Global Horses Compete for Grade 1 Victory at Keeneland

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00:00you're going to get some real quality horses showing up that's the case in this race we have

00:05horses shipping in from all over the world in here like the one excellent truth actually was

00:10bred in ireland but has been running in france the two which i'm going with schwazia that's what

00:15the announcer had said uh this horse has been running most recently in may don and prior to

00:20that had been running in the uk we see the six jabara who's another one who's been running

00:25overseas so you get horses who are coming in from different countries because it's a big purse

00:31and they want to get that grade one win uh let's start things out with the number one excellent

00:35truth who now comes into the chad brown barn with flavian pratt aboard this horse was facing uh

00:42fillies and mayors at the highest levels in fact grade one placed group one placed lost to a horse

00:47named marquise de sauvenier who won four really impressive races in a row stakes races so excellent

00:55truth i think really fits on the class level the horses she's been facing are very good but my

01:01only concern is alexa she hasn't raced since july of 2024 so we're coming up what on 10 months now of a

01:08layoff yeah this is a really interesting horse and like what you're talking about with running in a

01:13graded stakes obviously that means a lot of money but also especially especially for phillies which

01:20these are phillies if you win or even place in a graded stakes race you have major breeding values so

01:26um and she was sold actually so excellent truth was sold in a breeding stock sale in the fall for

01:331.7 million she already has incredible breeding value uh resolute racing bought her and now they're

01:38bringing over to to run again so i i just think it's really interesting but actually she's my top pick

01:43in here chad brown has won this race six out of the last seven years so this is his race that's her

01:49trainer in here um he's so good with european imports winning 38 of the time when they ship on over so i

01:57just think she'll be really really tough if she handles the new surroundings the number two uh yeah

02:02i'm going with schwazia i think that's what they said here we go i'm like choice up yeah listening to

02:09the races that's what the announcer said and when i was watching one of those races when she ran in

02:15dubai she beat a horse named cinderella's dream cinderella's dream finished second in the breeders

02:21cup philly and mere turf here last year so when you're wondering you know how do the races compare

02:26from different countries that gives you like a really good kind of measuring stick for the u.s racing

02:32um so i think schwazia fits pretty well with this group alexa i think so too i mean she's so classy

02:38um we've seen that throughout her career she's run basically only in stakes for a very long time

02:43um her time form ratings which we show on the screen there that spotlight figure that 113 so

02:49they're just really peaking like she's really fast getting better versatile horse um so i think she's

02:56a serious contender yep next up is the three pool side with slim but slim what if we win wouldn't it

03:02be weird why so you guys could lie to get me here i could keep rapping and do a whole nother show

03:06alexa but what do you think about this uh 20 to one shot pool side with slim i mean so she's an

03:11improving four-year-old she runs well here um but this is a big step up in class so a bit of a

03:17question mark and you get you get those odds on that with 20 to one or plus 2 000 so it shows you

03:23how difficult the race is because she's not in bad form but she's just not necessarily won races that

03:29are this tough yet so she might be kind of a sneaky fun horse to use in like trifectas and stuff like

03:34that because she could absolutely hit the board in here uh vena orana has not run in seven and a

03:40half months alexa so that's my only concern for her coming into this race because her lone race in

03:45the u.s was good but then she has a layoff and now she's facing way tougher yeah i agree i mean i think

03:53this is a big ask after such a long layoff um and a big class jump the race that she did

03:57well and has produced several next out winners but i'm gonna pass this time be your best comes

04:04off of a really nice win you and i were at the pegasus world cup uh at golf stream park and she

04:09ran very well when she won that race the philly and mare turf and she has the running style where

04:15she shows good early speed she's going to be close to the front throughout this race do you think she

04:20can finish and hold on for a big piece yeah i have her as my second choice in here i think um

04:25she's just super consistent she runs really well and top company all the time and her kingdom record

04:33isn't so great she hasn't won um in two starts but she just ran her best race ever at this distance

04:39her current form is sharp she gets irat ortiz aboard which is one of the best jockeys and so i really

04:45like her at the price of plus 600 the number six is jabara and this is another one of the horses who

04:52comes in from out of the country jabara when you're wondering you know some of the horses that

04:56she's faced how good are they she lost to a horse named porta fortuna a couple times last year and

05:02that was one of the betting favorites in the breeders cup who came over here so she's also faced really

05:07nice company what do you think about jabara's chances in my opinion out of the foreign shippers

05:12this is probably the weakest choice um you know this is her first time going longer than a mile

05:18i'm passing this time yeah i think you can kind of poke some holes in her compared to the others who

05:24are a little more proven at the level at the distance caho beach is a grade two winner and she's

05:30really really fast alexa we expect to see her right up on the front like you can see on the pace

05:35projector so i think if she wins this race it's probably that way she gets out front and she kind of

05:40steals it yeah she'll be the one to catch in here for sure and like you see that pace projector she

05:44can get on a loose lead which is always an advantage if you can just get away and you know they can't

05:51make up the ground um so definitely a contender in here wesley wards her trainer who is like the king

05:57of two-year-olds at keeneland these aren't two-year-olds but he's a really successful trainer at keeneland

06:03last couple uh in this field the number eight sacred wish who is a grade one winner and she just

06:09feels like she's getting better and better alexa uh in her 11 races nine 11 races on the grass

06:15nine of them have been in the money top three and then two fourths she like never runs a bad race

06:20no she's hit the board getting first second or third and 14 out of her 18 starts ran really well

06:26here last april in allowance i think she seems capable off of the layoff her closing style fits

06:31definitely a solid contender in here i mean time from us has her winning if you look at it and

06:36as we move to ran out the field no show sammy joe this horse hasn't done much wrong but she's

06:42stepping up it's just a really tough race alexa yeah really impressive i like this horse underneath

06:47i've included it as my fourth pick in here a significant class test going against the toughest

06:52she's ever faced um but a ton of potential upside so rattle them off for us in here what were your top

06:57four for this race yeah so my top one is excellent truth the one over the five be your best and then

07:04sacred wish the eight and no show sammy the nine similarities for us with the two eight one five

07:10for me

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