RACE 3
RACE 4
#2 SMOOTH TALKER should be tough in here for the leading barn. She is back in eleven days following a race against tougher horses at a slightly shorter distance. The conditions today are a bit more in her favor. She can win with one of her honest efforts.
#6 SHAKEITUPBETTY takes a significant drop in class. It seems warranted because she is winless in eight starts this year. She has been chasing much tougher allowance horses for quite some time and gets a significant break against this field of claimers.
RACE 5
#6 Diamond Cut (6-1)
This filly has been idle since throwing in a clunker early in the Del Mar summer meet. She is coming out of a key race and trainer John Sadler can get them ready off a layoff (18%) and jockey Victor Espinoza, who is 20% with Sadler, sticks around.
#7 JADE WITH ENVY is wisely spotted in this California-bred race. She runs for more purse money than when she faced non-restricted claimers several times this year. Her last win came with Bejarano in the irons
RACE 6
# 9 PATRIOTIC DIAMOND is making her fourth career start after running third in her most recent start on October 29th here at Del Mar. She broke inward in the October 29th stakes race going 7 furlongs with Bejarano aboard. Bejarano is back to ride again today and the drop back to 6 furlongs and the drop down to the optional claimer is all she will need to find the Winners Circle again!!!
RACE 7
#2 UP WITH THE BIRDS (4/1) ships in for Graham Motion by way of the East Coast, where he was last seen running second in the prestigious Canadian International (G1) at Woodbine. Three races back, he checked in fourth in theArlington Million (G1), losing to one of today’s foes in the process. He should find this field a little easier than those two Grade Ones, so based on that alone, he’s a major contender. Throw in the fact that Graham Motion just won a turf stakes here on Saturday (with a much weaker-looking horse, mind you), and you’d be foolish not to consider this runner. He’s been winless since July 2014, but he’s danced plenty of big dances while acquittinghimself very well. He’s a major threat for all the money today.
#6 THE PIZZA MAN (5/2) is no doubt a very cool horse who has gone to war against some of the very best turf horses in the world. He’s coming off a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), and before that, he ran huge in two Grade Ones (a head defeat in the Shadwell Turf Mile and a win in the Arlington Million). Mike Smith ends up here, and who can blame him for riding this ultra-consistent animal—check out his 15 career wins in 25 starts; now that is impressive. All that said, he had the lead late in this race last year but was overtaken, losing as the 2/1 favorite. I wonder if a similar fate awaits, since don’t you think he was fully cranked to compete in the Breeders’Cup Turf (G1) and that maybe he’s due for a regression? He is the deserving favourite.He’s a classy, competitive, gutsy runner who has every right to win this race.
LONGSHOTS
#3 DANAS BEST (AUS) (20/1) won a few 12-furlong races in his native Australia but he’s been winless ever since immigrating to the U.S. In his defense, all three of his stateside races have come going shorter distances, so he now finally gets to do what he does best. Even though he just lost to a few of today’s foes in the King Pellinore, do note that he was attempting to close into a paceless race. Before that, he ran on late in the Del Mar Handicap (G2),where he lost to a few more of these in another paceless race. Bejarano bails, and I’m not sure this runner will get a hot pace to close into today, but I can assure you that he’ll be finishing late—and even though he has a majorclass question to answer, I’m a little intrigued by his ability to run on late in this 1-1/2 mile race. this late-runner is proven at the distance and could be sitting on a big race off a brief freshening, especially since he’s always impressed in the mornings.
#8 POWER PED (20/1), the first Neil Drysdale trainee, has been competitive against graded-stakes foes, but he hasn’t really been able to beat them. In fact, his last win came against overnight stakes runners at Turf Paradise—hardly the résumé of a graded-stakes winner at Del Mar. He’s also 0-for-5 on this turf course, having already been beaten by a few of today’s foes. That said, I’ll be the first to admit that I find Drysdale an inscrutable trainer to figure out these days. When his horses look obvious, they never win; when his horses look impossible to me, they run huge. This guy looks impossible, so he’ll probably run huge! He’ll really have to prove he can be better than these today—something he hasn’t been able to do throughout his career—but he should sit a good trip,and he is usually in the mix turning for home.
RACE 8
#5 AND THEN SOME 7/2 races for a claiming price for the first time. He finished fourth in a pair of main track sprints for horses bred in California before faltering in a turf route last out. He adds blinkers today and should be helped by this turnback in distance.
#7 Discreetlyhumorme (12-1)
This 2-year-old went off at 2-1 in a MSW at Los Alamitos and was in third when a stablemate went down in front of him and he fell, too. He resurfaces in a maiden claimer with some decent works for trainer Mark Glatt and jockey Tyler Baze, an 18% combination.
#12 DEPUTY DANE 8/1 is a first-time starter worth a look. An outside post position isusually a plus for an inexperienced horse like this in a one-turn race. The D'amato barn has served warning they should never be ignored and have clicked of late with this apprentice rider.
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#7 Nashoba’s Candy is a huge price of 15-1 on the morning line in Race 3, a MSW event at a mile and a sixteenth over the Jimmy Durante Turf Course.
