A few for Oaklawn 3/23

[mysaladdays]

Saturdays can be chalky, or not.  I'm better on the slop/mud days but I will try my hand at the (finally!) nice weather today. 

Some chalk, some longshots.  W/P/S 

R3)  #5  Jubilant Joanie  (5/2) play w/1,7,8,3

R5)  #7 Mamba Out  (7/2)

R6)  #5 Toma Todo (15-1)  

R7)  #10  Funny Uncle (9/2) - this is a claiming race for 3-4 year olds who have never won 2 races.  Who will step up today because it's been a minute since they have won a race.   I always liked Funny Uncle.   I noticed that the broodmare sire is Animal Kingdom----but that's not what grabbed me, but that Funny Uncle was born on the same day as his BMS,  Animal Kingdom.   And even crazier, both of them share MY birthday.  (How I won the KY Derby the year Animal Kingdom won.......it was a hunch bet.   
I had also been looking at #6 Single Ruler (9/5)  because if you remember last year Desormeaux had him running in some prep races last year, including the Louisiana Derby, and he has a lovely pedigree (a Desormeaux special) but it did not interpret onto the racetrack.  You just don't see many Empire Maker offspring (with that nice Storm Cat female side) .  He's with another trainer now.  I also wish this one luck and he is favored to win. 
www.pedigreequery.com/funny+uncle
www.pedigreequery.com/single+ruler2

R8) Hot Springs Stakes, 1 mile. 
Nash, Otto the Conqueror, and Carbone are running in this one. (I hate that they moved the AR Derby back into March instead of mid April /closer to May like it used to be, now it's on the same day as FL Derby and before the Wood Memorial.......used to be after those ).  I don't like Nash in general but if he makes the KY Derby gate that is one that I can just eliminate from the win spot. For this race he is highly favored though.  McPeek also has 2 in here and he is 21% nongraded stakes but I am not using them (#5, #7)  either.  I will use Asmussen's #1 Otto the Conqueror (8-1) or #2 Carbone (9/2) in the win spot.  Bomber longshot is #3 Mena (30-1). I can't resist a Hard Spun and Harry Hernandez is perfect longshot jockey. 

Have a few more but no time right now to post them, if I get chance I will

[mysaladdays]

Mar 23, 2024 13:25:05 GMT -5 mysaladdays said:

R3)  #5  Jubilant Joanie  (5/2) play w/1,7,8,3

Won
5 $7.00 $4.20 $3.00

7 .  $4.40 $3.00

I missed the #2, would have been a much better exotic than exacta

$1.00 Exacta 5/7 $12.80

$0.50 Trifecta 5/7/2 $133.35

$0.10 Superfecta 5/7/2/8 $181.97

[1hooper]

The #10 ran well, got in tight going to far turn.

[mysaladdays]

Mar 23, 2024 13:25:05 GMT -5 mysaladdays said:

R7)  #10  Funny Uncle (9/2) - 

IF I asked, or even begged, for a worse ride, this was it. Horse would have won. He broke out the gates first, like a rocket ship, jockey took him back to 3rd.  (Not sure why)   Then horses started passing him, horse was willing to go thru some manuevering, but every single place the jock took him he got blocked, jock was nt steering him into the holes, at one point, to the point where he would have had to stop.......finally in the stretch, try again, find a seam, Funny Uncle is motoring down the stretch, but that other horse who got a jump on him was still ahead.

Funny Uncle ran 2nd.

I love him. Perfect break perfect stretch run.......I"m not someone who complains about rides but this looked bad, I will rewatch it a few times. .

3 $13.20 $6.60 $4.60
10 . $5.60 $4.40

[mysaladdays]

Mar 23, 2024 15:57:11 GMT -5 1hooper said:

The #10 ran well, got in tight going to far turn.

Maybe I am wrong but he broke fast and first, then jock seemed like decided to hold him back.   He may not have been in tight on that turn if allowed to run his race.  Maybe jock knows something about him that he is better stalking off the pace and didn't want him out in front.  He has run 3rd about 3x now so I guess runnning 2nd was an improvement. 

I'm more of a "let the horse run" person though.  

WHere is Calvin Borel when you need him?   LOL   He won a race there yesterday on a msw.   Who doesn't love Calvin, right?

[mysaladdays]

Mar 23, 2024 13:25:05 GMT -5 mysaladdays said:

R8) Hot Springs Stakes, 1 mile. 
Nash, Otto the Conqueror, and Carbone are running in this one. 

And ran pretty much to the book Nash shined like he did in maiden, Carbone ran 2nd, Otto 4th.



Saturdays are chalky at OP, usually a Cox, Asmussen and/or Diordoro fest.


I assume this was a paid workout/prep for their next prep race.  I wonder where to next? 

[mysaladdays]

Mar 23, 2024 13:25:05 GMT -5 mysaladdays said:

R5)  #7 Mamba Out  (7/2)

R6)  #5 Toma Todo (15-1)  

Forgot to do followup on these 2.

R5 Mamba Out ran 3rd. Nice forward placement but couldn't last. Paid $2.60 to show.

R6 Toma Todo (15-1). I used this horse because last time I saw was really a hard-tryer, and had the sweetest disposition in paddock and also has about 56% ITM over career. Also because of broodmare sire being HORSE CHESTNUT(SAF). I don't know if there are any Horse Chestnut(SAF) fans here, but I have always been. He won just about every G1 there was to win in South Africa, was their 1998/99 South African Triple Crown Winner and
1998/99 Equus Horse of the Year and Champion Three-Year-Old. (I know 1hooper would be a fan of him for sure). Mike deKock brought him to the U.S. for the Broward Handicap in 2000 at GS which he also won (his only race in north america) with Mike Smith aboard.

Yesterday, he ran a nice race (there was a Cox fire-breather in here so...) and he pressed and even led for a bit but couldn't sustain...and after race his little face was just covered up with dirt, but had that same sweet disposition look on his face.

I will play both of these back when in correct placement and better circumstances.  

I don't always have time to give the reasonings for my picks and yesterday was pretty hectic w/all the bigger races at other tracks.   I will lay off saturdays though as they seem to be not *as* fruitful for me as a lot of chalk runs at OP on Saturdays

[1hooper]

A sense of how good Horse Chestnut was.

[tex]

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[eye123]

Mar 25, 2024 13:25:10 GMT -5 tex said:

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[tex]

Mar 23, 2024 16:09:14 GMT -5 mysaladdays said:

Mar 23, 2024 15:57:11 GMT -5 1hooper said:

The #10 ran well, got in tight going to far turn.

Maybe I am wrong but he broke fast and first, then jock seemed like decided to hold him back.   He may not have been in tight on that turn if allowed to run his race.  Maybe jock knows something about him that he is better stalking off the pace and didn't want him out in front.  He has run 3rd about 3x now so I guess runnning 2nd was an improvement. 

I'm more of a "let the horse run" person though.  

WHere is Calvin Borel when you need him?   LOL   He won a race there yesterday on a msw.   Who doesn't love Calvin, right?

I ran into this guy Saturday at Oaklawn.

[mysaladdays]

Still looks like a kid doesnt he. Thanks for uploading this!