Don't dismiss Karamanos
Jun 25, 2013 23:17:15 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Jun 25, 2013 23:17:15 GMT -5
Nancy - I think Cait may have been right. She knows those mid-atlantic jocks LOL Am glad you bet him (even if C didn't)
Today's DRF:
Don't dismiss any Colonial longshot ridden by Karamanos
By Dick Jerardi
Horacio Karamanos has won more races than any jockey in Colonial Downs history. He is near the top of the standings in the early stages of the 2013 Colonial meet. He has won 1,600 races and $35 million in his career. Karamanos won the 2007 Virginia Derby on 37-1 Red Giant.
Proving once again that the bettors consider this horse racing far more than jockey racing and that just about every race has longshots, London Lane, even with Karamanos and his history, was 50-1 in last Saturday’s Colonial Turf Cup.
It was not a particularly strong renewal of the Turf Cup, being run for the ninth time. The pace did not figure to be very quick in a race where London Lane, who had won just one race in two years, looked like a closer.
So what happens? The 6-year-old London Lane had one horse beaten until the stretch and then blew by the field in the final few hundred yards, winning like it was never in doubt.
Bred by one of Maryland’s most successful racing families, Howard and the late Sondra Bender, London Lane got a career-best 95 Beyer Speed Figure in his 22nd career start. Prior to the race, the horse had only hit 90 on the Beyer scale once in 13 grass tries or eight dirt races.
“The horse always tries,” London Lane’s trainer, Lawrence Murray, said after the race. “It may not always show in the final results, but he never gives up and [the Turf Cup] proved that. I’m not completely surprised by the win. I thought we had a shot to finish in the top three here, especially when I found out Karamanos was going to ride.”
London Lane was 31-1 in his debut and finished fifth. He won his second start at 5-2. His price had never been higher than his first start until last Saturday evening in Virginia.
London Lane was eligible to be claimed in his first two starts for $40,000 and then $25,000. Nobody took him back in the fall of 2009.
The following spring, Karamanos rode London Lane for the only time until the Turf Cup. That was the Federico Tesio at Pimlico. The horse ran a respectable third. He tried five other stakes races, but was never in the money – until he was in for $300,000, the biggest purse he had ever raced for.
Nice timing.
Today's DRF:
Don't dismiss any Colonial longshot ridden by Karamanos
By Dick Jerardi
Horacio Karamanos has won more races than any jockey in Colonial Downs history. He is near the top of the standings in the early stages of the 2013 Colonial meet. He has won 1,600 races and $35 million in his career. Karamanos won the 2007 Virginia Derby on 37-1 Red Giant.
Proving once again that the bettors consider this horse racing far more than jockey racing and that just about every race has longshots, London Lane, even with Karamanos and his history, was 50-1 in last Saturday’s Colonial Turf Cup.
It was not a particularly strong renewal of the Turf Cup, being run for the ninth time. The pace did not figure to be very quick in a race where London Lane, who had won just one race in two years, looked like a closer.
So what happens? The 6-year-old London Lane had one horse beaten until the stretch and then blew by the field in the final few hundred yards, winning like it was never in doubt.
Bred by one of Maryland’s most successful racing families, Howard and the late Sondra Bender, London Lane got a career-best 95 Beyer Speed Figure in his 22nd career start. Prior to the race, the horse had only hit 90 on the Beyer scale once in 13 grass tries or eight dirt races.
“The horse always tries,” London Lane’s trainer, Lawrence Murray, said after the race. “It may not always show in the final results, but he never gives up and [the Turf Cup] proved that. I’m not completely surprised by the win. I thought we had a shot to finish in the top three here, especially when I found out Karamanos was going to ride.”
London Lane was 31-1 in his debut and finished fifth. He won his second start at 5-2. His price had never been higher than his first start until last Saturday evening in Virginia.
London Lane was eligible to be claimed in his first two starts for $40,000 and then $25,000. Nobody took him back in the fall of 2009.
The following spring, Karamanos rode London Lane for the only time until the Turf Cup. That was the Federico Tesio at Pimlico. The horse ran a respectable third. He tried five other stakes races, but was never in the money – until he was in for $300,000, the biggest purse he had ever raced for.
Nice timing.
