July 13

Close Out The Week With Feature Race Score, Again

Closed out the weekend of racing by taking down the featured stakes race on the Sunday card for the second weekend in a row! I certainly hope that I can say the same thing in two weeks when I'm in Oceanport and will have been on track for the many life stakes races and the feature is the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational!

Today I had five selections on the eleven race card and it looked like it might be a big day as in the opener Oh So Gia went right to the front and never looked back to start the day on a winning note. In the second, a two-year-old event, I had the 3/5 favorite in Off Duty who stumbled slightly out of the gate but within the first 16th of a mile had recovered and opened up by two.....looked long gone again, until mid-stretch when caught late and had to settle for second. Never in it in the fourth but in the 9th Nasty Cat used his outside draw to get a garden trip behind two dueling front-runners. Into the lane the 9/5 favorite blew by and opened up, looking like he'd score under a hand ride......not so fast my friend as he weakened late and didn't even hit the board. So the day came down to the featured Klassy Briefcase Stakes. Ju Ju Eyeballs had everything over this field on paper, with one exception. As I wrote in my analysis the only question was how she'd come back off a layoff of some nine months! But she was a perfect 3-for-3 at the distance and 2-for-2 here on the Jersey Shore......sat off the pace, blew by and scored at a handsome $6.40! Tripled the bet, so I cashed for nearly $50 and a winning day!