In that debut, the Carla Gaines trained runner broke slowly, settled off the rail in the back early, moved outside a rival on the backstretch, lost a bit of momentum moving three-wide on the turn, angled back in at the top of the stretch and finished evenly. It was far from a perfect trip that day and yet she still finished within two lengths of the victor. Two back, she pulled quite a bit and was never comfortable when chasing runaway winner from the Richard Mandella barn, Dreamologist. In her most recent start something clearly went amiss as she was eased by jockey Joe Talamo when racing over a GOOD surface at Santa Anita Park that simply did not play to her running style.
#6 UNTOUCHABLE U will race on turf and around two turns both for the first time. She ran well enough when third then second in two main track sprints to be considered a threat in this event. Stevens and Truman deadly combo
RACE 4
#2 SMOOTH TALKER should be tough in here for the leading barn. She is back in eleven days following a race against tougher horses at a slightly shorter distance. The conditions today are a bit more in her favor. She can win with one of her honest efforts.
#6 SHAKEITUPBETTY takes a significant drop in class. It seems warranted because she is winless in eight starts this year. She has been chasing much tougher allowance horses for quite some time and gets a significant break against this field of claimers.
RACE 5
#6 Diamond Cut (6-1)
This filly has been idle since throwing in a clunker early in the Del Mar summer meet. She is coming out of a key race and trainer John Sadler can get them ready off a layoff (18%) and jockey Victor Espinoza, who is 20% with Sadler, sticks around.
#7 JADE WITH ENVY is wisely spotted in this California-bred race. She runs for more purse money than when she faced non-restricted claimers several times this year. Her last win came with Bejarano in the irons
RACE 6
# 9 PATRIOTIC DIAMOND is making her fourth career start after running third in her most recent start on October 29th here at Del Mar. She broke inward in the October 29th stakes race going 7 furlongs with Bejarano aboard. Bejarano is back to ride again today and the drop back to 6 furlongs and the drop down to the optional claimer is all she will need to find the Winners Circle again!!!
RACE 7
#2 UP WITH THE BIRDS (4/1) ships in for Graham Motion by way of the East Coast, where he was last seen running second in the prestigious Canadian International (G1) at Woodbine. Three races back, he checked in fourth in theArlington Million (G1), losing to one of today’s foes in the process. He should find this field a little easier than those two Grade Ones, so based on that alone, he’s a major contender. Throw in the fact that Graham Motion just won a turf stakes here on Saturday (with a much weaker-looking horse, mind you), and you’d be foolish not to consider this runner. He’s been winless since July 2014, but he’s danced plenty of big dances while acquittinghimself very well. He’s a major threat for all the money today.
#6 THE PIZZA MAN (5/2) is no doubt a very cool horse who has gone to war against some of the very best turf horses in the world. He’s coming off a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), and before that, he ran huge in two Grade Ones (a head defeat in the Shadwell Turf Mile and a win in the Arlington Million). Mike Smith ends up here, and who can blame him for riding this ultra-consistent animal—check out his 15 career wins in 25 starts; now that is impressive. All that said, he had the lead late in this race last year but was overtaken, losing as the 2/1 favorite. I wonder if a similar fate awaits, since don’t you think he was fully cranked to compete in the Breeders’Cup Turf (G1) and that maybe he’s due for a regression? He is the deserving favourite.He’s a classy, competitive, gutsy runner who has every right to win this race.
LONGSHOTS
#3 DANAS BEST (AUS) (20/1) won a few 12-furlong races in his native Australia but he’s been winless ever since immigrating to the U.S. In his defense, all three of his stateside races have come going shorter distances, so he now finally gets to do what he does best. Even though he just lost to a few of today’s foes in the King Pellinore, do note that he was attempting to close into a paceless race. Before that, he ran on late in the Del Mar Handicap (G2),where he lost to a few more of these in another paceless race. Bejarano bails, and I’m not sure this runner will get a hot pace to close into today, but I can assure you that he’ll be finishing late—and even though he has a majorclass question to answer, I’m a little intrigued by his ability to run on late in this 1-1/2 mile race. this late-runner is proven at the distance and could be sitting on a big race off a brief freshening, especially since he’s always impressed in the mornings.
#8 POWER PED (20/1), the first Neil Drysdale trainee, has been competitive against graded-stakes foes, but he hasn’t really been able to beat them. In fact, his last win came against overnight stakes runners at Turf Paradise—hardly the résumé of a graded-stakes winner at Del Mar. He’s also 0-for-5 on this turf course, having already been beaten by a few of today’s foes. That said, I’ll be the first to admit that I find Drysdale an inscrutable trainer to figure out these days. When his horses look obvious, they never win; when his horses look impossible to me, they run huge. This guy looks impossible, so he’ll probably run huge! He’ll really have to prove he can be better than these today—something he hasn’t been able to do throughout his career—but he should sit a good trip,and he is usually in the mix turning for home.
RACE 8
#5 AND THEN SOME 7/2 races for a claiming price for the first time. He finished fourth in a pair of main track sprints for horses bred in California before faltering in a turf route last out. He adds blinkers today and should be helped by this turnback in distance.
#7 Discreetlyhumorme (12-1)
This 2-year-old went off at 2-1 in a MSW at Los Alamitos and was in third when a stablemate went down in front of him and he fell, too. He resurfaces in a maiden claimer with some decent works for trainer Mark Glatt and jockey Tyler Baze, an 18% combination.
#12 DEPUTY DANE 8/1 is a first-time starter worth a look. An outside post position isusually a plus for an inexperienced horse like this in a one-turn race. The D'amato barn has served warning they should never be ignored and have clicked of late with this apprentice rider.
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