Hawthorne Stable Notes for Saturday, November 7, 2009

A beautiful day here at Hawthorne! Here’s what is scary, today may be the best weather day of the meet and it is actually on a big day! I can’t believe it!  Today is Breeders’ Cup Saturday as the boys (and Goldikova & Zenyatta) take to the track for the eight Breeders’ Cup Races.  You can check out my picks on the website, and you will see that I am expecting a foreign domination of today’s races. I would not be surprised at all if at least six horses that are based overseas win BC races today.

At Hawthorne, we have sunny skies, a fast main track and a turf course listed as good for the ten race card.  Our first post is at 12:30 PM today and our races will be run in between those from Santa Anita all day long. We have full fields at Hawthorne today and very competitive racing.  The track continues to play quite evenly and I expect much of the same for this card.

Changes

Main Track – Fast

Turf  - Good

Race 1

Scratch #5 – Deputy Sreva

Race 2

Scratch #6 – Cajun Diablo

Race 3

Scratch #13 – Suspicious Package

Race 8

Scratch #11 – Campari

Race 9

Scratch #7 – Lucille in Motion

Race 10

Scratch #13 – Africa on My Mind

Best Bets

Race 4 - #1 – Yep – A runner that was fortunate enough to get a turf start already this meet, he was allowed to settled and made a fine steady advance for the win in his last.  He gets a ton of pace to chase once again and I expect a similar performance today.

Race 9 - #6 – Rio Rita – May be a bit of an upsetter as she gets Lasix for the first time today.  She is lightly raced, but came off the layoff in her last and was sent off at 7-2 in that start. She didn’t fire, but bled in the race and gets Lasix today.  Expect a wakeup call in here.