Just learned that Julien Leparoux is moving his tack to Cali for "better opportunities." So I did a little research: he's had only 82 mounts so far this year, which is about 15 mounts a month. Can't survive on that. Leparoux IMO has always been considered a TOP 20 jockey but now we have all these young studs kicking him to the backside & working horses in the morning. I also thought of him as a Prima Donna but can't remember an incident when I put him in that category. Maybe it was an interview after he either won or lost a race.
So I looked at some other average jocks & wondered why they have more mounts than him & found Alex Archard with 197, Frank Alvarado 218. Even Dylan Davis who was sidelined for weeks after a spill has 235.
Most shocking to me is that he's only 42 & not an exciting entity right now.
Got 2 favorite horses running tomorrow with Burnham Square & a horse takethecannolis turned us on to in Percy's Bar. Both will be racing @ Churchill.
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Just learned that Julien Leparoux is moving his tack to Cali for "better opportunities." So I did a little research: he's had only 82 mounts so far this year, which is about 15 mounts a month. Can't survive on that. Leparoux IMO has always been considered a TOP 20 jockey but now we have all these young studs kicking him to the backside & working horses in the morning. I also thought of him as a Prima Donna but can't remember an incident when I put him in that category. Maybe it was an interview after he either won or lost a race.
So I looked at some other average jocks & wondered why they have more mounts than him & found Alex Archard with 197, Frank Alvarado 218. Even Dylan Davis who was sidelined for weeks after a spill has 235.
Most shocking to me is that he's only 42 & not an exciting entity right now.
Got 2 favorite horses running tomorrow with Burnham Square & a horse takethecannolis turned us on to in Percy's Bar. Both will be racing @ Churchill.
Did a quick review of Aqueduct & Churchill & found a couple of things interesting.
Asmussen has a possible 5-1 Double tomorrow owning the horses & his son Keith riding. Anyone know how to find out the win % of trainer owned horses? Would love to see that data.
Noticed the name of John Brunetti as an owner of #4 For the Win in the 3rd race & the name rang a bell. He's the son of John Brunetti Sr. who owned Hialeah Racetrack. His kid is sitting on one of the most expensive parcels of land that developers would kill for. She's a 1st timer so who knows? Has a couple of nice recent works.
Race 5 has 4 of the 7 entered owned by the trainers.
Race 6 has an owner I follow in Joel Pilloti & now has his runners trained by Kinnon LaRose. Who? Ok, first of all, he's dude. I haven't heard that 1st name before. So he's taking over the training duties of retiring Tom Amoss & he was left with some fine stock with win % of 19%. He worked as top assistant for Amoss so the transition looks smooth so far. They have a 2 year old filly MSW in #3 Energy Flows. ML 10-1
Race 9 has #5 Percy's Bar the 7/5 favorite. If you haven't see her race check her out. Tons of heart! Playing her with #3 La Rascasse & #7 Point of Reference.
Race 10 has one of my favorite in #1 Burnham Square. Jockey Brian Hernandez is only winning at a 13% rate but he fits this gelding like a glove,
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Did a quick review of Aqueduct & Churchill & found a couple of things interesting.
Asmussen has a possible 5-1 Double tomorrow owning the horses & his son Keith riding. Anyone know how to find out the win % of trainer owned horses? Would love to see that data.
Noticed the name of John Brunetti as an owner of #4 For the Win in the 3rd race & the name rang a bell. He's the son of John Brunetti Sr. who owned Hialeah Racetrack. His kid is sitting on one of the most expensive parcels of land that developers would kill for. She's a 1st timer so who knows? Has a couple of nice recent works.
Race 5 has 4 of the 7 entered owned by the trainers.
Race 6 has an owner I follow in Joel Pilloti & now has his runners trained by Kinnon LaRose. Who? Ok, first of all, he's dude. I haven't heard that 1st name before. So he's taking over the training duties of retiring Tom Amoss & he was left with some fine stock with win % of 19%. He worked as top assistant for Amoss so the transition looks smooth so far. They have a 2 year old filly MSW in #3 Energy Flows. ML 10-1
Race 9 has #5 Percy's Bar the 7/5 favorite. If you haven't see her race check her out. Tons of heart! Playing her with #3 La Rascasse & #7 Point of Reference.
