The National Museum of Racing – Grade II
SAR Race #7 1m InTurf Graded Stake
Purse $500.000 For Three Year Olds.

All the main meet training contenders are here for this race but still with only the six runners it is a disappointing sized field for a $500 grade two. Being from the stables they are however they are all decent types, but this race looks very similar to some of the allowances run at this meet, so I am still a bit surprised that there aren’t more runners willing to have a go at a big purse.
Here is how they line up:

1 Cioppino TwinTowersRacing Franco M 122 —

For a one-race winner this one has been pushed pretty hard at this level and to be fair to him he has coped pretty well and ran some decent races. We can forget his last start on an off track in the IND Derby as that seems to be one of those throw out races, but a more worrying thing is that the last time this one ran on the turf he was beaten 7 lengths into 11th place in the Palm Beach. Again, you can find excuses as he ran from a terrible draw that day and with the ace today, he is certainly entitled to be far more competitive,

2 Details Matter Alydar Stables Geroux F 122 —

Another that has stumbled when upped in grade but had been competitive at lower levels suggesting a change of luck may come with the ideal draw. A winner of three from five on the turf he was game and strong at the end when he won The Singletary Stakes, but his class frailties came to the fore again when running down the field in the BEL Derby last time out. His works are very strong so I am not sure what is stopping him on the track but if he races to those then he will be a good win chance here.

3 Drinkin Creepin Mb Stables Saez L 122 —

The winner of seven from eleven you would expect this sort of horse from the stable and you would imagine that he will start a pretty firm favorite to win. He gradually stepped up in trip this year from a sprinting start his only two failures have both come when drawn wide and, in both cases, he was beaten less than a length so it can hardly be seen as a failure. He was super impressive in the Transylvania and the PEN Mile when making all the running so I would expect him to take up a prominent position and be very hard to run down.

4 Love Of The Derby Mb Stables Velazquez J R 122 —

If you are going to run the favorite, you may as well run the second favorite too as this winner of five from seven certainly has claims here and it would be no shock to see him turn over his stable mate. He was good in the Pennine Road when third but very impressive in the Manila when winning in a sub 1.33 time. Both the stable horses normally run on the speed, but he won’t want them cutting each other’s throats so it will be a delicate balance of instructions here but if that works for anyone it is this trainer.

5 Zakouski One Smokey Stover Lopez P 122 —

The winner of three from six he had been really good at overnight level and then stepped up for an impressive win in the American Derby on an off track proving both his class and his adaptability. His work times are very sharp, so he is not here to make up the numbers so Mb Stables won’t be having everything their own way.

6 Greeks Get It Arindel Gutierrez Mario 122 —

Well, this impressive winner of seven from nine rounds off the field and is another that will be out to thwart the one-two for Mb. He dead heated with Drinkin Creepin in the PEN Mile when the two of them fought out the finish a mile clear of the rest and then finished right alongside the same horse in the BEL Derby. Now the way we work out HRP form is by the draws and this one had good draws in those two and is in the widest today so on that evidence you would have to give Drinkin Creepin the edge this time

SUMMARY

We may have only six horses here but in good old HRP clone like racing there really is very little between them. On works they are all comparable and although their form doesn’t crisscross as much as their older compatriots their winning styles and times are also very similar. It is pretty impossible to settle on one for any good reason so I am going for Drinkin Creepin purely on the fact that I feel the draw will work for him today and let’s face it Mb wins 30% of the time at SAR and he has 30% of the runners here so they seem like good odds to me.

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