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Global Horses Compete for Grade 1 Victory at Keeneland
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4/11/2025
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you're going to get some real quality horses showing up that's the case in this race we have
00:05
horses shipping in from all over the world in here like the one excellent truth actually was
00:10
bred in ireland but has been running in france the two which i'm going with schwazia that's what
00:15
the announcer had said uh this horse has been running most recently in may don and prior to
00:20
that had been running in the uk we see the six jabara who's another one who's been running
00:25
overseas so you get horses who are coming in from different countries because it's a big purse
00:31
and they want to get that grade one win uh let's start things out with the number one excellent
00:35
truth who now comes into the chad brown barn with flavian pratt aboard this horse was facing uh
00:42
fillies and mayors at the highest levels in fact grade one placed group one placed lost to a horse
00:47
named marquise de sauvenier who won four really impressive races in a row stakes races so excellent
00:55
truth i think really fits on the class level the horses she's been facing are very good but my
01:01
only concern is alexa she hasn't raced since july of 2024 so we're coming up what on 10 months now of a
01:08
layoff yeah this is a really interesting horse and like what you're talking about with running in a
01:13
graded stakes obviously that means a lot of money but also especially especially for phillies which
01:20
these are phillies if you win or even place in a graded stakes race you have major breeding values so
01:26
um and she was sold actually so excellent truth was sold in a breeding stock sale in the fall for
01:33
1.7 million she already has incredible breeding value uh resolute racing bought her and now they're
01:38
bringing over to to run again so i i just think it's really interesting but actually she's my top pick
01:43
in here chad brown has won this race six out of the last seven years so this is his race that's her
01:49
trainer in here um he's so good with european imports winning 38 of the time when they ship on over so i
01:57
just think she'll be really really tough if she handles the new surroundings the number two uh yeah
02:02
i'm going with schwazia i think that's what they said here we go i'm like choice up yeah listening to
02:09
the races that's what the announcer said and when i was watching one of those races when she ran in
02:15
dubai she beat a horse named cinderella's dream cinderella's dream finished second in the breeders
02:21
cup philly and mere turf here last year so when you're wondering you know how do the races compare
02:26
from different countries that gives you like a really good kind of measuring stick for the u.s racing
02:32
um so i think schwazia fits pretty well with this group alexa i think so too i mean she's so classy
02:38
um we've seen that throughout her career she's run basically only in stakes for a very long time
02:43
um her time form ratings which we show on the screen there that spotlight figure that 113 so
02:49
they're just really peaking like she's really fast getting better versatile horse um so i think she's
02:56
a serious contender yep next up is the three pool side with slim but slim what if we win wouldn't it
03:02
be weird why so you guys could lie to get me here i could keep rapping and do a whole nother show
03:06
alexa but what do you think about this uh 20 to one shot pool side with slim i mean so she's an
03:11
improving four-year-old she runs well here um but this is a big step up in class so a bit of a
03:17
question mark and you get you get those odds on that with 20 to one or plus 2 000 so it shows you
03:23
how difficult the race is because she's not in bad form but she's just not necessarily won races that
03:29
are this tough yet so she might be kind of a sneaky fun horse to use in like trifectas and stuff like
03:34
that because she could absolutely hit the board in here uh vena orana has not run in seven and a
03:40
half months alexa so that's my only concern for her coming into this race because her lone race in
03:45
the u.s was good but then she has a layoff and now she's facing way tougher yeah i agree i mean i think
03:53
this is a big ask after such a long layoff um and a big class jump the race that she did
03:57
well and has produced several next out winners but i'm gonna pass this time be your best comes
04:04
off of a really nice win you and i were at the pegasus world cup uh at golf stream park and she
04:09
ran very well when she won that race the philly and mare turf and she has the running style where
04:15
she shows good early speed she's going to be close to the front throughout this race do you think she
04:20
can finish and hold on for a big piece yeah i have her as my second choice in here i think um
04:25
she's just super consistent she runs really well and top company all the time and her kingdom record
04:33
isn't so great she hasn't won um in two starts but she just ran her best race ever at this distance
04:39
her current form is sharp she gets irat ortiz aboard which is one of the best jockeys and so i really
04:45
like her at the price of plus 600 the number six is jabara and this is another one of the horses who
04:52
comes in from out of the country jabara when you're wondering you know some of the horses that
04:56
she's faced how good are they she lost to a horse named porta fortuna a couple times last year and
05:02
that was one of the betting favorites in the breeders cup who came over here so she's also faced really
05:07
nice company what do you think about jabara's chances in my opinion out of the foreign shippers
05:12
this is probably the weakest choice um you know this is her first time going longer than a mile
05:18
i'm passing this time yeah i think you can kind of poke some holes in her compared to the others who
05:24
are a little more proven at the level at the distance caho beach is a grade two winner and she's
05:30
really really fast alexa we expect to see her right up on the front like you can see on the pace
05:35
projector so i think if she wins this race it's probably that way she gets out front and she kind of
05:40
steals it yeah she'll be the one to catch in here for sure and like you see that pace projector she
05:44
can get on a loose lead which is always an advantage if you can just get away and you know they can't
05:51
make up the ground um so definitely a contender in here wesley wards her trainer who is like the king
05:57
of two-year-olds at keeneland these aren't two-year-olds but he's a really successful trainer at keeneland
06:03
last couple uh in this field the number eight sacred wish who is a grade one winner and she just
06:09
feels like she's getting better and better alexa uh in her 11 races nine 11 races on the grass
06:15
nine of them have been in the money top three and then two fourths she like never runs a bad race
06:20
no she's hit the board getting first second or third and 14 out of her 18 starts ran really well
06:26
here last april in allowance i think she seems capable off of the layoff her closing style fits
06:31
definitely a solid contender in here i mean time from us has her winning if you look at it and
06:36
as we move to ran out the field no show sammy joe this horse hasn't done much wrong but she's
06:42
stepping up it's just a really tough race alexa yeah really impressive i like this horse underneath
06:47
i've included it as my fourth pick in here a significant class test going against the toughest
06:52
she's ever faced um but a ton of potential upside so rattle them off for us in here what were your top
06:57
four for this race yeah so my top one is excellent truth the one over the five be your best and then
07:04
sacred wish the eight and no show sammy the nine similarities for us with the two eight one five
07:10
for me
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