert, that field was moderate and Tough Tiz's Sis would have been no more than 3/1 or 7/2.

When an assigned 118lbs is enough to get a 3/1 or 7/2 shot scratched from a Grade 1 stake ... you know you are talking about racing in the 21st century.

i figure the logical choice would be to run her there next month--i guess that's why i was surprised to see that they were flying her back...hell of a way to get a break from the secretary.

but i wasn't quite as surprised at that news as i was that ginger bay (6 lifetime starts) is retiring to be a broodmare after her stakes win--a knee chip.

then the news on silver lord, who we all saw try to veer left at the start the other day in the NO handicap...they were hoping to go from there to the oaklawn handicap, but now the trainer is looking for a race-that unless he can find something in a hurry, silver lord will not be in arkansas mid-april...