7/4 (WO): Queen's Plate, Highlander (G2), Singspiel (G3)

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

You know who I like....

Big Red Mike?

(Unless you've heard that Pletcher has that special summer elixir again)

[hockey2315]

I would've guessed Giant's Tomb, but he's not even by you-know-who. . . Does the other you-know-who know that, though?

[RockHardTen1985]

Mobilizer.... Bet him first out at a giant price, ran well. Followed him since and I like him in this spot.

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Mobilizer.... Bet him first out at a giant price, ran well. Followed him since and I like him in this spot.

He's one of the horses that gives a hint of being able to run against the grain.

I looked at the charts of the race entrants and was impressed by BRM's last race. It appears that he set a slow pace but he ran everyone but Mobilizer off their feet early. From the chart it appears that Mobilizer put in a decent run. Then I decided to watch the replay: Mobilizer got an absolutely perfect inside suckup trip and just HUNG like a rat. BRM did all the work and Mobilizer still couldn't get by him -- after cutting the corner and coming INSIDE of BMR for the stretch run.

Now, you could argue that BRM will face other pace pressure in the race and Mobilizer will get an even better setup to run into --- like being able to make a late or last run after getting an even better 'escort' into the lane. But there's no way Mobilizer is better than BRM after their performances in the Plate Trail.

[Alan07]

"He didn't come out of his last work right," said trainer Mike Keogh. "We don't know for sure what the problem is. He X-rayed clean; we think it's something up in his shoulder."

Artic Fern's defection leaves 15 possible starters when the Queen's Plate is drawn here Thursday morning.

http://drf.com/news/article/114262.html

[my miss storm cat]

Embur’s Song will point for Bison City
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June 29 2010

TORONTO, June 29 - Fares Farm’s Embur’s Song, who suffered her first defeat as the odds-on choice in the Woodbine Oaks, presented by Budweiser, on June 13, will now point for the Bison City Stakes here at Woodbine on July 11, rather than this Sunday’s Queen’s Plate.

The $250,000 Bison City, second leg of the Triple Tiara for Canadian-foaled three-year-old fillies, is at one and one-sixteenth miles over Woodbine’s Polytrack.

In the mile and one-eighth Oaks, the Todd Pletcher-trained Embur’s Song, who was making just her third career start, went immediately to the front and led most of the way until caught inside the sixteenth pole by Roan Inish and Moment of Majesty.

Roan Inish is headed towards Sunday’s Queen’s Plate, while Moment of Majesty may also contest the ‘Gallop for the Guineas.'


http://www.woodbineentertainment.com/queensplate/