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Weekend Stakes Action at Aqueduct and Gulfstream
We hope you are over your Thanksgiving food coma and are ready to sink your teeth into some racing action this weekend.
At
Aqueduct on
Saturday:
The $750,000
Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) is for 3 year olds and up at a flat mile on the dirt. 11 have entered. Jason Servis'
Maximum Security (3-2) is the horse with a target on his back. Chad Brown's
Looking at Bikinis (15-1) is working bullets for this with new jock Jose Ortiz. May upset at huge odds.
The $250,000
Demoiselle Stakes (G2) is for 2 year old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on the dirt. Billy Mott's
Lake Avenue (9-2) broke her maiden in open lengths in her last. Mark Henning's
Maedean (7-2) won a stakes in her last easily.
At
Gulfstream on
Saturday:.
The highlight of the Claiming Crown Series for Florida-breds is the $200,000
Claiming Crown Jewel, for 3 year olds and up at 1 1/8 miles on the dirt. Jason Servis'
Leitone (2-1) looks like the one to beat.
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"Winning Ponies" Radio Show - Thursday's Episode
"Winning Ponies" Welcomes Trainer Tom Drury and eMatings.com President Sid Fernando
Tune in on Thursday nights at 8pm Eastern and listen LIVE!
After Tom's d'Etat crossed the finish line first in the Gr. 1 600,000 Clark Stakes at Churchill, there was one person missing from the winner's circle photo - trainer Tommy Drury. Al Stall, Jr. is the actual trainer of Tom's d'Etat, but
Tom Drury is the 'Behind the Scenes' conditioner who adds Stall and a variety of other high-profile trainers to his list of clients. Tommy will discuss his life as a trainer, the advantages of working at the Skylight Training Center and his techniques of developing horses like Eclipse Award winner Hansen among others.
Sid Fernando is president of eMatings.com and Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc., owner of eNicks. A former bloodstock editor and columnist at DRF, Sid is an internationally known pedigree writer whose articles have appeared in racing and breeding publications around the world. Sid will talk about the creation and evolution of the Werk 'Nicking' system and how it has become an invaluable tool in breeding and buying thoroughbreds.
After Tom's d'Etat crossed the finish line first in the Gr. 1 600,000 Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs, there was one person missing from the winner's circle photo - trainer
Tommy Drury. Al Stall, Jr. is the actual trainer of Tom's d'Etat, but Drury is the "Behind the Scenes" conditioner who adds Stall and a variety of other high-profile trainers to his list of clients. Through the back roads of rural Highway 42, just past Goshen, Ky., lies Skylight Training Center - the place trainer Tommy Drury has called home for more than 30 years. Drury not only cares for horses returning to the races and younger horses, but his on-track career has skyrocketed over the last decade with the 48-year-old conditioner winning at a 23 percent clip.
Sid Fernando is president of eMatings.com and Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc. (WTC), owner of eNicks. A former bloodstock editor and columnist at Daily Racing Form, Sid is an internationally known pedigree writer whose articles have appeared in leading thoroughbred racing and breeding publications around the world, including Owner-Breeder, Racing Post, North American Trainer, The Thoroughbred Times, Thoroughbred Daily News, Turf Diario, and Pacemaker. Sid also is an accomplished youth travel baseball manager. In 2007 his 10U Brooklyn Bulldogs travel team journeyed south to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where they won the Triple Crown Summer Nationals, a national championship. The 2010 squad played 14U in the spring as a predominantly 13U squad, and at the end of July, 2010, Sid retired from more than a decade of coaching. He is now fully immersed in breeding and racing. A 1982 graduate of Vassar College with a degree in Art History, Sid lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife of 25 years, Cynthia, a longtime criminal defense attorney and public defender who now clerks for a NY Supreme Court judge; and his baseball-playing son Joe, 16. His son John, three years older than Joe, died on March 19, 2011, at age 17.
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Betting Buddies
by Ed Meyer
The best part of being a handicapper were the friendships made along the way. - Feel free to quote me if you wish. Not that "Papa" Hemingway would be jealous or Bukowski angry. - It was the friendships that made the cold nights watching cheap Thoroughbreds seem like the Kentucky Derby.
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Recent Big 'Uns
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Upcoming Weekend Stakes Races
Saturday, December 7th
- Aqueduct Cigar Mile H. (G1) $ 750,000
- Aqueduct Demoiselle S. (G2) $ 250,000
- Aqueduct Go For Wand H. (G3) $ 250,000
- Aqueduct Remsen S. (G2) $ 250,000
- Aqueduct Fall Highweight H. (G3) $ 200,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Jewel $ 200,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Emerald $ 125,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Tiara $ 125,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Canterbury $ 110,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Distaf Dash $ 110,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Express $ 110,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Glass Slipr $ 110,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Iron Horse $ 110,000
- Gulfstream Claiming Crown Rapid Trans $ 110,000
- Los Alamitos Starlet S. (G1) $ 300,000
- Los Alamitos Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) $ 200,000
- Laurel MD Juvenile Futurity $ 100,000
- Laurel MD Juvenile Filly Champ $ 100,000
- Parx Pennsylvania Nursery S. $ 100,000
- Tampa Bay Inaugural S. $ 100,000
- Tampa Bay Sandpiper S. $ 100,000
Sunday, December 8th
- Aqueduct Garland of Roses S. $ 100,000
- Gulfstream Caribbean Classic S. $ 300,000
- Gulfstream Caribbean Gulf Speed S. $ 100,000
- Gulfstream Confraternity Caribbean Cp $ 100,000
- Los Alamitos Bayakoa S. (G3) $ 100,000
- Woodbine Ontario Lassie S. $ 125,000
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Testimonials
"Dear Winning Ponies,
Another bone crushing win has been delivered by your service ($25 Super paid over $87,000!).
I took your Top Horse - Maximum Security for the Florida Derby and put it on top of the next four horses and connected for a big win.
Made a mistake by not betting the exacta or the trifecta, which paid out very nice, but this will have to suffice for now :-)
I'm pretty sure we killed the payout and were paid half of the pool for all superfectas." - Mark A., Fort Lauderdale, FL 3/30/19
"Love the winning ponies in the mud angle this time of year just hit early pic 4 as well as 20 exb in the 3rd and in the second 5 came second woulda had 20 on the 98 dad but can't win em all and I woulda took out the pic 4 pool X 2$$$$$$$ Thanks WP" - John O., Grand Island, NY 7/25/17
"Winning Ponies are on fire at Retama Park. Hit every double so far. one of them paid 270.00 for two bucks.Five in a row so far." - Michael P., Tulsa, OK 7/1/17
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