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Is There a Hidden “Jewel” at FG for CC Day?

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12/2/2023

  10  FG   CC Jewel       

$200.000 (+30.000 for LA Bred)     3yo&Up     1 1/8m Dirt    3yo 121lbs  Older 123lbs +penalties
Additional Requirements: Have started for a claiming price of $35.00 or less since 1/1/2022.

Classic distance, un-classic conditions and again, we can eliminate the LA-bred money, since none of these are from the Bayou state.  We look at the full field of fourteen for the CC Jewel, a mile and an eighth main track test for horses that have started for $30.000 claimer in the 22/23 seasons, and there are some real nice horses in this group, while we keep the weights down to a manageable size. 

How about I take a horse that hasn’t won in the 22/23 seasons as my top pick?  Tehran fits that description as the Mb Stables trained gelding was third in the BC Dirt Mile (GI) but hasn’t had his picture taken since taking down starter Alw types at SA back on the last day of Dec 2021.  Still, he’s been on the board in half of his eight ’23 starts, two seconds and two thirds, and he’s banked $600.000 along the way… nothing to blink at.  He’s been close in his FG starts, and you know me and horses for courses.  Let’s go right next door and put Pompano Beach in the middle of this… he’s changed hands quite a few hands, but Threshold plunked down $6.000, taking him out of a mile and a sixteen race at HST, then ran him back in The Forty Niner (GII) at AQU where he missed by a head at nearly 40/1 odds.  I think they found lightning in a bottle, and he should be in the picture when they hit the wire.   

Here’s The Field –

1
   Everything For Sale    Nakamura Stables    Nieves E   123   7/1   
2
   Twirling Candy    D J C Racing Stables    Hernandez B J Jr   123   8/1   
3
   Ubiquitous    Angelos Stable    Melancon G   123   6/1   
4
   Dragons Teeth    Alydar Stables    Saez G   123   7/1   
5
   Juicetafson    Maxmillion Farm    Murrill M   123   9/2   
6
   Warriors Authority    D J C Racing Stables    Lanerie C J   121   7/1   
7
   Tehran    Mb Stables    Loveberry J   123   7/5   
8
   Pompano Beach    Threshold    Hernandez C J   123   3/1   
9
   Harlem    Fractious    Murray E M   123   4/1   
10
   Sargasso    Spankys Barn    Cohen D   123   6/1   
11
   Ice Wall    Alydar Stables    Parker D L   125   8/1   
12
   Public Information    D J C Racing Stables    McMahon C J   123   7/1   
13
   Wicked Awesome    Night Rider Stables    Morales E   123   6/1   
14
   Itsallupfromhere    Mo Mentum Farm    Guerrero J A   123   8/1

COZMAN    7 / 8                     Willie’s Green Card       7 / 5 / 9

https://simracingform.com/2023/11/30/is-there-a-hidden-jewel-at-fg-for-cc-day/amp/

 

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