Both Twirling Candy and Crown Of Thorns, the two inclined to favorites for Saturday’s Goodwood Stakes at Oak Tree at Hollywood Park, will continue without to punch their tickets to the 2010 Breeders Cup with a victory.
Twirling Candy will most fitting go off the favorite while Crown Of Thorns figures to go off no better than 3/1 in the race. Let’s take a look at all of the contenders for this Saturday’s Goodwood Stakes!
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Gradient I Goodwood Stakes
Oak Tree at Hollywood Park - Saturday
Where: Hollywood Park – Race 9
When: Oct. 2nd, 2010 at 8:20 pm EST
TV TVG
Goodwood Stakes (Grade I):
Purse $250,000. (Includes $25,000 – BC – Breeders’ Cup). Pro Three-Year-Olds And Upward.
1 1/8th miles over all-weather lessen track
- Informed – - The odds inclination definitely be nice, around 20/1 or so, and this guy has 3 victories and 2 seconds over the cushion at Hollywood. But this will single be his alternate hare of the year and it just sort of feels like he isn’t ready to take on the big guns in this. I experience to pass but I can’t absolutely dismiss from my exotic tickets.
- Authority Of Thorns – - Trainer Richard Mandella finally stretches him out after 4 straight sprint races dating back to Sept. of 2009 and my guess is that Crowns Of Thorns is going to be ultra-successful going two turns on Saturday. He’s bred to paramour it and won the Grade II Robert B. Lewis at a course of ground as a three-year-old in 2008. If this horse is right, he’s as whizzo as any on the West Coast. He’s one of the serious players on Saturday.
- Dakota Phone – - You have to use him in your exotics because he can bust outlying a great race without warning, like he did when winning the Grade II San Diego in July and he picks up Patrick Valenzuela to ride. Of course, the San Diego was his first victory in his last 10 races. He’s an iffy proposition to bet to win and there’s no feeling he’s going to the Breeders Cup , but he’s a hard trying horse that could finish 4th in this.
- Crowded House – - He’s classy but the 2nd place finish in the Pacific Classic doesn’t impress me at all. It was a loathsome, horrible race in flight in a ridiculously slow time. So, I’m not cold. If you’re going recondite in trifectas or superfectas, he’s worth a look, though.
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- Twirling Candy – - He’s undefeated in 4 starts and is another Tiznow the West Coast runner that won two BC Classics, in the making. He’s won finished bounce and the plastic and no doubt will love the dirt since his daddy, Confectionery Ride, put a beat down on Medaglia D’Oro in the 2003 Pacific Epitome that was run over conventional dirt. If he wins tomorrow he becomes a legitimate longshot to upset Zenyatta, Condemnation and Quality Road in the 2010 Breeders Cup Classic.
- Awesome Stone – - All California tracks need to do away with the plastic. All of them. I mean, Awesome Gem won the Grade I Hollywood Gold Cup in one of the slowest times in the history of the race. I don’t think he has a shot to win the Goodwood and he won’t show up in Churchill for the BC Classic, but he’s yet another that could pick up the pieces late.
- Richard’s Kid – - The 2-time Pacific Classic winner might be the worst horse to all the time win a State I in the history of California racing. Okay, maybe he’s the 2nd worst horse after Awesome Gem. I’m being hard on the prior claimer, of course, but the reality remains that this guy rain like a snail in the P. Classic in August and stillness won. I’m not sold on him at all against Crown Of Thorns or Twirling Candy.
Before all Place: Twirling Sweetmeats
Second Place: Her majesty Of Thorns
Third Place: Dakota Phone
Fourth Place: Alert to
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Sources: brisnet. com, equibase. com