June, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Speightster Colt Fastest At Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita Under-Tack Show

A colt by WinStar Farm resident Speightster turned in the fastest furlong of the Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale under-tack show on Monday, covering the distance in :10 2/5 seconds.

The bay colt, offered as Hip 109, is out of the stakes-placed Artie Schiller mare Pankhurst, from the family of Grade 1-placed Apassionato, and Grade 2-placed Mama's Pro and Pro Prado. L. G. consigns the Kentucky-bred colt, as agent.

Monday's fastest juvenile at a quarter-mile was Hip 54, a first-crop Cupid filly who covered the distance in :22 flat.

The dark bay or brown filly is out of the winning Medaglia d'Oro mare Wild Mocha, who is the dam of three winners from five foals to race. Grade 2 winners Passion For Action and Payton d'Oro are in the filly's extended family. L. G. also consigned the day's fastest quarter-mile horse, as agent.

To view the full under-tack results, click here.

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Fixed-Odds Wagering Bill Passes in NJ, Expected to Begin Haskell Day

A bill legalizing fixed-odds wagering on horse races was passed unanimously by both houses in New Jersey and will now go to Governor Phil Murphy, who is expected to sign it. Expectations are that fixed odds betting will begin July 17, the day of the GI TVG.com Haskell S. at Monmouth Park.

“We've been pushing hard to get it up and running by the Haskell,” said Dallas Baker, the head of international operations for the Australian firm BetMakers, which will operate the fixed- odds betting. “That's always been our goal. We've got a lot of work to do, which is great. We've ve always been aiming for the Haskell and we're all confident that's when we can begin. It's go time.”

Monmouth Park has been a long-time advocate of fixed-odds wagering, hoping that it can do for U.S. racing what it did in Australia. Once legalized, fixed-odds betting exploded in Australia, leading to a sharp increase in total handle on racing and healthy purse increases.

“Our ultimate goal is to have what happened in Australia over the last 10 years or so and after online betting was deregulated happen here,” Baker said. “In that time, the handle has doubled and purse money doubled as well. That's what we want to see here, too. The opportunity exists in the U.S. to have that happen here and on a quicker time line than 10 years.”

With just 24.6 million residents, $25 billion is wagered annually on racing in Australia, or about $15 billion more than what is bet each year in the U.S.

Fixed-odds betting could also go a long way towards fixing what has become a serious problem for U.S. racing. Because large gamblers using computer programs to make their bets are allowed to bet at the very last second, it is common for odds to plunge on a horse during the running of the race. That, for obvious reasons, leaves a bad taste in the bettors' mouths.

With Monmouth long ago committed to the fixed-odds wagering, BetMakers has been looking to sign up other tracks to add to its betting menu. Baker would not say exactly how many have come on, but said he was pleased by the response.

“We've got quite a few tracks signed up and ready to go. Maybe a dozen,” Baker said. “What the bill allows is it provides the legalities to take fixed-odds bets as long as there are commercial terms in place with the other tracks. Quite a few signed up now and, hopefully, in next few weeks, we will get some more. We will also have a full menu of international racing.”

As of now, only New Jersey residents will be allowed to have fixed-odds accounts, but Baker said it should not take long for other states to come on board.

“We have spoken to a lot of other states and they have shown good interest in it,” he said. “But they were waiting to see the bill passed in New Jersey first. We see the roll out going very similar to what happened with PASPA (the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act). The obvious ones to take fixed- odds wagering on horses are the ones that already have sports betting.”

Once fixed-odds betting is widely available, the hope, Baker said, is that sports bettors who are now ignoring horse racing will be enticed to give the horses a try. That a fixed-odds wager closely resembles a typical sports bet is seen as a major selling point.

“The important thing is to zone in on the phenomenon that is sports betting in the U.S.,” he said. “We want to get those punters betting on racing and right now they don't have an easy in when it comes to racing.”

According to playnj.com, the takeout on the fixed-odds betting will be 12.5%, which is considerably lower than the typical takeout on pari-mutuel win wagers.

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Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare, Breeder Step Up To Get Horse Home From Puerto Rico

Ex-Marine Joe Pike is a featured private eye character in suspense novels by Los Angeles-based writer Robert Crais, but he is also a 10-year-old Thoroughbred racehorse who retired in Puerto Rico and has come home, thanks to his original breeder Joanna Reisler and the Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare (CTA) program. The CTA is trying to raise $3,000 to offset the costs of bringing the beloved Joe Pike back to the States.

For more than a decade, the Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare team has worked diligently to provide a responsible process for Thoroughbreds who have been shipped to the islands for racing to be returned off the racetracks in healthy condition and ready for new careers and homecomings. CTA has received an Eclipse Award of Merit for their work after hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico several years ago and has been accredited by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance.

Reisler sees a little bit of the private eye character in the horse that shares his namesake, Joe Pike, a name he got shortly after selling as a yearling at the OBS sale in 2012. She noted the horse has a personality was one to remember.

From 2013 to 2018, Joe Pike started 36 times winning 14 times, second seven times and third six times. He earned $132,747, which is a significant amount on the island based on the modest purses. His success led him to being named the champion 3-year-old imported horse in Puerto Rico.

