Robin Goodfellow’s Racing Tips: Best bets for Monday, August 24
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Monday's meetings at Bath, Ayr, and Southwell.
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Red King Gives Red-Hot D’Amato Sixth Del Mar Handicap Victory In Seven Years
The victory by Red King in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Del Mar Handicap brought attention to the rise of Phil D'Amato in the Del Mar trainer standings and the increased success of his stable after a chilly start.
At the delayed start of the second week of the meeting, Friday, July 31, D'Amato runners had two wins in 23 starts. Subsequent start-the-weekend numbers were: 3-for-29 on August 7, 7-for-43 on August 14 and 11 for 51 last Friday.
With one win Friday and two Saturday – the D'Amato/Umberto Rispoli combination followed up the Handicap victory with Salvator Mundi ($11.20) in the 11th race nightcap – D'Amato now has 14 wins from 60 starters and only trails Peter Miller by one on the leaderboard.
“Things have been clicking well the second half of the meet,” D'Amato said via text. “All those horses that finished second and third at the beginning of the meet have been able to come back and win. That really helps.
“Also, the ability to breeze turf horses on the turf here at Del Mar has really helped. I think it keeps the grass horses happier and they perform better in their races.”
Red King, a 6-year-old son of English Channel bred by Calumet Farm and owned by Little Red Feather Racing, had five works on the Del Mar turf leading up to his first start since a June 21 victory in the San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita.
Given a masterful ride by Rispoli, Red King was able to pull off a $10.60 upset of heavy favorite United. The Handicap, sponsored by the Japan Racing Association, is a “Win and You're In” qualifier for the Breeders' Cup Turf in November at Keeneland.
D'Amato has now won the last four editions of the Del Mar Handicap and six of the last seven. After back-to-back victories in 2014-'15 with Big John B, D'Amato won with Hunt in 2017, Fashion Business in 2018 and Acclimate in 2019.
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$450,000 Guaranteed Rainbow 6 Jackpot Thursday At Gulfstream
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $450,000 Thursday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the eighth racing day in a row Sunday, when tickets with all six winners were each worth $367.92.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners.
On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
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Munnings ‘Rising Star’ Gets the Bob in Catch a Glimpse
‘TDN Rising Star’ Alda got up in the shadow of the wire to take Sunday’s Catch a Glimpse S. narrowly over a fellow granddaughter of Speightstown in Dreaming of Drew (Speightster). A fast-finishing third against the boys going five grassy furlongs at Belmont June 12, the chestnut broke through convincingly over an extra eighth of a mile there July 9.
Drifting up to 5-2 at the off after vying for favoritism early with big-figure second-out graduate Dreaming of Drew, the Wertheimer homebred dropped out the back early and a snug Steven Bahen hold. She scraped paint while advancing into the stretch, and drafted behind Dreaming of Drew at the head of the lane as that one tried desperately to get off the inside and reel in pacesetter Illegal Smile (Ire) (Camacho {GB}). Alda veered out wide as Dreaming of Drew struck the front, and she kept coming to get in a photo that to the naked eye seemed like it may have gone the other way.
“I had talked to [trainer Graham Motion] this morning and I watched her races yesterday,” said Bahen. “She’s got a real big kick and we discussed that we should just be off the pack, three or four off would be nice. I ended up being a little further back than I wanted to, and she gave me that run she has.”
The winner’s dam is a full to two-turn MGSW Exhi. She produced an Into Mischief colt in 2019 and Tapit colt this season. Further down the page are a number of Canadian champions from the 1970s.
CATCH A GLIMPSE S., C$105,200, Woodbine, 8-23, 2yo, f,
6 1/2fT, 1:14.00, fm.
1–ALDA, 120, f, 2, by Munnings
1st Dam: Soldata, by Maria’s Mon
2nd Dam: Soldera, by Polish Numbers
3rd Dam: La Pepite, by Mr. Prospector
‘TDN Rising Star‘ 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O/B-Wertheimer et
Frere (KY); T-H. Graham Motion; J-Steven Ronald Bahen.
C$60,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $88,413. *1/2 t
Alignement (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), GSW-Fr, SP-Qa, $408,561.
2–Dreaming of Drew, 120, f, 2, Speightster–Dreaming of Liz, by
El Prado Ire). ($95,000 RNA Ylg ’19 FTKJUL). O-Hoolie Racing
Stable, LLC; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (ON); T-Barbara J. Minshall.
C$24,000.
3–Illegal Smile (Ire), 118, f, 2, Camacho (GB)–Fine If (Ire), by
Iffraaj (GB). (€35,000 Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Hat Creek Racing;
B-W. Maxwell Ervine (IRE); T-Wesley A. Ward. C$11,000.
Margins: NO, 1 1/4, 7. Odds: 2.65, 0.90, 6.55.
Also Ran: Emmeline, Road to Romance, Purrsuade Me. Scratched: Ostracize.
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