Vekoma, Roadster, Tacitus and Game Winner …

all with tremendous wins in the Bluegrass, The Santa Anita Derby and the Wood Memorial prepare for their trip to Kentucky.  Game Winner ran a very solid 2nd in the Santa Anita Derby, while giving lots of ground around both turns while moving to engage Instagrand, may have been equal to Roadster who went on to win the Santa Anita Derby in very nice fashion.

But we have to take a moment to reflect on Vekoma who was cross-firing, looking around and running through the stretch like a sailor who had just reach the bar after a long tour at sea.  And while doing all the shenanigans he widened his lead.   It would be fair for us to consider this horse has more talent to show as he matures, maybe more than anyone else.

Tacitus also took some bumping in the first turn of the Wood and ran really nicely while holding Tax safe, and it’s worth noting he didn’t give much ground to a fast closing Haikal who stopped putting his best run about 100 yards out, noting he was too far behind the top two to get the job done.  He seems to have not like the 2-turns as much as he like the 1 turn Mile… Let’s keep that in mind for future racing… might really like the Belmont configuration.

It was a great day and we have lots’ to think about…

Sunday’s Menu…

Aqueduct — Jerry J’s Power Page and Jerry J’s Power Page – PLUS

Gulfstream Park — Jerry J’s Power Page Classic (only)

Santa Anita— Jerry J’s Power Page and Jerry J’s Power Page – PLUS

Stay With the Power Page

All purchases will receive a SPECIAL BLUEGRASS Power Page!

It will come in a follow up e-mail at 11 PM PT tonight, or at 10 am PT on Saturday morning…

The 3 Preps, The Wood, The Bluegrass and The S. A. Derby!

Here we go, with Haikal, Tax, a new face in Hoffa’s Union and Tacitus meet several other less potent – so far – runners to duke it out in the long heralded Wood Memorial.  This was the race that Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Spectacular Bid and many, many more Kentucky Derby winners used as their primary prep.  Almost 10 years ago one of my customer’s Frankie from Texas, told me the Wood was no longer a good place to prep for the KD.  I thought that didn’t make any sense.  But he has proved to be quite correct.  But I don’t see why that’s the case, because it is as well situated as The Bluegrass and the Santa Anita Derby!  But it’s been quite a long time since a KD winner was a participant in the Wood.  That being said, Haikal really catches my eye as he moves late with beautiful fluid strides.  He is running faster than every other horse he as ever faced through the final 1/4 mile.  He is high on my list of KD contenders and ultra dangerous on this stretch out.

The Bluegrass, we will discuss later… Everyone who buys a JJPP will get a Bluegrass sent to them either late tonight or tomorrow. I will be back a little later to discuss the Bluegrass, because as of this moment… I haven’t completed the handicapping…

The Santa Anita Derby features 2 horses from the legendary Bob Baffert.  Who for some reason, has become the worst play on the grounds for some unknown reason.  He sent 3 horses to Oaklawn, they all went off at ODDS on and they all were unable to defeat competition in the final 1/8th of a mile. Beyond that, he has had numerous high figure horse get beat in the stretch by relatively common type competition… over and over again.  With that in mind, I am giving Instagrand another chance after his poor stretch run at Aqueduct in his first race of the year.  He was still brilliant, but he was not fit enough to take on Haikal and Tax in the stretch of the 1 mile event.  While disappointing, I think good handicapping insists we should expect an improved effort and the 2-turns might well suit him.  While I don’t think he is a legit KD type horse, I do think on his first stretch around 2-turns we can cash an overlay… taking the money bet on the the Baffert duo of Roadster and Game Winner — who is absolutely the legit favorite here and may be your eventual KD winner… But it’s smart to stay with the trends…

Good Luck… and enjoy…

Friday’s Menu…

Aqueduct — Jerry J’s Power Page and Jerry J’s Power Page – PLUS 

Gulfstream Park — Jerry J’s Power Page Classic (only)

Santa Anita— Jerry J’s Power Page and Jerry J’s Power Page – PLUS

Stay With the Power Page…