Hollywood play for Saturday
DiscreetCat
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Hollywood - Race 8
#6 Battled (3/1 ml)
Hard not to like this one. Bob Baffert colt brought $300,000 at the May Barrett's sale (over 20 times the sire's stud fee) after working a furlong in 10 seconds flat (one tick off the show's best), and has recently worked heads-up on two different occasions (Dec 2 and Nov 19) with Flashback, who came out of those drills to win impressively with a 93 Beyer last weekend. Should be tough to handle.
HRT record:
89 for 332 (27%)
$763.80 mutuels ($8.56 avg)
#6 Battled (3/1 ml)
Hard not to like this one. Bob Baffert colt brought $300,000 at the May Barrett's sale (over 20 times the sire's stud fee) after working a furlong in 10 seconds flat (one tick off the show's best), and has recently worked heads-up on two different occasions (Dec 2 and Nov 19) with Flashback, who came out of those drills to win impressively with a 93 Beyer last weekend. Should be tough to handle.
HRT record:
89 for 332 (27%)
$763.80 mutuels ($8.56 avg)
Comments
This is gonna come back as a tough race IMO. Nice run by Battled, who got up for second after fading to third at the top of the stretch. He also broke a step slow, but the price was certainly right.
The day on the whole was a giant let-down for Baffert, who just got beat up and down the track.