QUESTIONS ONLY ANSWERED ON THE TRACK.Byline: Kevin Modesti INGLEWOOD - At the historic events, ometimes the most important handicapping takes place after the race has been run. So it is with last Saturday's Preakness Stakes Preakness Stakes One of the three classic U.S. horse races making up the Triple Crown. It is held annually in mid-May at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. The course distance is 1³⁄₁₆ mi (1.9 km). The field is limited to 3-year-old Thoroughbreds. . The handicapping question for posterity is this: Did Red Bullet Red Bullet (foaled 1997 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2000 Preakness Stakes. Bred and raced by auto parts magnate Frank Stronach, he was sired by Unbridled, the 1990 American Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse and winner of that year's win the race, or did Fusaichi Pegasus Fusaichi Pegasus (pronounced [ɸɯ.sa.i.tɕi]) (foaled April 12, 1997) was purchased as a yearling for $4 million by Fusao Sekiguchi. lose it? Their trainers will never agree. Neil Drysdale thinks Fusaichi Pegasus didn't handle the wet track and failed to run his race in the Preakness. Drysdale says, in effect, that Red Bullet caught the Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. winner on a bad day. Joe Orseno thinks Drysdale is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. excuses. Orseno wants to believe Red Bullet beat the favorite on the square and is the nation's new leading 3-year-old. Who's right? The answer comes from looking at the performances of two other horses in the Preakness. As Fusaichi Pegasus lost touch with Red Bullet in the home stretch, he barely held onto second from 19-1 shot Impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. and perpetual disappointment Captain Steve, horses he'd trounced by 5 1/2 and 14 lengths, respectively, in the Derby. If you believe Fusaichi Pegasus ran well and simply got outrun out·run tr.v. out·ran , out·run, out·run·ning, out·runs 1. a. To run faster than. b. To escape from: outrun one's creditors. 2. by an improved Red Bullet, then you also must believe that Impeachment and Captain Steve both took quantum leaps forward and suddenly are the virtual equals of Fusaichi Pegasus. That's a lot to assume. The logical conclusion is that Fu Peg was off his game that afternoon at Pimlico, whether because of the footing or because he needs longer than two weeks between races. This means that - at least for now - Fu Peg is no superhorse. One mark of greatness is the ability to win when conditions are against you. This also means it's too soon to affix affix v. 1) to attach something to real estate in a permanent way, including planting trees and shrubs, constructing a building, or adding to existing improvements. Red Bullet with a No. 1. Can Red Bullet beat Fu Peg on the latter's best day? We can only hope both colts run in the June 10 Belmont Stakes and answer that question on the track. --The three-day weekend: The combination of owner Team Valor, trainer Jenine Sahadi, jockey Chris McCarron and an Irish-bred 3-year-old has clicked before with Santa Anita Derby The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $750,000. winner The Deputy. That will attract bettors to Torgau, a filly making her U.S. debut in Saturday's Honeymoon Handicap at Hollywood Park. The Honeymoon is six stakes scheduled at the Inglewood for Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Memorial Day). ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. a lot about her. She's literally just out of quarantine,'' Sahadi said of Torgau, who won two of six starts in England, including a Group 2 sprint. ``Obviously, we think a lot of her. She had very good form in England.'' The field of nine for the 1 1/8-miles-on-turf Honeymoon includes two fillies who chased Secret Status in the Kentucky Oaks: Classy Cara (third) and Kumari Continent (ninth). --More on the weekend: The richest race is Monday's $300,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap The Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack. Until 1999 it was named the Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap, often just referred to as the Hollywood Invitational Handicap. , which joins stakes named for Laz Barrera and the Willard Proctor on an afternoon honoring some of the track's dearly departed trainers. . . . Dark Moondancer was assigned a race-high 123 pounds, seven more than the other three horses expected for the Whittingham. . . . Sunday's Milady Handicap is expected to match Riboletta and Excellent Meeting - 