July, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Emily Upjohn Ruled Out Of Irish Oaks Due To Travel Complications

An Emily Upjohn (GB)-shaped hole has been blown into the G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks after John and Thady Gosden were forced to rule the daughter of Sea The Stars (Ire) out of Saturday's Group 1 contest at the Curragh. As short as 2-5 with some betting firms, Emily Upjohn will miss the Curragh Classic after the Gosden team were faced with travel complications ahead of the journey across the Irish Sea.

The Jessica Harrington-trained Magical Lagoon (Ire) (Galileo) has hardened into a general even-money favourite for the Irish Oaks in Emily Upjohn's absence. The shock news means that just seven fillies will line out for the race with Emily Upjohn now being aimed at the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO S. at Ascot on July 23.

Thady Gosden said, “It is very frustrating. We thought all her bad luck had been used up at Epsom. The plane, which was going to be taking her to Ireland, they also use for Royal Mail. It was flying out of Edinburgh to pick her up and there was a bird strike. The plane that was meant to be taking her there now can't get her in time and they can't find another plane.”

He added, “Unfortunately, we are completely snookered. The King George is now obviously the option. Frustrating, especially when you train her for such a race.”

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Michelle Lovell Has Morning Line Favorites In Both Colonial Downs’ Monday Stakes

Two of the classier horses from trainer Michelle Lovell's stable have each earned morning line favoritism in a pair of $150,000 open turf sprints this Monday, July 18, at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va. Just Might, who will become a million-dollar earner with a win in the Van Clief Stakes, is 8-5 in the early odds while her Change of Control, with $833,725 in earnings, is 3-1 choice in the Andy Guest Stakes. They will be contested as the sixth and eighth races on a nine-race program.

Michelle Lovell and Griffon Farms' Just Might could have an edge in the eight-horse Van Clief based on a pair of stakes wins last summer at the New Kent track. The versatile 6-year-old Justin Phillip gelding won the six-furlong Chesapeake Stakes on dirt in the Mid Atlantic Thoroughbred Championship Series (MATCH) competition and also scored in the 5-1/2 furlong Da Hoss Stakes on turf. Just Might is fresh off a gate-to-wire victory in the Mighty Beau Stakes at Churchill, a race he won in 2021 as well. The five-furlong 2022 edition — which he won by two lengths — was taken off the turf. Rafael Bejarano will ride Monday from post 3.

George Sharp's Front Run the Fed is second in the line at 4-1. The 6-year-old Fed Biz horse has not raced since October. In 2020, he had a very respectable sixth-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, finishing just 2 1/2 lengths behind winner Glass Slippers. Front Run the Fed comes to Colonial with career earnings of $405,793. Multiple Eclipse Award-winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. will ride for trainer Caio Caramori.

Crown's Way Racing LLC and NBS Stable's Smokin' Jay fits well in this spot. The Kelsey Danner trainee is stakes-placed in five of his last seven stakes starts. The 4-year-old Cairo Prince colt won the Allied Forces Stakes at Belmont last September and most recently was eighth in the Grade 1 Jaipur Stakes, also at Belmont. Adam Beschizza will ride the Kentucky-bred from post six.

Perry Harrison's Change of Control, 3-1 early favorite in the Andy Guest for fillies and mares, was fourth in the recent Jaipur and finished just three lengths behind. The 6-year-old Fed Biz mare collected a pair of Grade 3 stakes wins in 2021 from the Intercontinental at Belmont in June and the Franklin County Stakes at Keeneland in October. Colby Hernandez, who rode Just Might to both Colonial stakes wins last summer, will be in the irons here for Lovell.

Klein Racing's Goin' Good, stakes placed in her last three at Churchill, Keeneland and Fair Grounds respectively, is listed at 4-1. The 4-year-old daughter of Congrats was third in the Unbridled Sidney and Giant's Causeway Stakes and second in the Mardi Gras. The Brad Cox trainee has been in-the-money in 9 of 11 career starts and has bankrolled $277,761.

