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Mar 11, 2013 0:16:45 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Mar 11, 2013 0:16:45 GMT -5
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Spring in the Air using OBS stakes as prep race
By Marty McGee
The old “give-‘em-one” strategy can be a bane to a horseplayer’s existence. Trainer intent is often difficult to decipher when a horse is returning from a layoff and obviously pointing to a more important race in the future. Just what result the “prep” might yield is anyone’s guess and clearly makes gambling on that horse a tricky venture.
But when there is no wagering on the prep, then no blood, no foul. That’s the scenario trainer Mark Casse will have the luxury of using to his benefit Monday in Ocala, Fla., when he brings John C. Oxley’s Grade 1-winning filly Spring in the Air off the bench to run in the $100,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Championship for 3-year-old fillies.
There is no betting on the four “Day of Champions” races, to be run over the SafeTrack synthetic surface installed at the OBS facility in 2007.
“We’re pointing her to the Ashland,” said Casse, referring to the Grade 1, $500,000 race on the Keeneland Polytrack on April 6. “This race obviously is a means to an end. If she runs well at Keeneland with this race under her belt, then I’m sure we’d be inclined to run back in the Kentucky Oaks.”
Spring in the Air, away since running fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita more than four months ago, won the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland last October and therefore
is the most notable equine name in the annual OBS series for 3-year-olds. She will face seven other fillies, most notably Toasting and her own Casse-trained stablemate, Spring Venture, when breaking from the outside post under Patrick Hu sbands.
The filly championship is carded as the third race and immediately precedes the anchor and co-featured event, the $100,000 OBS Championship for colts and geldings. Both go at 1 1/16 miles around the one-mile oval.
The roster of horsemen participating Monday is quite impressive, as jockeys scheduled to ride include John Velazquez, Joel Rosario, and Edgar Prado, while some of the trainers shipping in horses are Todd Pletcher, Casse, Mike Maker, Tim Ice, and Eddie Plesa Jr.
www.drf.com/news/spring-air-using-obs-stakes-prep-race
Spring in the Air using OBS stakes as prep race
By Marty McGee
The old “give-‘em-one” strategy can be a bane to a horseplayer’s existence. Trainer intent is often difficult to decipher when a horse is returning from a layoff and obviously pointing to a more important race in the future. Just what result the “prep” might yield is anyone’s guess and clearly makes gambling on that horse a tricky venture.
But when there is no wagering on the prep, then no blood, no foul. That’s the scenario trainer Mark Casse will have the luxury of using to his benefit Monday in Ocala, Fla., when he brings John C. Oxley’s Grade 1-winning filly Spring in the Air off the bench to run in the $100,000 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Championship for 3-year-old fillies.
There is no betting on the four “Day of Champions” races, to be run over the SafeTrack synthetic surface installed at the OBS facility in 2007.
“We’re pointing her to the Ashland,” said Casse, referring to the Grade 1, $500,000 race on the Keeneland Polytrack on April 6. “This race obviously is a means to an end. If she runs well at Keeneland with this race under her belt, then I’m sure we’d be inclined to run back in the Kentucky Oaks.”
Spring in the Air, away since running fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita more than four months ago, won the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland last October and therefore
is the most notable equine name in the annual OBS series for 3-year-olds. She will face seven other fillies, most notably Toasting and her own Casse-trained stablemate, Spring Venture, when breaking from the outside post under Patrick Hu sbands.
The filly championship is carded as the third race and immediately precedes the anchor and co-featured event, the $100,000 OBS Championship for colts and geldings. Both go at 1 1/16 miles around the one-mile oval.
The roster of horsemen participating Monday is quite impressive, as jockeys scheduled to ride include John Velazquez, Joel Rosario, and Edgar Prado, while some of the trainers shipping in horses are Todd Pletcher, Casse, Mike Maker, Tim Ice, and Eddie Plesa Jr.
www.drf.com/news/spring-air-using-obs-stakes-prep-race