1-2 finishers in the Hawthorne - and Spanish Fern. . . . Hollywood Park is starting the weekend by offering $1 admission to fans wearing any form of Lakers clothing to tonight's races. As always, the Lakers' 6 p.m. playoff game in Portland will be shown on track TV monitors. . . . Monday, at Belmont Stakes in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Southern California-based Big Jag, Straight Man and the filly Honest Lady will run in the Metropolitan Handicap. --Updates: The Deputy, rested since his 14th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, is scheduled to resume training next week. Sahadi said the July 23 Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park is a possible target. The Deputy is considered a contender for the Del Mar Derby The Del Mar Derby is an American thoroughbred horse race run each year at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The race is open to horses of either gender, age three, willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the turf. on turf in the summer. Two-year-old champion Anees, 13th in the Derby, had bone-chip surgery and isn't expected to race again until fall. Globalize glob·al·ize tr.v. glob·al·ized, glob·al·iz·ing, glob·al·iz·es To make global or worldwide in scope or application. glob , the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay favorite who had to be scratched after being kicked by his escort pony the day before the Derby, returns in Saturday's Peter Pan Stakes The Peter Pan Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses run each year at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. A Grade II event, it's open to three-year-olds willing to race nine furlongs on the dirt. The Peter Pan carries a purse of $200,000. at Belmont and could go on to the Belmont Stakes, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said. --Merger rumors: Churchill Downs Inc. confirmed Thursday it is negotiating a merger with Arlington International Race Course near Chicago. Such a deal would seem to be good for both companies. It would give Churchill another major property to go with Hollywood Park and Miami's Calder racetrack. It would secure the future of Arlington, which was closed for the 1998 and 1999 racing seasons as owner Richard Duchossois sought state economic breaks. The independent-minded Duchossois, who bought Arlington in 1983 and rebuilt it after a fire in 1985, is the question mark in the negotiations. Reports say he would get $80 million and enough stock to make him Churchill's largest stockholder at 25 percent. --Churchill nation: An example of what a company can do when it owns multiple racetracks is Saturday's pick-three, linking races at Churchill Downs, Calder and Hollywood Park. Called the Churchill Downs Simulcast Network Pick Three, the $1 wager will challenge fans to connect the winners of Churchill's 10th race, Calder's 12th and Hollywood's fourth, all scheduled to be run in the space of 23 minutes. A 19-percent mutuel takeout will apply - slightly lower than the 20.18-percent tax on Hollywood's exotic wagers. The CDSN CDSN Churchill Downs Simulcast Network CDSN Conservation District of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas, NV) CDSN Chinese Digital Seismic Network Pick Three is scheduled to be offered every Saturday through the close of the Churchill Downs season July 9. OUT OF THE GATE HOLLYWOOD PARK LEADERS Jockeys (through Wednesday) Wins Kent Desormeaux 13 Corey Nakatani 13 Laffit Pincay 13 Tyler Baze 12 Victor Espinoza 12 Trainers Clifford Sise 8 Bobby Franke l7 Richard Mandella 7 John Sadler 7 Bob Baffert 6 PINCAY WATCH Laffit Pincay broke the tie at the top of the Hollywood Park standings by sweeping Thursday's early double aboard Time is Gold ($4.20) and First Journey ($18.20). His record career-victories total is up to 8,922. THE STAKES SCHEDULE Hollywood Park Saturday $100,000 Honeymoon Handicap 3-year-old fillies, 1 1/8 miles on turf Sunday $250,000 Milady Handicap Fillies and mares 3 and up, 1 1/16 miles Monday $300,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap 3-year-olds and up, 1 1/4 miles on turf $100,000 Lazaro S. Barrera Memorial Stakes 3-year-olds, 7 furlongs $75,000 Willard L. Proctor Memorial Stakes (formerly the Westchester) 2-year-olds, 4 1/2 furlongs. Belmont Park Saturday $200,000 Peter Pan 3-year-olds, 1 1/8 miles Monday $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap 3-year-olds and up, 1 mile. -Kevin Modesti CAPTION(S): box Box: Out of the gate (see text) |
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