After racing his last race on April 13, 2018, his owner proposed keeping him in Puerto Rico as a breeding stallion. Joe Pike's sire, Benny the Bull, was a multiple graded stakes winner and Eclipse Award-winning sprinter in 2008, beating Midnight Lute 107 votes to 86.

Before Joe Pike could make his way to the breeding shed, Reisler noticed the horse was no longer racing and called CTA for information on where he was. Reisler offered him a home, if CTA could get him back to Florida.

Through dedicated time and collective efforts, CTA acquired Joe Pike and have brought him stateside. However, the costs associated with getting him home include quarantine, shipping by plane to Miami, and a van ride to Ocala. The total cost is $3,094. This does not include the nonprofit's cost for gelding, current shots, and board.

Hundreds of Thoroughbreds arrive in Puerto Rico and surrounding islands each year. The challenges of transitioning each back to the States are many, and one of the biggest hurdles is the cost for horses to return to the mainland. The CTA has had to dip into its emergency fund to fund Joe Pike's trip back and is now calling on the racing community to help restore their reserves.

The CTA Flight Fund helps with the expenses and is funded by donations.

For information on the CTA program or to make a donation go to https://pages.donately.com/cta/campaign/cta-flight-fund and designate a specific horse or generally for horses CTA is helping.

The Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare can also be reached at P.O. Box 43001, PMB 372 , Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 00745 or by contacting the CTA team at caribbeanottb@gmail.com.

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Canterbury: Wednesday’s $610,000 Racing Festival Draws Solid Fields

Canterbury Park's Northern Stars Racing Festival on June 23 has attracted several of the top trainers in the country as well as the Shakopee racetrack's best local trainers in pursuit of $610,000 in purses spread across six stakes.

The tenth running of the $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby drew a field of 11. Represented in the one mile turf stake is trainer Brad Cox with 3-year-old T D Dance. Cox is the second leading trainer nationally in purses earned in 2021 with $13.6 million, recently winning the Belmont Stakes with Essential Quality and training Kentucky Derby second-place finisher Mandaloun.

Michael Maker, sixth in the nation in purses with $5.9 million, entered both Grade 3 winner Chess's Dream and Shady McGee. Maker won the Mystic Lake Derby in 2018 and 2019.

Bodenheimer has two turf wins, a maiden race at Canterbury in July of last year and the Indian Summer at Keeneland in October. Trained by Valorie Lund and ridden by Ruben Fuentes, Bodenheimer, who drew post 11, will try a route of ground for the first time in the Derby.

Ian Wilkes attempts to win the Mystic Lake Derby for the second time having trained Giant Payday to a win in 2017 for owner Robert Lothenbach of Wayzata, Minn. Chris Landeros rode then and will have the mount June 23 on Modern Science for Wilkes and Lothenbach.

The field for the $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby is as follows:

King of Miami – Jareth Loveberry – Larry Rivelli – 8/1
Chess's Dream – Ricardo Santana, Jr. – Mike Maker – 4/1
Shadizaar – Shannon Uske – Peter Gulyas – 20/1
Sebastian's Boy – Luis Fuentes – Esteban Martinez – 15/1
Holy Vow – Sophie Doyle – Oscar Flores – 10/1
T D Dance – Florent Geroux – Brad Cox – 5/2
Shady McGee – Dean Butler – Mike Maker – 12/1
Modern Science – Chris Landeros – Ian Wilkes – 5/1
Bakwena – Chase Miller – Darrin Miller – 8/1
Go Speed Racer Go – Ezequiel Lara – Miguel Angel Silva – 20/1
Bodenheimer – Ruben Fuentes – Valorie Lund – 8/1

Two of the sport's top jockeys will also compete. Florent Geroux, fifth in the nation in purses earned with $8.7 million, will ride three entries for Cox. Ricardo Santana, Jr., currently seventh in earnings, will ride four for Michael Maker who has a lengthy history at Canterbury dating back to the 2008 Claiming Crown. Maker has won with 16 of 50 starters at Canterbury and earned $1.08 million in purses.

The $100,000 Curtis Sampson Oaks and the $100,000 Lady Canterbury Stakes each has a field of nine and are run at one mile on the turf. The $100,000 Dark Star Turf Sprint at five furlongs has eight. The $60,000 MTA Stallion Auction Stakes, at 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track, also has eight entrants.

Giant Payday, still owned by Lothenbach but now trained by Joel Berndt, will face the 2020 Mystic Lake Derby winner Summer Assault, trained by Michele Boyce, in the $100,000 Mystic Lake Mile along with defending champion Tut's Revenge who is ridden by Roimes Chirinos and trained by Clint Stuart.

Robertino Diodoro, three times the leading trainer at Canterbury and currently fifth in the nation in total wins with 116, has entries in the Mile and the Sprint. Diodoro is leading the current Canterbury meet with a record of 14 wins from 40 starts.

A night of stakes cannot go by without the involvement of Mac Robertson, 13-time training champion at Canterbury and leader in all-time purse earnings and wins. Robertson has entries in the Lady Canterbury, the Sprint and the Oaks.

The 10-race June 23 program begins at 5:10 p.m. CT. Canterbury offers an industry low 10 percent takeout on its non-jackpot $1 Pick Six and 50 cent Pick Five wagers with each concluding on the final race of the program.

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