January, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Pick 6 Carryover Of $42,913 For Sunday’s Card At Aqueduct

Sunday's nine-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack will feature a Pick 6 carryover of $42,913 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday.

The $1 Pick 6 on Friday returned $529.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.

The Pick 6 sequence began in Race 4 when Cover Photo [No. 5, $14.60] earned her second win in a row under jockey Ailsa Morrison in a claiming race for trainer Luis Miranda. Race 5 saw Our Man Mike [No. 6, $20.40] take a state-bred allowance by 2 1/2 lengths for trainer Horacio DePaz with Trevor McCarthy up before the Danny Gargan-trained The Cobbler [No. 5, $15.80] broke his maiden at first asking in Race 6 with Manny Franco in the irons.

Patrick Reynolds sent out Hammerin Aamer [No. 6, $6.80] to take a $40,000 claimer in Race 7, guided to victory by Dylan Davis. Yankee Division [No. 2B, $6.50] came home the best of two entries for trainer Rudy Rodriguez in Race 8, scoring his second win in a row in the state-bred optional claimer to give Trevor McCarthy his second win on the card.

The Honorable Ruth [No. 11, $8.10] took down the final leg of the Pick 6, coming home in Race 9 with Jalon Samuel up to break her maiden for trainer Ray Handal.

With live racing at Aqueduct canceled on Saturday due to extreme cold, live racing will return on Sunday with a nine-race card featuring the $100,000 Ladies in Race 8. The Pick 6 will kick off in Race 4 with a 1:48 p.m. Eastern post. First post is 12:20 p.m.

America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the winter meet at Aqueduct Racetrack on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Aqueduct Racetrack, and the best way to bet every race of the winter meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.

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Santa Anita Bids Adieu To Beloved Bartender Frank Panza

Santa Anita Park extends its heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the track's all-time longest tenured bartender, Frank Panza, who passed away Wednesday evening at age 91 following a lengthy battle with cancer. A longtime resident of Laguna Niguel, Panza, who passed away at home with his sister Gloria by his side, negotiated a 65-mile daily commute to work at what he often described as a “dream job.”

Employed for some 59 years at Santa Anita and known to thousands of racegoers over the years as a tremendous mixologist and valued friend and confidant in the original Turf Club Chandelier Room and later, in the track's main Club House bar, was the very definition of top-shelf customer service, as he greeted regulars and newcomers alike with a sunny disposition and unflagging attention to detail.

Panza, who was born May 28, 1930 in Ohio, first came to work at Santa Anita in December, 1961 and he served some of the biggest names in the worlds of entertainment and sports throughout an amazing career that ended due to a COVID related shutdown on March 8, 2020.

Retired LA Times columnist Chris Erskine described Panza thusly in a story written Oct. 29, 2014: “This Panza guy's still a beautiful thing, though. Look at the hair, thick as a turf course. The smile, full of Italian Twinkle. And listen to his stories, gleaned from a half century as Santa Anita's Damon Runyon.”

In the same story, Panza, who recounted serving countless sports and entertainment icons such as Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Howard Hughes, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin Jackie Gleason and Walter Matheau, was asked about his experience.

“There'll never be another bar like that,” he said in reference to the Chandelier Room. “I couldn't wait to come to work. They would come in minks, dressed to the hilt. Elizabeth Montgomery used to bring me ties…I don't think there's a saloon in the world that had that kind of clientele. I was like a kid in a candy store.”

And later, Erskine asked Panza, who was himself a dues-paying SAG member and bit television and movie actor, who in all the years he worked, was his favorite customer.

“The greatest, Sinatra. He used to call me Frangi. My Italian nickname.”

Funeral services for Frank Panza will take place this coming week with a memorial to follow here at Santa Anita in February.

Rest in Peace, Frank, may you never be forgotten.

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Strike Power to Stand in Louisiana

GSW and 'TDN Rising Star' Strike Power (Speightstown–Gold d'Oro, by Medaglia d'Oro) was purchased by breeder Nathan Granger in partnership with Jay Adcock's Red River Farm, where he will stand stud in Louisiana. The deal was brokered by Jack Brothers of Hidden Brook Farm. He will stand the 2022 season for $2,000 LFSN.

Owned and bred by Don and Donna Adam's Courtlandt Farm, Strike Power retires with a record of 20-4-4-1 and earnings of $497,935. His career was highlighted by a win in the 2018 GIII Swale S.

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Straight Up G Could Try Derby Trail After Cal Cup Derby

A lights-out winner of his last two starts, Jungle Racing LLC's homebred Straight Up G appears a standout versus five sophomores going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday's $200,000 California Cup Derby at Santa Anita.

One of five California Cup Day races on a 10-race program, the Cal Cup Derby will be center stage as Straight Up G and his rivals attempt to follow in the footsteps of the Art Sherman-trained California Chrome, who used the 2014 Cal Cup Derby as a springboard to glory in the Santa Anita and Kentucky Derbies as well as the 2014 Preakness Stakes.

Like California Chrome, the Richard Baltas-trained Straight Up G, a bay colt by red hot sire Straight Fire, out of the Sky Mesa mare Gidget Girl, comes off a big win versus statebreds in the one mile King Glorious Stakes run at Los Alamitos on Dec. 12.

“He's doing everything really easily,” said Baltas on Friday morning. “Last time, he handled the two turns with no problem. He's still growing, he big, he's good looking and he's got a good mind. Hopefully he can get this done tomorrow and then maybe we can tackle open company. He's got size, he's got length. The other day, he went five eighths, I got him in 59 and four (fifths), they gave him a minute and one and he galloped out (six furlongs) in 1:13 and one. He did that all on his own, he was by himself.

“I think he wants to go farther. I really don't think he's a sprinter. He's got a lot of natural speed and he looks like a good, solid route horse. The sire's had nothing but runners, so we'll see how far this horse can go.”

Owned and bred by sports talk icon Jim Rome and his wife Janet's Jungle Racing, Straight Up G debuted as an even money favorite going 5 ½ furlongs here on Oct. 9, but finished a disappointing fourth. Subsequently off at 4-5 in a six furlong maiden special versus Cal-breds on Nov. 21 at Del Mar, he aired by 5 ¼ lengths, earning a lofty 80 Beyer Speed Figure.

Off at 2-1 in the King Glorious, he led throughout in a thoroughly dominant performance, winning by 3 ½ lengths over Finneus, who he will again face on Saturday while earning a 75 Beyer.

With Ricky Gonzalez back to ride for a third consecutive time, Straight Up G appears headed for the deep waters of the Kentucky Derby Trail should he replicate his performance in the King Glorious on Saturday.

Like California Chrome, Straight Up G has to be considered a bit “light” in terms of his maternal pedigree, as his first dam, the Sky Mesa mare Gidget Girl, who although she has produced a talented half sister to Straight Up G, the Baltas-trained Gidgetta (three wins from 11 starts, earnings of $154,309) was unraced and his second dam, Rome's Brazilian-bred Surfer Girl, finished her career 11-1-5-1, with her lone win coming in her native Brazil.

As for his sire, Straight Fire, he was a highly regarded juvenile who sold for $250,000 as a yearling and finished second as the 4-5 favorite in the 2016 Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity. Subsequently third in Santa Anita's G1 FrontRunner Stakes, he retired with one win from four starts and earnings of $146,400.

With the Cal Cup Derby carded early as race three on Saturday, Straight Up G will hope to issue an emphatic keynote speech on a day dedicated to California-breds. Drawn in post position four and installed as the 4-5 morning line favorite by Line Maker Jon White, Straight Up G will no doubt have the attention of all those eyeing the Derby Trail.

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