FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 4
CHURCHILL DOWNS
SPOT PLAYS
Race 6
#4 Hog Creek Hustle
Plus
play exacta box w/#7 Lasting Legacy
#4 Hog Creek Hustle exits a pair of toss-out losses,
first when overmatched in the Grade 1 Met Mile and then last time in a turf
race. If you go past those race to this horse’s dirt sprints, you will see he
stacks up favorably against this field at 10-1 morning line odds based on
efforts at similar distances including three races ago here at Churchill where
he finished a close second with a strong speed figure. Grade 1 winner at 7F
last year is ready to make a splash again today.
Play in exacta box with #7 Lasting Legacy, who has starts
that are all spaced out with time between races but nevertheless usually shows
up with strong outings fairly consistently, including most recently a close
second behind the tough Hunka Burnin Love at Lone Star. Speed figures look big
too. Also underrated at 6-1 odds on the morning line.
Race 12 – Kentucky Oaks
#1 Swiss Skydiver
is in the
midst of a tremendous 3-year-old campaign and comes into this race off of four
straight Graded stakes wins over fillies in races such as the Gulfstream Oaks
(G2), Fantasy (G3), Santa Anita Oaks (G2), and capped-off last time out with a
Grade 1 victory in the Alabama at Saratoga. The lone blemish on her recent
record came against males in the Blue Grass Stakes (G2), but even that was
certainly no embarrassment when second behind the likes of Art Collector, who
will go off as second-choice in the Kentucky Derby. Loaded with speed for
trainer Ken McPeek, but doesn’t need the lead to win and won’t be
distance-challenged at this 1 1/8-mile distance, based on the fact that she’s
already carried her speed 1 1/4 miles in the Alabama. She’s ready for what
figures to be a battle royale with morning-line favorite Gamine, but at the 1
1/8-mile distance, it appears to be Swiss Skydiver who holds the advantage and
is the one to beat.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
4
CHURCHILL DOWNS
RACE 1
1 –
#1a Movie Moxy 3-1 Best bet - entry
2 –
#1 Sovereign Appeal 3-1
3 –
#5 Financial One 2-1
RACE 2
1 –
#3 Sianara 4-1
2 – #12
Super Sport 9-2
3 –
#9 Amusing Antics 8-1
RACE 3
1 –
#6 Resurrection Road 5-1
2 –
#4 Positive Spirit 2-1
3 –
#5 Beautiful Trauma 5-2
RACE 4
1 –
#8 Palomita 7-2
2 –
#6 Ocean Breeze 2-1
3 –
#3 Miss T Too 5-2
RACE 5
1 –
#3 Amiche 9-2
2 –
#11 Honorifique 12-1
3 –
#6 Princess Lea 10-1
RACE 6
1 –
#4 Hog Creek Hustle 10-1
2 –
#7 Lasting Legacy 6-1
3 –
#5 Honest Mischief 2-1
RACE 7
1 –
#9 Ella Brilla 4-1
2 –
#6 Flabbergasted 3-1
3 –
#4 More Good Times 12-1
RACE 8 – Eight
Belles Stakes
1 –
#7 Four Graces 7-5
2 –
#1 Mundaye Call 6-5
3 –
#5 Sconsin 6-1
RACE 9 – Edgewood
1 –
#3 Sharing 6-5
2 –
#5 Outburst 8-1
3 –
#2 Hendy Woods 4-1
RACE 10 – Alysheba
Stakes
1 –
#6 By My Standards 7-5
2 –
#5 Mr Freeze 6-1
3 –
#2 McKinzie 8-5
RACE 11 – La
Troienne
1 –
#4 Monomoy Girl 4-5
2 –
#2 Vexatious 4-1
3 –
#1 Horologist 4-1
RACE 12 – Kentucky
Oaks
1 – #1
Swiss Skydiver 8-5
2 –
#4 Speech 5-1
3 –
#5 Gamine 1-1
4 –
#3 Donna Veloce 15-1
RACE 13 – Twin
Spires Turf Sprint
1 – #5
Extravagant Kid 7-2
2 –
#4 Bound For Nowhere 3-1
3 –
#14 Chief Cicatriz 15-1
4 –
#2 Welllabled 10-1