Regal Glory and Blowout meet again in Lake Placid
Regal Glroy (left) with Luis Saez up raced from the outside to catch and then pass Blowout (center) with Jose Ortiz up to win by a head in the July 19 Lake George Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course. will be the last horse she’ll have to get by.
Blowout (5-2) has experience at 1 1/16 miles, having made her first three starts (a win and a pair of narrow defeats) at that distance. The Dansili filly, out of a Deep Impact mare, has shown she’s tough in a fight, her five races having all been decided by a half-length or less. She could be the controlling speed today.
Varenka is given the best chance to upset the top two at 3-1. The Ghostzapper filly will be competing in her fourth graded race, her best finish having been a second in the Regret (G3) two starts back. She has been in the exacta in all four starts at 1 1/16 miles BANKROLL: Earlier this week, news broke that multiple Grade 1 winner Maximum Security would not ship to Saratoga for next weekend’s Travers Stakes. It’s the latest blow to a race that was already lacking in star power. In addition to the lack of Maximum Security (arguably the best 3-yearold male in training right and has run well at Saratoga. In her last outing, here at the Spa at today’s distance, she got up by a neck in an allowance/optional claimer. Graham Motion trains.
The British-bred Feel Glorious (5-1) won her first two American starts, on firm turf, but did not stage the same big finish in a pair of subsequent outings on softer ground. Christophe Clement now), it will not have a single winner of a Triple Crown race in the field, which will now more closely resemble that of a Grade 2 than a Grade 1. I have a vote for the Eclipse Awards, and those who follow me know I am not afraid to abstain from a category if I feel no horse in a division deserves a championship. We’ve got several months left until conditions the daughter of the Dansili stallion Bated Breath, who exits a fourth behind Blowout in the ungraded Wild Applause two months ago at Belmont.
The rest of the Lake Placid field consists of Wildlife (10-1), Vow to Recover (10-1) and Amandrea (15-1). MTO entrant Team Win is listed at 8-5 in the event the race is taken off the turf. I cast my ballot, but this division (which never gave off great vibes to begin with) continues to trend further down with each passing month. SATURDAY’S PLAY: I’ll focus on the early Pick Four, which kicks off in the second race and features both nice field sizes and very few heavy favorites. My 50-cent ticket looks like this: ALL with 5,7,10 with 1,4 with 2,7. TOTAL WAGERED: $36