Okay, okay, we know. It may all be innocent enough and we hope it is. But the wagering in Sunday's 6th race at Santa Anita on Sunday stinks to high heaven. It involves Bad Boy, the 7-year-old gelding that was on a five race win streak and going for new connections off the claim on Sunday. Bad Boy, opened at 1/9 and drifted up to 1/5 where he remained for most of the wagering. However, a few minutes before post, he drifted upward as high as 4/1. Then, when the gates opened he was hit down again to close at 9/5. It's been reported that around $40k is in question. It could be as innocent enough as "somebody" purchased a wrong ticket and had the money put back into the pool on the correct horse. We truly hope that will be proven to be the case as racing certainly doesn't need anything like this right now.
Is anybody else out there having problems with the 4-day racing schedule? While we understand what it is all about, we really miss Wednesday racing and hope that the horse population will rebound so that it does return. Wednesday's return to racing may be aways away though as entries at Santa Anita seem to be creeping lower again as the meet rolls on.
Handicappers flash! No need to handicap the races anymore at Santa Anita! Just bet on anything trained by Bob Baffert.
Quite the the racing oddity on Thursday at The Great Race Place when the sire, Unusual Heat sired the first four place finishers in the fifth race for the mile distance over the turf course for older maidens. Phi Beta Heat ($43.60), Bitt a Heat, Unknown Heat and Favoloso all were sired by Unusual Heat. Can't recall when this was ever done before. Trainer Barry Abrams saddled the winner and third place finisher.
The promising Fast Master made his long awaited debut on Friday in the 4th race and didn't disappoint under Garret Gomez at $4.60. Another racing oddity was seeing trainer Bob Baffert at the starting gate "overseeing" the load of the 4-year-old gelded son of Tiznow (Cee's Tizzy).
The Grade II $150,000 San Pasqual on Saturday went to Aggie Engineer who has certainly come into his own now for trainer Patrick Gallagher under Joe Talamo. returning $5.40 to his backers, the 6-year-old gelded son of E Dubai (Mr. Prospector) once again ran his rivals off their feet for the win.
We have now officially seen enough of Dakota Phone, the inconsistent Jerry Hollendorfer trainee that ran up the track in Saturday's San Pasqual.
May Day Rose took Sunday's Grade III $100,000 Santa Ysabel which was a three horse field when Zazu and Plum Pretty scratched on Sunday morning. Bob Baffert saddled the winner at $2.10 under Rafael Bejarano and this was basically a walk over for the 3-year-old daughter of Rockport Harbor.
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