12/7/2024

  5  AQU   The Cigar Mile Hcp (GII)     

$500.000   3yo&Up   1m   Dirt   Hcp Weights

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How bad is it when a handicap race carries more weight than the Highweight?  Oh, to be around people that actually understood horse racing.  A field of eight are set to go a flat mile here in Gotham City, and we look at the field for The Cigar Mile Hcp (GII).  We have a pair of BC Dirt Mile (GI) participants, which is an obvious key, but both were double digit odds, although they both ran well.  There’s a ton of class, so let’s get into the meat of the matter.

I’ll take Incinerator as the top choice, not just off of that fourth beaten a half-length in the BC Dirt Mile (GI) but also that win in the Vosburgh (GIII) which tells me he like the going, here at AQU.  Three wins and a second from six seasonal starts… he knows how to get his picture taken.

West Lunacy Party is another that ran in that BC race and has been on the board in all nine of his seasonal starts, showing a 2/4/3 record on the year.  He was third in the Woodward (GII) over this track, so another that seems to like the going here.

I’ll go down to the rail and put Angle Of Attack on my tickets, that one showing four wins from nine starts this year.  He won the Autumn (GII) at WO last out, so he seems to be fine form.  It adds a few pounds to his impost.

Here’s The Field –

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1		Angle Of Attack		Luz International		Achard A		121		5/1
2		State General		Mb Stables		Velazquez J R		119		10/1
3		Louisiana Asset		Big Jd Racing		Alvarado F T		120		7/2
4		West Lunacy Party		Black N Gold Stable		Lezcano J		119		5/2
5		Tiz Trippi		Rock Creek		Husbands P		117		7/1
6		Incinerator		Night Rider Stables		Saez L		119		7/2
7		Eight West Party		TwinTowersRacing		Geroux F		119		12/1
8		Calling All Angels		D J C Racing Stables		Hernandez R M		119		12/1

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COZMAN  6 / 4 / 1       Willie’s Green Card  3 / 5 / 6   

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