Race 10 has one of my favorite in #1 Burnham Square. Jockey Brian Hernandez is only winning at a 13% rate but he fits this gelding like a glove,
Making a small exacta box with the Ortiz brothers @ Delaware: Race 5 box 6-12; Race 6 box 3-8; Race 12 box 2-9. There would have been 2 more plays for the brothers but Baffert scratched both of his entries. So we end up with a $12 play more for just shits & giggles.
Scratches today @ Monmouth have made the small fields smaller. Tough to make some bucks there today.
At times I'll check to see what jocks got bounced off a horse due to scratches. Franco has 2 fewer mounts @ Aqueduct today. Does that make him any more lively on his other mounts? We'll see...
At Churchill I mentioned Race 5 having owner/trainers entered 4 in the field of 7 until this morning when 3 trainers scratched leaving 4 to race & that sucks. In Race 6 I'm playing #3 Energy Flows who has taken over the barn of Amoss in a nice field of 10 Maidens. In Race 8 the heavy favorite #9 Zambezi scratched making this a small Linda Rice exacta box of 1-10.
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Making a small exacta box with the Ortiz brothers @ Delaware: Race 5 box 6-12; Race 6 box 3-8; Race 12 box 2-9. There would have been 2 more plays for the brothers but Baffert scratched both of his entries. So we end up with a $12 play more for just shits & giggles.
Scratches today @ Monmouth have made the small fields smaller. Tough to make some bucks there today.
At times I'll check to see what jocks got bounced off a horse due to scratches. Franco has 2 fewer mounts @ Aqueduct today. Does that make him any more lively on his other mounts? We'll see...
At Churchill I mentioned Race 5 having owner/trainers entered 4 in the field of 7 until this morning when 3 trainers scratched leaving 4 to race & that sucks. In Race 6 I'm playing #3 Energy Flows who has taken over the barn of Amoss in a nice field of 10 Maidens. In Race 8 the heavy favorite #9 Zambezi scratched making this a small Linda Rice exacta box of 1-10.
Corey Lanarie has announced his retirement at the end of this Churchill meet.
Now he just needs a couple of trainers to set him up with a some winners to send him off to a nice retirement. The dude has won over 5,000 races.
Aqueduct closes June 28th. There's nothing pretty about Aqueduct. It's gritty & functional. She's seen better days so to speak. Any idea what jockey has raced the most over the Aqueduct surface?
The Mig......Richard Migliorie ..he made 2,238 trips over the track.
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Corey Lanarie has announced his retirement at the end of this Churchill meet.
Now he just needs a couple of trainers to set him up with a some winners to send him off to a nice retirement. The dude has won over 5,000 races.
Aqueduct closes June 28th. There's nothing pretty about Aqueduct. It's gritty & functional. She's seen better days so to speak. Any idea what jockey has raced the most over the Aqueduct surface?
The Mig......Richard Migliorie ..he made 2,238 trips over the track.
With Aqueduct closing Sunday, I'm looking for angles on their last race card. This is what I found....
Richard Migliorie has won the most races @ Aqueduct. Angel Cordero is ranked 2nd & Manny Franco is ranked 3rd in wins. Manny has a mount in every race on Sunday & could be in for a 4 or 5 win day.
What trainer has the most wins @ Aqueduct? That would be Todd Pletcher. The 2nd most wins would be Bruce Levine. He has 2 horses running Sunday in Race 3 with #8 Light Man (he's also entered in Saturday's card) & in Race 5 # Twirling Lulu. It seems only fitting for Levine to win with at least one of these.
Pletcher is in the midst of serving his 10 day suspension from a race run by Forte in 2022. Also Poco Lopez will be giving other jocks a chance to win @ Monmouth while he rides every race @ Colonial Downs on Saturday.