CJ Thoroughbreds' Jeanie B impressed in both the '22 and '21 Grade 2 Royal North Stakes at Woodbine with respective defeats by a length and a nose. Two starts back, the 5-year-old Great Britain-bred was a neck shy in Woodbine's Long Branch Stakes. Reylu Gutierrez will ride for trainer Cam Gambolati from post 7.

The current Colonial Downs summer meet opened July 11 and will continue through September 7 with racing every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 1:45 PM. An average of $625,000 in purse monies will be distributed daily. The track is offering a daily Pick-5 wager with a low 12% takeout and a carryover element for the first time ever. The bet covers the last five races on the card.

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Slow Down: Bacteria May Be Linked To Equine Gastric Glandular Disease

A recent study has shown that a pathogenic bacteria called Sarcina may be associated with gastric ulcers in the glandular region of horse's stomachs. Sarcinca can slow the emptying of the stomach, possibly irritating its lining and causing ulcers.

Thoroughbred racehorses used in a study had up to 450 times more Sarcinca in their glandular ulcer microbiota than in their healthy glandular tissue. This strongly links Sarcinca and equine gastric glandular disease, reports The Horse.

Dr. Sarah Voss, an equine internal medicine clinical teaching associate in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, and colleagues performed gastroscopy to examine the differences in the stomachs of horses kept in the same environment which had glandular ulcers and those that did not.

The racehorses examined were all housed in the same training facility in Scotland; the study used five geldings and one mare between the ages of 2 and 7. All horses were examined twice and one additional horse was examined once.

All horses were fed free-choice haylage, concentrated feed, and chaff. None of the horses were performing as well as expected, so the trainer stopped training and asked for a veterinarian to scope for possible ulcers.

Ulcers were identified in the squamous and/or glandular region of every horse. The researchers brushed each lesion through the endoscope to obtain samples. They used additional brushes on healthy tissue near each lesion.

Ribosomal RNA sequencing was then run on all samples. The scientists found the dominant bacteria in healthy tissue was Proteobacteria. This bacterium was present 2.5 times more in healthy tissue than in glandular ulcers.

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The second most-abundant bacteria in healthy tissue was Firmicutes. However, Firmicutes was found in glandular ulcer samples as well – at twice the rate of its prevalence in healthy tissues. Voss hypothesizes that this most likely coincides with the increase of Sarcina, which is a Firmicutes bacterium.

Present in only 0.2 percent of healthy tissues, Sarcina was found in 92.4 percent of glandular lesions. The rates were very high in two of the three horses with equine gastric glandular disease (EGGD).

Though Sarcina is most likely part of the normal gastric microbiota, horses are most likely picking up Sarcina from the environment, the researchers said. It is also likely that the bacteria is associated with EGGD. In humans, Sarcina is linked to poor gastric emptying; horses with glandular ulcers that contain Sarcina may also have the same issues.

Voss encouraged veterinarians to look at gastric emptying time in horses suffering from EGGD; she believes it will play a role in better understanding EGGD.

The Friday Show Presented By Monmouth Park: Finding Winners In Saratoga With Andrew Champagne

The elite Saratoga Race Course meet offers some of the most appealing wagering opportunities on the calendar, and few in recent history have been able to find winners at the upstate New York track like Andrew Champagne.

Champagne, a content manager at Catena Media and formerly of the Daily Racing Form and TVG, is a five-time leading handicapper in The Saratogian's Pink Sheet, and he's a two-time all-media public handicapping champion for the Saratoga meet.

In 2021, he selected an impressive 142 winners in The Pink Sheet over the course of the season to lead all public media handicappers.

On this week's episode of The Friday Show, Champagne joins bloodstock editor Joe Nevills in the midst of opening weekend in Saratoga to share some tips on how to find winners at one of the sport's showcase meetings.

Champagne shares what makes a horse stands out in the past performances, what makes a runner an automatic toss, unsung trainers and jockeys who traditionally step their games up for Saratoga, and more.

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