Closing Weekend at Saratoga & Pacific Classic Preview

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00:00It's closing weekend at Saratoga, and we've got the Pacific Classic at Del Mar.

00:07So let's get out to Saratoga, see if we can get you a few winners for closing weekend.

00:11I have two of them that are going to come in races 11 and 12, Mike, and what's really

00:16cool about DRF.com and some of the articles we have here, it's like if you're doing your

00:21research for football season coming up and you're reading different blogs or you're reading

00:25some of the folks who are there and the beat writers, Dave Grenning from DRF told us that

00:30Mark Cassie, the trainer, was going to bring some of his really good two-year-olds to Saratoga

00:34this year, and he did.

00:36Mark Cassie's had an awesome meeting.

00:38One of those horses is Salted, and Salted's going to be in the spinway.

00:41Salted is still a maiden, actually, but he should have won his last race.

00:45He stumbled badly at the start, completely missed the break.

00:49He was like 10 lengths out of it.

00:50He closed really well to finish second.

00:53If he just gets a better start, Mike, I think he's going to be in the mix, and one more

00:57at Saratoga on Saturday, we've got Nietzsche-Marie in race number 12.

01:01This is one of the big races on the card.

01:03This is the Flower Bowl, and Nietzsche-Marie is a horse who, like we've seen, we see with

01:08younger athletes, you just improve so much from that first or second year to when you

01:14have a little bit more experience.

01:16You know what to expect.

01:17From last year to this year, Nietzsche-Marie looks like a completely different horse, running

01:21way faster speed figures.

01:23I think fits really well in there.

01:24So those are my two out at Saratoga.

01:27So, Gino, let me throw this in really fast because you just said it's the last weekend

01:31at Saratoga. So that means because they're redoing Belmont, they'll now go back to

01:35Aqueduct until next June, like they'll go now race at Aqueduct for that long because

01:41Belmont's finished. They're ripping the place apart and getting it rebuilt to then, I

01:46guess, make Belmont all-weather and then they'll tear Aqueduct down and get rid of that.

01:51I think that's the plans down the road.

01:53We're in a merry-go-round right now.

01:54Somebody needs to put a quarter in, but after Monday, when they close, Monday is closing

02:00day, so they do race on Labor Day and then they'll go back to Aqueduct for quite some

02:04time and we'll run the Belmont stakes like we did at Saratoga again next year as they

02:09keep renovating Belmont Park and they're going to make that bigger and better.