November, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Weekend Lineup: Female Sprinters Highlight Saturday’s Action, Mighty Heart Returns On Sunday

A quartet of graded stakes races highlight this weekend's racing action across North America, but Saturday's highlight is the $300,000 Dream Supreme Stakes at Churchill Downs featuring the rematch of top female sprinters Bell's the One and Sconsin. Both skipped a trip to the Breeders' Cup World Championships last weekend, and return in this spot to renew their rivalry.

Saturday

3:56 p.m. – Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes at Woodbine

Ten fillies and mares will travel 1 ¼ miles on the Tapeta in Saturday's Maple Leaf Stakes. Starters include the Mark Casse-trained foursome of Art of Almost, Broadway Lady, Crystal Glacier and Skygaze. Graham Motion will send out Sister Otoole, a 4-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Amira's Prince (IRE), who sports a 2-3-3 record from 10 starts.

Maple Leaf Entries

4:36 p.m. – Grade 2 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine

The seven-furlong main track feature for fillies and mares, three-years-old and upward, has drawn nine starters, including Juxtapose. Trained by Steve Owens, the Kentucky-bred heads into her second straight stakes date after notching a third in the Grade 3 Ontario Matron on Oct. 10 at Woodbine.

Bessarabian Entries

5:36 p.m. – $300,000 Dream Supreme Stakes at Churchill Downs

Bell's The One and Sconsin will face one another for the sixth time in their careers on Saturday beneath the Twin Spires, this time over six furlongs. The last time they met, Sconsin bested Bell's the One by a half-length in the Open Mind Stakes on Sept. 18. However, Bell's the One came back to win the G2 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland, and Sconsin hasn't raced since the Open Mind, so recent form could give Bell's the One the edge.//

Dream Supreme Entries

Sunday

4:35 p.m. – Grade 2 Autumn Stakes at Woodbine

Eight hopefuls, including multiple graded stakes winner Special Forces, reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Mighty Heart, and 2019 Belmont Stakes champ Sir Winston, are set to contest Sunday's Autumn Stakes. Special Forces will chase his second Autumn score, having won the 1 1/16-mile Tapeta event for 3-year-olds and upward two years ago.

Autumn Entries

7:00 p.m. – Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar

Bob Baffert has three of the five 2-year-olds in the lineup for the seven-furlong headliner, including Messier, Kamui, and Winning Map. Also in the lineup are Rock N Rye and Forbidden Kingdom, though trainer Walther Solis plans to scratch Rock N Rye in favor of entering him in a state-bred stakes later in the meet.

Bob Hope Entries

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Maclean’s Music Filly ‘Nose’ Her Way Home

1st-Del Mar, $71,500, Msw, 11-12, 2yo, f, 5fT, :57.37, fm, nose.
UNBRIDLED MARY (f, 2, Maclean's Music–Bauble, by Tale of the Cat) amassed a very imposing worktab, capped by a strong half-mile gate move in :47 4/5 (3/37) at Santa Anita Nov. 7, and was off right at her morning-line odds of 4-1. Hustled along early by Joe Bravo, the bay traveled sweetly inside on the turn and was angled out sharply into the three path on the swing for home. Whether by design or not, Unbridled Mary dropped back down to the rail with an eighth of a mile to race and closed off powerfully to find the line just to the good of Pammy's Ready (More Than Ready). A $39,000 graduate of last year's KEESEP sale, Unbridled Mary breezed a furlong in a steady :10 3/5 (see below) and was hammered down for $155,000 at this year's Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita 2YOs In Training Sale. The last listed produce for her dam, Unbridled Mary is out of a half-sister to GISW Persistently (Smoke Glacken). Sales history: $39,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $155,000 2yo '21 FTSANA. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $42,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-West Point Thoroughbreds, Pearl Racing & Mark Pine; B-Merriebelle Stable LLC (KY); T-John W Sadler.

