We stay in the Sooner State of Oklahoma for another edition of Quills Picks Winners as we will look at their stakes race that they have today, the Highland Ice Stakes. We have three-year-olds and up going six furlongs on the main track here. Post time is for approximately 4:57 pm Eastern time at the Claremont, Oklahoma oval.
After a successful trip to New York yesterday, we take a trip don’t take a trip down I-95 back home to Parx, but out to Oklahoma, where the winds come down the plains, where we will take a look at the eighth race at Will Rogers Downs as we have three year old fillies and up going six furlongs today. Post time is set for 5:24 pm Eastern time.
With Santa Anita taking the week off before coming back next week, our Sunday still will be Aqueduct as we will look at their featured race, which is the New York Stallion Stakes. Eight three year old fillies will go six and a half furlongs on the main track here, and the post time is for 5:04 pm Eastern time.
It’s Saturday and though the field for the Kentucky Derby is pretty much set for this year, we still have one final race from Keeneland as we complete the road to the Kentucky Derby with the Lexington Stales which will go a mile and a sixteenth on the main track.
We stay at soggy Keeneland for their featured race which is the ninth of ten on their Friday card. We will look at the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile, which will be a mile race that is scheduled for the turf. Post time is for approximately 5:16 pm Eastern time.
Welcome back to another edition of Quills Picks Winners, and we are headed today to rainy Lexington, Kentucky where we will look at an interesting race that I hope does not get decimated by scratches. Expect a sloppy track for this group of maidens aged three years old and up going six and a half furlongs on the main track. Post time is tentatively set for 2:36 pm Eastern time.
There’s about three weeks left in the Tampa Bay Downs season, so we will head there for our usual Wednesday stop as we will look at the seventh race today which is a race for three-year-old claimers going one mile on the turf course. Post time for these $20,000 claimers is for approximately 3:22 pm Eastern time.
After the celestial event of yesterday’s solar eclipse, we had home to Parx for today’s sixth race. We have Pennsylvania-bred three-year-old maidens going six furlongs here. The field of seven will head to the post at approximately 2:59 pm Eastern time.
Horseshoe Indy is not the only track that will experience a total solar eclipse. Mahoning Valley is on the edge of the total solar eclipse. Parx will be in the 80 to 90% range, where they have a mandatory pick-5 payout today which I am passing for some fun handicapping. Will Rogers is in the 95% range of totality. Even harness tracks running today will be affected.