8/29/2024

  5  SAR    The With Anticipation (GIII)   

$175.000   2yo    1 1/16th m  InTurf     119lbs +penalties

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Well, boys and girls…  I’m bored.  You can only go to the beach so much, you can only pop so many frosty beverages.  Sometimes… sometimes, ya just gotta write one up, knock the rust off and get ready for those big BC races.  So, it’s Thursday graded stakes action at The Spa and we look at a field of eight turf freshmen, set to go a mile and a sixteenth on the Mellon Turf course in The With Anticipation (GIII). 

I’m in no condition to pick winners, but we have The Green Card and Ali here to explain the way of the wager… The Card says to go with Norman Clegg off of that third in the Tyro on wet sod at MTH, last out.  He looks like a horse that wants longer distance and gets that here.  Ali goes with Bitcoin Bobby, newly acquired by Mb… she thinks he sees an immediate returns on the investment. 

In the second spot, The Card goes with Risecock, breaking maiden on the sod in a stakes event, before an even finish in the Sanford (GIII), here at SAR  as Risecock is a scratch, the pick was changed to Bitcoin Bobby.  Ali takes Black Eyed, a last out winner on soggy sod at PRX. 

Let’s see who gets the job done. 

Here’s The Field –

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1		Black Eyed		Riggins Racing		Lezcano J		119		7/2
2		Ranger Dude		Arkansas Elite		Prat F		119		9/1
3		Norman Clegg		The Sidley Stud		Franco M		119		3/1
4		Forever Martian		Mo Mentum Farm		Bridgmohan S X		119		9/2
5		Risecock								SCR
6		Robert Zane		Chili King Stables		Davis D		119		8/1
7		Whiskey Law		Maxmillion Farm		Saez L		119		10/1
8		Bitcoin Bobby		Mb Stables		Gaffalione T		119		9/2

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Willie’s Green Card   3 / 1        Ali Says   8 / 1     

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