Hawthorne Stables Notes for Friday, November 6, 2009
What a great weekend of racing! We get nine excellent races
from Hawthorne, we get a great card from Santa
Anita and Hawthorne
is represented by a pair of Gold Cup runners in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon as Nite Light and Eldaafer both take
to the track. Also, you can pre-wager
the entire Breeders’ Cup card for Saturday today, if you can’t make it out to
the races tomorrow.
Today at Hawthorne,
we have a fast main track and a good turf course. We spent 8 hours on the turf last night after
races to move the rail out 10 feet to provide a fresh lane for racing, and to
perform maintenance on the grass to have it in top condition.
Looking back at yesterday’s card. The track played evenly
and the turf did as well. Jockey Inez Karlsson is riding at Churchill Downs today, so there are a
few open mounts on the card that are all live. First post today is at 2:00 PM with our $1
specials and tomorrow we have a special 12:35 PM early post.
Changes
Main Track – Fast
Turf – Good
Race 3
Scratch #3 – Do Get Personal
Race 4
Scratch #9 – Yukon
Jaack
Race 6
Scratch #13 – Super Poni
Race 7
Scratch #3 – High Noon Madness
Race 8
Scratch #9 – Boots are Walking
Scratch #10 – That I Am
Race 9
Scratch #13 – Crafty Match
Best Bet
Race 3 - #10 – Tora – With our
turf sprints, I love the outside posts much better than the inside. Tora comes off a
claim and has been great at this distance. I expect her to show speed, especially with Do
Get Personal out and she should be a big threat.
Race 9 - #4 – Five Star John – A solid winner against the
same last time out, he draws well and gets a return to Hawthorne, where is
looks to have taken to the track. There
is pace to chase and I expect another big effort.