Exciting Grade 2 Bowling Green at Saratoga Preview

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00:00this is saturday over at saratoga this is the grade two bowling green they have a couple graded

00:05stakes races over there this is a nice one going a mile and three ace on the turf course we kick

00:09things off with the number one starting over ran pretty well last time out roberto just feels

00:15maybe a cut below the top contenders in here but at that pretty good performance finishing third

00:20last time i think it's gonna it's gonna continue to improve if you see the you know the prior races

00:27to the last you know pre last race i mean the barrier increase and it has the right yucky for

00:34this opportunity many frank number two el razine it's a horse who i think the longer distances

00:40will help uh this is a horse who has a good effort couple starts back when winning going a mile and a

00:47half mile and three eight so those are the types of races i think this horse really wants ran really

00:52well last time out and it was probably shorter than where he's at his best i think he's gonna run

00:57really well especially if you see his record in saratoga it's two for two you know and who better

01:02to top ledger to stretch horses the number three is tawny port and about this time last year he was

01:11running lots of seconds and thirds in races just like this but over the last year or so we just

01:16haven't seen him a whole lot on the track and he's been a little disappointing he's now oh for his last

01:2111 roberto how often do you see flavian pratt in a 12 to 1 in the saratoga gradient state so and he's

01:28on fire you have to read that and miguel clement is doing really well especially horses with this

01:34type of rest you know like a 31 to 60 days off so yeah connections uh trainer jockey connections

01:41the horse makes sense but when you look on paper want to see if they can get back to some of those

01:46better races from last year uh you like a bit of a live long shot here tux in who is really

01:51lightly raced for todd pletcher uh louis size is going to be jumping aboard and i think he was just

01:57facing a little bit too tough last time out you know in just his fifth start he was in the grade

02:01one manhattan most recently i don't know what happened with this horse in the manhattan probably was

02:06you know the field he faced tougher horses maybe it was the turf course too right it was a good

02:12turf course may not have liked it exactly but i i still had on my mind that race at kingland that

02:17was really really impressive yeah and i think it is this is another horse that i think is gonna run

02:22well yeah he's lightly raced and what's nice is that he's got a good running style where if you're

02:28looking at the projector they have him right on the lead so especially with an aggressive rider like

02:33louis size i'm expecting him to be one of the top horses early in this race and and maybe setting

02:38the pace or sitting really close uh on the kind of opposite end of the spectrum roberto we have

02:43web slinger right he's more of a horse who's gonna drop back he's gonna make one late run and try to

02:48come mow them all down he uh we have a replay of him right here where he's finishing second this was

02:52over at woodbine in the eclipse now this was on the synthetic surface but he's run well on the turf

02:58he's just a horse who in trifectas and exactas you like to have him underneath he just doesn't win

03:05a lot because of his running style sometimes he has to come from so far out of it especially when

03:11you see mark cassie i don't know how good my horses are gonna run are going are going to run this

03:17weekend but i can tell you to me mark cassie is gonna be in the three top finalists for the

03:23eclipse award when we're talking about really good horses and right now too in the start of saratoga

03:29you just mentioned the jockey flavian pratt mark cassie seems like one of those barns that we're

03:34just sitting on a big meet we know is gonna be firing with a lot of these horses coming up over

03:39the next few months let's move to the number six roberto and that is harrow harrow actually won a race

03:46a couple starts back um that he's won when traveling out of the country since coming back into the

03:52country he ran once right here at delaware park this was a pretty good second and he actually finished

03:57in front of a couple rivals including the number one starting over i mean this was a horse that they

04:02claimed just for sixteen thousand dollars last year and safie joseph jr is so good in situations just

04:09like this he can get a horse figure him out and then step him up the class ladder i always applaud

04:15safie with with moves like this and you get irad ortiz jr jumping aboard i i think i still think

04:22that william mcknight has been his best race so far he can repeat that he he you know he should

04:28have a shot yeah and he'll probably be a horse who wants to sit back a little bit make one late run

04:33hopes they go a little quick early on that's the number six harrow we move to the outside too who

04:39roberto and i both kind of feel like our major major players in here first the number seven far bridge

04:44he was third in the manhattan and we have a replay of this race right here he was getting a good trip

04:50he kind of loomed up no real excuses roberto i just think he's better going longer and you can

04:56see it in his form this was a little short for him so he maybe didn't have the punch needed uh to

05:02kind of go by i think at the longer distances he'll be able to kind of grind it out a little bit more

05:07like he has pretty good effort from far bridge to hold on for third in that uh in that spot and

05:12i mean last year he was really really good we saw him win the turf classic grade one the grade one

05:19sword dancer the man of war and the pan american earlier this year the last year and a half he's

05:25been one of the better turf routers i i think it's two factors on that race distance you already

05:31mentioned that and the ground that you may be you know you great point before and i mean he he's the

05:38horse to be you see four races saratoga he already had a win three third places but the distance

05:44and and i think he's gonna the pace is scenario he's gonna play on his favor yeah he's just got

05:51that versatility to him where he can sit close and you can just place him wherever you want he's just

05:56such a nice horse that's the number seven far bridge we'll round things out with the number eight

06:01corruption the outside horses are drawn only if the race comes off the turf so they're entered just for

06:07the main track only roberto with this horse's outside draw i'm just expecting them to try to put him a

06:13little closer to the front like he was two and three starts back he ran really well then you like

06:19him a little bit too what are you hoping for with the corruption on saturday to be at the front i i think

06:24that's that's gonna be the strongest chances to win this race he has to be in the front if you see the

06:31manhattan and also you see the the comment in on the drfm later he was slow at the uh at the start

06:37now he's i think he's gonna get a better break you know castellano insist and and i think this

06:45this horse is a better value than far bridge completely agree with you and i'm hoping for

06:49the same exact thing and we can pull up selections for this race as we get ready for our first

06:54commercial break but we both have the same horse corruption on top with the same hopes that he could

06:58get to the lead i love when you have a jockey like javier who was aboard him last time he knows now

07:04what he needs to do with this horse he's gonna get him to the front end from the outside

07:09eight seven two four for roberto eight seven six two for me

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