Louisiana Derby play for Saturday (Mar 29)
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Fair Grounds - Race 11
#9 In Trouble (4/1 ml)
Gave this guy out way back @ Saratoga last year, as he had worked with a stakes winner and an allowance winner heading into his 2yo debut (and winning @ $17.20). He then won the Futurity @ Belmont before injuring himself and going on the shelf until earlier this month, when he went straight into the 1 1/16-mile Gotham Stakes off the long layoff (while making his two-turn debut, no less), and running a bang-up race where he set the pace to upper stretch and then was dead-game along the rail despite being in extremely tight quarters, pressed down on the rail by two other horses and even getting bumped around pretty soundly in midstretch. The horse just wouldn't give an inch, and when doing this under such adverse circumstances (not only the tough stretch trip, but making his two-turn debut in the Gotham Stakes while coming off a 5-month layoff), i couldn't really be more impressed with his desire to win. He figures to have gotten a ton out of that race, and btw, just the fact that he was thrown into that spot first time back by a razor-sharp trainer like Anthony Dutrow really speaks to how much confidence he must have in this colt. I suspect we're going to a nice move forward today, as long as he handles the new surface (and with 3 fine races over 3 different racetracks so far, that doesn't seem like a huge issue).
HRT record:
95 for 355 (27%)
$813.10 mutuels ($8.56 avg)
#9 In Trouble (4/1 ml)
Gave this guy out way back @ Saratoga last year, as he had worked with a stakes winner and an allowance winner heading into his 2yo debut (and winning @ $17.20). He then won the Futurity @ Belmont before injuring himself and going on the shelf until earlier this month, when he went straight into the 1 1/16-mile Gotham Stakes off the long layoff (while making his two-turn debut, no less), and running a bang-up race where he set the pace to upper stretch and then was dead-game along the rail despite being in extremely tight quarters, pressed down on the rail by two other horses and even getting bumped around pretty soundly in midstretch. The horse just wouldn't give an inch, and when doing this under such adverse circumstances (not only the tough stretch trip, but making his two-turn debut in the Gotham Stakes while coming off a 5-month layoff), i couldn't really be more impressed with his desire to win. He figures to have gotten a ton out of that race, and btw, just the fact that he was thrown into that spot first time back by a razor-sharp trainer like Anthony Dutrow really speaks to how much confidence he must have in this colt. I suspect we're going to a nice move forward today, as long as he handles the new surface (and with 3 fine races over 3 different racetracks so far, that doesn't seem like a huge issue).
HRT record:
95 for 355 (27%)
$813.10 mutuels ($8.56 avg)
Comments
Same connections as Golden Soul that ran 2nd in the Ky Derby last year out of a 4th place finish in the La. Derby. I was all in on Vicars In Trouble after watching how the track played throughout the day.