Mar
9
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Three winners today for Victor Espinoza, who brought his winning mounts home in almost identical, off-the-pace style. FEEL RIDGE ($26.60) rallied wide from last to narrowly take the 5th race, GHURRA ($6.40) was well rated before angling out wide at the top of the stretch to get up late in the 7th and THE CAT DID IT ($6.00) rallied from off the pace to finally break her maiden in the finale.
As well as Espinzoa rode, he only picked up one winner on leading man Garrett Gomez, who rode back-to-back winners in the 3rd and 4th races. Eight different trainers won on today’s card…three odds-on winners from the first four races, which made for a very chalky $27.60 payoff in the early Pick 4.
However, things got more fun later in the card, with double digit winners in the 5th and 6th races, which keyed a fat $1,338 late Pick 4 payoff.
Since it’s my Blog, I get to toot my own horn and brag a little since I gave out five top choice winners and nailed the late Pick 4 on my Premium Play selections for a suggested $72 investment. I used four runners in the first leg and got FEEL RIDGE, three in the next leg and got home top choice WATCH ME WIN ($13.40), “singled” and gave out GHURRA as my Free Pick of the Day, then had the last race spread out six deep before getting home favorite THAT CAT DID IT. Not to complain (that’s what we horseplayers do), but I would love to one time get that bomber home to close out a huge score when all the ducks are in line. I had chances for $8,077 and $6,123, along with other $2,000-3,000 potential payoffs but got the shortest one.
Trainer Doug O’Neill and jockey Gomez lead their respective categories in national purse earnings–O’Neill at $2.7 million and Gomez at $3.7 million. Not a bad two and a half months.
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