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Jockey Kyle Frey Nearing 1,000-Win Milestone At Del Mar

Jockey Kyle Frey enters Friday's program at Del Mar with 998 wins from 5,903 career starts according to Equibase statistics. He's scheduled aboard three mounts in the eight-race program and is booked for three more on Saturday and six on Sunday.

The 29-year-old from Tracy, Calif., said he has been aware of his proximity to the milestone 1,000th victory for “a week or two,” but is approaching it philosophically.

“I embrace it, but I'm not thinking about it or paying attention to it that much,” Frey said. “I've noticed that sometimes when guys near a milestone they slow down – I don't if it's because they're too aware or nervous or what. I'm not nervous, I'm just trying to go out and do my best to win every race.”

Frey has 157 wins from 759 mounts with purse earnings of $4.1 million and ranks 50th among jockeys nationally for money won this year. He came to the summer meeting with plans to ride a few days at Del Mar and then return to Golden Gate Fields in San Francisco, where he was among the top riders.

He won two races the second day of the local meeting, then the Fleet Treat Stakes on I'm So Anna for trainer Steve Sherman on the second weekend and tabled the notion of returning to Northern California. He notched 14 wins from 145 mounts with purse earnings of nearly $1 million and finished eighth in the rider standings for the 31-day session, a breakthrough time in what has become the best season of his career, topping $4 million in purse earnings for the first time since 2011.

“That (summer meeting) meant everything,” Frey said. “I owe it to the trainers who gave me a chance on good horses. I was able to execute to their plans early and things worked out well.”

With 12 mounts over the next three days, Frey estimated chances are “pretty good” he'll be able to put 1,000 wins in the rearview mirror.

“Anytime you're in a race, you've got a chance,” Frey said.

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Baffert To Saddle Three Out Of Five Entries In Sunday’s Bob Hope Stakes

Trainer Bob Baffert has Sunday's Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar surrounded.

The white-haired, Hall of Fame conditioner has not one, not two, but three of the five 2-year-olds in the lineup for the seven-furlong headliner that carries a $100,000 purse. It will go as the day's 8th race on a nine-race program that has a first post of 12:30 p.m.

The Baffert threesome consists of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, et al's Messier; Baoma Corp's Kamui, and HRH Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud's Winning Map.

The rest of the compact lineup is filled by Lovingier, London or Zondio's Rock N Rye and MyRacehorse.com and Spendthrift Farm's Forbidden Kingdom.

However, trainer Walther Solis indicating Friday morning that Rock N Rye would be scratched from the Hope in favor of a stakes for California breds later on.

Baffert is the king of the 2-year-old set at Del Mar – and he's some degree of royalty at other tracks around the country in that regard, too. By way of example locally, he's won Del Mar's top race for 2-year-olds, the Del Mar Futurity, 14 times. When it comes to the Bob Hope, which has been run locally seven times, Baffert has headed to the winner's circle after it four times already.

Here's the full field in post-position order with riders and morning line odds:

Messier (Flavien Prat, 8/5)
Kamui (Abel Cedillo, 5/2)
Winning Map (Mike Smith, 7/5)
Rock N Rye (Umberto Rispoli, 15-1)
Forbidden Kingdom (Juan Hernandez, 9/2)

Favored Winning Map has run only once, but, not surprisingly, it was a dandy. The gray colt by Liam's Map scooted six furlongs at Santa Anita in 1:10.20 on October 3 to win by better than four lengths at 2-5. He's put in a series of solid works since.

Messier clicked by more than six lengths in his second start October 22 at Santa Anita in the same 1:10.20 for six furlongs. He's a bay colt by Empire Maker.

Stablemate Kamui, a Quality Road offspring, was a six-length winner at Los Alamitos on September 11 in his most recent outing.

Forbidden Kingdom, a son of Triple Crown champion American Pharoah, scored at first asking at Del Mar on August 21, then came back to run third in the Speakeasy Stakes on the grass at Santa Anita on October 1. He's trained by Hall of Fame conditioner Richard Mandella.

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