richiebee Wrote:
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> Finally, a race card worthy of the Spa, especially
> races 9-13. NY Governors
> have traditionally presented Travers trophy, will
> be interested to see if Don
> Cuomoleone will be in attendance.
>
> R9 Ballston Spa -- no beef with the 3 logical
> favorites here, but will be
> hoping that Ruthenia continues to improve as a
> 4YO. This one had 2 decent
> tries at the Spa last summer when ridden by Alan
> Garcia, who was in a terrible
> funk. Gets Lezcano here, who has clicked with
> Clement at a 30% rate. Full
> sister to the very fast Rutherienne. Potential to
> lose ground here, but maybe
> my best longshot in the sequence.
>
> R10 Test -- Will be using Contested but trying to
> beat her at short odds.
> Second fave Book Review could move forward off the
> pair, and has gotten as
> close as any filly has been to Questing recently 2
> races back. Book Review is
> sired by Giants Causeway, who according to most
> excellent TG sire stats has
> sired 139 stakes winners, only 9 of which have won
> at less than 1 mile. For
> chaos will be tossing in Beautiful But Blue, who
> has dominated NYBs recently
> but could bounce to the Moon off her last. For
> ultimate chaos will be using Md
> shipper Jazzy Idea, who has been much faster on
> turf but could be running late
> here.
>
> R11 Kings Bishop -- Highweights/favorites
> Trinniberg and Currency Swap are
> quite good now. CS is 3/3 at the Spa and worked
> very sharply at Mth last
> Saturday. CS and Trinni have already beaten most
> in this field.
>
> R12 Travers -- Have California colts dominated 3YO
> racing thus far in 2012?
> Does the Pope wear a funny hat? As such, ROTW
> selection Liaison is oh so
> logical here, but I think he will be closer to 4/1
> than his 8/1 ML. The other
> Cali based colt, Nonios, has some karma going as
> Hollendorfer was able to land
> Johnny V, not a bad catch driver. My longshot is
> Stealcase, who is slower than
> these, but is sired by Lawyer Ron, who ran a very
> fast Whitney at the Spa a
> couple of years back; this one\'s dam sire is BC
> Classic winner Cat Thief.
> Tough to bet a colt eligible for NW3 LT in this
> spot, but he should love the
> distance.
>
> Fitty Cent P4 -- 2,4,6,7/3,5,6,8,10/3,9/4,8,9,10 =
> $80
>
> R13 -- Mott\'s Night Site has a huge TG edge over
> these, is the proverbial gift
> horse at ML odds of 3/1. Honorable Mention:
> Reflecting goes out for Shug, gets
> rider change from C. Montalvo to Johnny V.
>
> Best of luck to all.
Expect Liaison will get bet. Those with European access can lock up 8s. It\'s most unlikely to emerge any better, stateside.
