Finding value when betting on horse racing is all about finding an angle others might have missed or zigging when other bettors are zagging, because in a pari-mutuel wagering pool it is your opinion against the other gamblers. That’s the focus in mapping out a strategy for the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor Stakes on Sunday at Woodbine.
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Ruis Purchases Blackwood Stables Training Center In Versailles
Horseman Mick Ruis, whose stable has raced primarily in Southern California, has purchased the 285-acre Blackwood Stables training center in Versailles, Ky.
Ruis, who owned and trained multiple Grade 1 winner Bolt d'Oro, the leading freshman sire of 2022, bought the property for $7,639,500 through Tom Biederman of Biederman Real Estate. Blackwood Stables, previously operated by Guinness McFadden, was listed with Ken Donworth of Bluegrass Sotheby's.
Biederman said the transaction closed Oct. 2.
“It made super sense to me since most of my horses are Kentucky-breds,” Ruis said. “With Kentucky running year-round and maiden special weight purses up to $120,000 or more, this fits my program. I couldn't get stalls and needed a place for my mares. And now I've got my own training facility.”
Ruis said he currently has 27 mares in Kentucky.
Blackwood Stables has 122 stalls in six barns – three barns for mares, weanlings and yearlings with 52 stalls and three more with 70 additional stalls for training. There is a six-furlong training track, one-mile grass course, and 1 1/8-mile wood-chip “European-style” gallop, Ruis said. Click here for photos and here for information on the farm from its previous owner.
The training facility is accredited with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for official workouts and gate cards.
“Jose Delima will be running all the training at Blackwood,” said Ruis, adding that his daughter Shelbe will oversee the California-breds. DeLima formerly trained in Southern California and has assisted Mick Ruis in California and Kentucky.
The purchase came shortly after Ruis sold the former Woodford Thoroughbreds farm, renamed Wen/Mick (for Ruis and his wife, Wendy), to Tom and Debi Stull of California-based Tommy Town Thoroughbreds. That property, also near Versailles, sold for $8 million, and Beiderman said it included 380 acres in total, a “nicely redone house, beautiful barns, and rolling land.”
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Australia: Everest Carnival Riches Continue At Rosehill Friday
The Everest Carnival enters its fourth week, with five stakes races worth AU$4.55 million this Friday night at Sydney's Rosehill Racecourse. A staggering total of AU$87 million will be distributed over the nine weekends of The Everest Carnival. The $20 million showpiece event will take place next week, as elite sprinters contest the world's richest race on turf. The Everest card on October 13 will also feature the inaugural King Charles III Stakes, worth $5 million.
The Everest Carnival continues through the Nov. running of the $10-million Golden Eagle, restricted to 4-year-olds. The first of 10 Rosehill races this Friday is at 9:40 p.m. Eastern / 6:40 p.m. Pacific and will be broadcast live by FanDuel TV and Sky Racing World.
Get the Cash with Nash
One of Sydney's hottest jockeys is Nash Rawiller. The 48-year-old is a three-time winner of Sydney's riding title, but has not worn that crown since 2012. Results during The Everest Carnival suggest that Rawiller is in career-best form: he went within a head of upsetting the G2 Premiere Stakes last week on 8-1 shot Hawaii Five Oh, after having ridden a triple (including a stakes double) on each of the two previous Friday nights. Five of Rawiller's seven mounts this Friday night are either favorite or second choice in early wagering. He is booked for #2 Peace Officer (5-2) in Race 2; #4 Way To The Stars (5-1) in Race 4; #2 Barber (8-1) in Race 5, the Roman Consul Stakes; #11 Montefilia (3-1) in Race 7, the $2 million Hill Stakes; #1 Cepheus (6-1) in Race 8, the Alan Brown Stakes; #5 Magic Time (3-1) in Race 9, the Nivison Stakes; and #4 Diamond Dealer (10-1) in Race 10.
Race Callers Honored
One of Friday night's stakes races holds special significance for me, having been named for retired Sydney race calling legends John Tapp and Ian Craig. “Tappy” was offered the Hollywood Park job in 1990, came for a working vacation with his family, and brought a 24-year-old race caller from Brisbane with him to finish off the meeting and potentially stay on. Thirty-three years later, yours truly has stayed like a mother-in-law. On a visit to Australia earlier this year, I had the enormous pleasure of visiting the Tapps, who invited Ian Craig around for a barbecue.
The second running of the $500,000 Tapp-Craig Stakes (Race 6), for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs, is headed by the rapidly improving Encap (6-5). After breaking his maiden in a Group 3, Encap went within a nose of beating Militarize in the G1 Golden Rose. This led to connections having a brief flirtation with a slot offer for The Everest, before settling on this more realistic spot.
Countdown to The Everest
The world's richest race on turf, staged under a slot-holder format, is now just a week away on Friday night, Oct. 13 (U.S. time).
- Hawaii Five Oh's slashing second in last week's G2 Premiere Stakes earned the hulking sprinter a slot.
- Mazu, who was a late scratch from the Premiere, proved his fitness with a good second on Tuesday morning in a star-studded “barrier trial” (training race). Four other candidates for The Everest contested the five-furlong trial, in which Overpass led throughout.
- Shinzo, winner of the Golden Slipper (world's richest 2-year-old race) who disappointed off a layoff in the seven-furlong Golden Rose, has earned a slot after a satisfactory third-place finish in the aforementioned trial/training race. Jockey Kerrin McEvoy, three-time winner of The Everest in the young race's six-year history, has been booked.
- Espiona, last-start winner of a G2 Filly and Mare race at seven furlongs, has earned a slot. Hugh Bowman, now based in Hong Kong and leading the jockey standings for the current season, will return to ride Espiona for trainer Chris Waller, reviving the partnership made famous by the great Winx.
- Australian Zac Purton, reigning champion jockey in Hong Kong, has been engaged for Godolphin mare In Secret (who finished fourth in the same Tuesday trial/training race).
- The final available slot will likely go to imported mare Alcohol Free, who finished fourth last week in the Premiere Stakes off a layoff.
The Rosehill card will be broadcast live on FanDuel TV this Friday night (First Post: 9:40 p.m. ET / 6:40 p.m. PT) alongside cards from Eagle Farm, Kembla Grange and Kalgoorlie. All races will be live-streamed in HD on the new Sky Racing World App, skyracingworld.com and major ADW platforms such as TVG, TwinSpires, Xpressbet, NYRABets, WatchandWager, HPIbet, FanDuel and AmWager. Wagering is also available via these ADW platforms. Fans can get free access to live-streaming, past performances, and expert picks on all races at skyracingworld.com.
A native of Brisbane, Australia, Michael Wrona has called races in six countries. Michael's vast U.S. experience includes; race calling at Los Alamitos, Hollywood Park, Arlington and Santa Anita, calling the 2000 Preakness on a national radio network and the 2016 Breeders' Cup on the International simulcast network. Michael also performed a race call voiceover for a Seinfeld episode called The Subway.
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