SUNDAY,
AUGUST 16
SPOT PLAYS
SARATOGA
Race 5
#3 Pilar Mountain
Needed a
race off an eight-month layoff last time and raced in an impossible tough spot.
Now goes second off the layoff for Pletcher, who forms nearly a 40%
trainer/jockey combo with Irad Ortiz. Won a race here at Saratoga last season
at this distance.
Race 6
#4 Breithorn
Plus play exacta box w/#2 Lost in Rome
#4 Breithorn
hustled early from the rail but got pinched back to last in trouble in the
early stages and later came again for third, just a head out of second, but had
already suffered too much of a disadvantage in that first outing versus maiden
claimers. Entered in for a tag again, and won’t remain a maiden much longer.
Play in
exacta box with #2 Lost in Rome, who closed from last and fell short by a
length only to the even-money favorite in a good second-place effort while
seven-lengths clear of the rest of the field two races ago in a key race where
both the winner and third-place horse came back to win their next starts.
Finished second again last time in the same race as Breithorn, and should once
again be no worse than second.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
SARATOGA
RACE 1
1 – #4 Stone Town 4-1
2 – #3 Cantata 5-2
3 – #6 Nevisian Sunrise 3-1
RACE 2
1 – #3 Seize the Hay 5-2
2 – #2 Complex System 8-5
3 – #1 Chocolate Bar 3-1
RACE 3
1 – #4 Rude Awakening 7-2
2 – #5 Lady C 9-5
3 – #3 Officer Hutchy 6-1
RACE 4
1 – #1 Make or Break 6-1
2 – #6 Skye Snow 2-1
3 – #8 Sky Kitten 8-1
RACE 5
1 – #1 Pilar Mountain 5-2
2 – #6 Namamura 9-5
3 – #2 Midnight Tea Time 5-1
RACE 6
1 – #4 Breithorn 5-2
2 – #2 Lost in Rome 7-2
3 – #7 Striking Speed 4-1
RACE 7
1 – #6 La Hara 1-1 Best Bet
2 – #9 Duress 5-1
3 – #7 Oak Hill 7-2
RACE 8
1 – #11 Big Q 5-1
2 – #6 Bertranda 4-1
3 – #2 Fierce Lady 9-2
RACE 9
1 – #1 Speaktomeofsummer 3-1
2 – #2 Enola Gay 2-1
3 – #6 Ricetta 9-2
RACE 10
1 – #9 Big Boy Mo 15-1
2 – #2 Yankee Empire 7-2
3 – #7 Dangerous Edge 9-2
4 – #1 Liam’s Fire 15-1