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With Aqueduct closing Sunday, I'm looking for angles on their last race card. This is what I found....
Richard Migliorie has won the most races @ Aqueduct. Angel Cordero is ranked 2nd & Manny Franco is ranked 3rd in wins. Manny has a mount in every race on Sunday & could be in for a 4 or 5 win day.
What trainer has the most wins @ Aqueduct? That would be Todd Pletcher. The 2nd most wins would be Bruce Levine. He has 2 horses running Sunday in Race 3 with #8 Light Man (he's also entered in Saturday's card) & in Race 5 # Twirling Lulu. It seems only fitting for Levine to win with at least one of these.
Pletcher is in the midst of serving his 10 day suspension from a race run by Forte in 2022. Also Poco Lopez will be giving other jocks a chance to win @ Monmouth while he rides every race @ Colonial Downs on Saturday.
It is so sad to see Aqueduct closing. Was always one of my favorite racetracks have memories of getting the racing form and scratch sheet on saturday morning and studying all the races especially who Eddie Arcaro was riding. Such fond memories of all the great horses and old time jockeys that raced there. Now a part of history.
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It is so sad to see Aqueduct closing. Was always one of my favorite racetracks have memories of getting the racing form and scratch sheet on saturday morning and studying all the races especially who Eddie Arcaro was riding. Such fond memories of all the great horses and old time jockeys that raced there. Now a part of history.
Nice to see a good turnout @ The BIGA for it's last racing day.
I would think some patrons will play $2 to Win on every horse in the finale & then keep the winning ticket as a memento along with the program.
I've always enjoyed listening to the Mig & he's been great this weekend sharing his BIGA memories. I never "really" realized how good he was. I'm sure he'll have some great Sarasota stories starting next Friday.
Paco ended up winning 4 of the 9 races @ Colonial yesterday.
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Nice to see a good turnout @ The BIGA for it's last racing day.
I would think some patrons will play $2 to Win on every horse in the finale & then keep the winning ticket as a memento along with the program.
I've always enjoyed listening to the Mig & he's been great this weekend sharing his BIGA memories. I never "really" realized how good he was. I'm sure he'll have some great Sarasota stories starting next Friday.
Paco ended up winning 4 of the 9 races @ Colonial yesterday.
Jockey Corey Lanarie ran the last race of his career yesterday @ Churchill after 35 years of racing. Only 1 other jockey has more wins than Lanarie @ Churchill Lanarie & that is Pat Day.
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Jockey Corey Lanarie ran the last race of his career yesterday @ Churchill after 35 years of racing. Only 1 other jockey has more wins than Lanarie @ Churchill Lanarie & that is Pat Day.
There was a bad spill @ the SPA today. Javier Castellano went to the hospital.
Paco's filly #9 I Love Giraffes stumbled a little after the far turn & that had Paco flying off. That brought down #8 Lovely Grey which was David Portnoy's girl. That threw Dylan Davis. Lovely Grey was vanned off. Tyler was also thrown off #6 Smexy. All four of the fillies returned to their barns which is good news for now.
Javier & Dylan Davis could be taken off their mounts tomorrow.
These spills are ugly but it looks like the SPA escaped a horrible PR problem on opening day. A spill involving 4 horses can be nothing other than ugly & ya gotta just turn your head away.
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There was a bad spill @ the SPA today. Javier Castellano went to the hospital.
Paco's filly #9 I Love Giraffes stumbled a little after the far turn & that had Paco flying off. That brought down #8 Lovely Grey which was David Portnoy's girl. That threw Dylan Davis. Lovely Grey was vanned off. Tyler was also thrown off #6 Smexy. All four of the fillies returned to their barns which is good news for now.
Javier & Dylan Davis could be taken off their mounts tomorrow.
These spills are ugly but it looks like the SPA escaped a horrible PR problem on opening day. A spill involving 4 horses can be nothing other than ugly & ya gotta just turn your head away.
yep irad, jose.saez, and the others going to get the dough today. gl today
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