How Fast Can A Horse Run

CHURCHILL DOWNS BARN NOTES Saturday, June 25, 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011
CHURCHILL DOWNS BARN NOTES Saturday, June 25, 2011
MCCARTHY’S GENERAL QUARTERS LEADS FIRECRACKER NOMINATIONS – The winners of the two most recent runnings of the Grade I Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, Tom McCarthy’s General Quarters, who won the race in 2010, and Sullimar Stable’s 2011 winner Get Stormy head a list of 55 nominations for the 21st running of Churchill Downs’ $175,000-added Firecracker Handicap (GII). Two horses that competed on dirt in the $500,000 Stephen Foster Presented by Abu Dhabi (Grade I) are also being considered for the Firecracker. James Spence’s El Caballo, who ran 10th to Pool Play in the Stephen Foster, has recorded two allowance victories over the Matt Winn Turf Course and won the only stakes of his career over the grass in the Grade III Colonel E. R. Bradley Handicap at Fair Grounds on Jan. 23, 2010. Sum of the Parts and Lil Cherokee will likely face two starters from the Bernie Flint barn in Exfactor and Bonaparte; both of which are owned by Stoneway Farm. Exfactor ran second to Sum of the Parts in his debut prior to recording a 4 ½ victory at Churchill Downs on June 9. Bonaparte made his career debut a winning one by taking a maiden special weight at the Louisville track on May 30. LOPRESTI HAS ‘BEN’ GOING IN RIGHT DIRECTION, NOW LOOKS FOR LUCK WITH HIS ‘DANS’ – After a pair of disappointing efforts against rugged competition in his first two races of the year, Marianne and Brandon Chase’s homebred Here Comes Ben had been sending signals over the past few days that trainer Charles Lopresti was happy to see. On Friday night the 5-year-old son of Street Cry validated those good vibrations with an emphatic 3 ¼-length victory over Stonestreet Stable’s Captain Cherokee in the $76,445 Kelly’s Landing overnight stakes. It was the second consecutive victory in the race for Here Comes Ben, who completed the seven-furlong distance over a fast track in 1:22.26. After a winter break Here Comes Ben launched his 5-year-old campaign against a rugged field of 11 rivals on Kentucky Derby Day in the $300,000 Churchill Downs (GII), where he finished seventh to the victorious Aikenite. He then tackled a similar group in the Aristides (GIII) on June 4, where he finished sixth to Noble’s Promise at a six-furlong distance that is a furlong short of his best.

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What are YOUR strategies for betting on horse races?

I know some people like to make a trifecta box with the first, second, and fourth favorite horses. Or like in the Preakness where you have one heavily bet on favorite and the rest of the field with great odds, you put an exacta wheel with the favorite over the field. But what do you guys like to do/what wins you the most money?

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4. How the horse runs most of his races…this would be the pace of the race. Some horses like to run in front, some in the middle/or just off the front and others like to come out of the clouds. For me, this can potentially be the most fruitful place to find good betting interests. Ex.

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