early look at santa anita sunday 1/18

[mazeltrick]

the sunday card is a bit of a ho-hummer, but we'll take a couple cracks at it.

r4: samwise. we may get a very nice price on this son of langfuhr in this field of potential monsters, who figures to go much much better with the blinkers on. 'wise showed some early speed before giving up the goose in the lane and now gets the blinks and the very capable ramsammy. the other two i like in here, diamond fury (who ever heard of a $2.7M son of Sea of Secrets???)and the firster hickory pete (mandella rarely works them this fast, so he must be able to run a ton) should also be tough. gamblin', he of the 90 beyer last out, figures the chalk, but this race is a loaded maiden race, so i'd take a price.

r6: hippocrates. hmn, how do we beat wimbledon? perhaps we can't (baffert has been very high on this one for a while), but i'll take a chance this million dollar son of hennesy can improve off his us debut where he broke very poorly and made a decent late run for valdivia. should go much better here with experience.

r9: kenny hawk. the finale on sunday's card sees 20k claimers in various states of disrepair. 'hawk has seen better days but should show speeed and stick in the switch from turf to dirt for the winless mark glatt. at 6/1, i'm in.

that's all for now. good luck.

 

[tjarmitage]

Mazel - do you think Island Fashion is a solid horse to key in the 7th? I was thinking of a few pic 3/4 combinations.

 

[mazeltrick]

sir...,

island fashion will be very very tough to beat, so she's a solid single; but remember, she's everybody's single, too. the only two that look remotely capable of beatin her are victory encounter (tough to win a g2 off the shelf) and personal legend, who with the turf to dirt switch will probably be far far back early and will have to pass every filly to win.

 

[tjarmitage]

Now I see that my key horse (1A) Island Fashion was a late scratch in 7th, leaving me pretty much screwed before the (my pic-3) race even started, ain't that great!.... yuck! ... and guess what?...I lost again.
Oh well! That's OK! I'll be

ready to fire again tomorrow!
Mazel - I see a couple big stakes races tomorrow at SA. And it looks like a decent card in terms of no big favorites... Hope you have a few comments.
If not, I'll venture in alone!