Monday, May 1, 2017

Carryovers at Gulfstream. Tampa Bay

Gulfstream Park will resume racing on Wednesday with nine races and first post of 1:15 p.m.

There is a carryover of $32,283.31 on the Rainbow 6, on races four through nine.
Gulfstream will have a carryover of $7,101.89 on its Super Hi-5. It has that bet on all races with seven or more starters. 
 

Barring scratches. it will be offered on Wednesday’s  first race which has seven entrants.
The Super Hi-5 is  $1 minimum bet that requires picking the first five finishers  in correct order. There are no consolation payoffs, such as picking the first four places.

*Tampa Bay Downs’s next live race day will be Friday, with nine races and first post of  12::33 p.m.

There will be an overnight carryover of $6,649 on the Super High 5. 

Like the  Gulfstream bet. it requires picking the first five finishers in correct order, with no consolation payoffs.
Tampa Bay has that bet on all races with seven or  more starters.

Barring any scratches, it will be offered in Friday’s first race which has seven entrants.


Sunday, April 30, 2017

Royal Squeeze Wins Jeblar at Gulfstream

Royal Squeeze took the lead entering the stretch and went on to beat Tiger Blood by 1 3/4 lengths in Sunday's $75,000 Jeblar Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Mylute finished third, another half length back in the seven-furlong dirt stakes for 3-year-olds and up. Hy Riverside and Zulu, the 4-5 favorite, followed in the five-horse field.

Royal Squeeze, at 7-1, won in 1:22.10 on the track  listed as fast.
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Tyler Gaffalione rode Royal Squeeze for trainer Ralph Nicks and owner Newtown Anner Stud.

Royal Squeeze, a Florida-bred, is a 5-year-old non-gelded son of Wildcat Heir.  The win was Royal Squeeze's fourth  in 15 career starts.

5 -ROYAL SQUEEZE    16.40  5.00  5.60
3 -TIGER BLOOD                    3.60  3.80
2 -MYLUTE                                       6.80
$2 EXACTA 5-3 PAID $53.80; $1 TRIFECTA 5-3-2  PAID $96.10; 10 CENT SUPERFECTA 5-3-2-6 PAID $15.56.


Jeblar Stakes at Gulfstream is Dowm to Five

The field for Sunday's $75,000 Jeblar Stakes at Gulfstream is  down to five horses following the scratch of Hy Kodiak  Warrior by his  trainer Antonio Sano.

Tiger Blood and Zulu are the likely favorites in the seven-furlong  dirt stakes for3-year-olds and up.  It is the ninth race with scheduled post of 5:34 p.m.

Zulu, trained by Todd Pletcher. is two-for-two at seven  furlongs at Gulfstream. That includes a win in the Margate  Stakes last Dec.  18. Edgard Zayas has the mount in the Jeblar.

Tiger Blood, trained by Darien Rodriguez, is  shipping in from Tampa Bay Downs with his  regular  jockey Pablo Morales.

Tiger Blood has a two-race win streak at Tampa Bay--in the  Florida  Cup Sprint and the Pelican Stakes.  Both races were six furlongs on dirt.

Royal Squeeze, with Tyler Gaffalione riding for Ralph Nicks, is the only horse in the Jeblar with a  history of early speed.

Mylute (Nicks-Luca Panici) and Hy Riverside (Sano-Miguel Vasquez) also are in the Jeblar field.
--Jim Freer


Sunday Preview: Sprint Stakes at Gulfstream; Centeno on Seven at Tampa




Florida’s Sunday  racing will get underway at 12:55 p.m. with a nine-race card at Tampa  Bay Downs.

Gulfstream  Park has a ten-race Sunday card with first post of 1:15 p.m.

Conditions are listed as fast and firm at both tracks.

Gulfstream Park

Gulfstream’s Sunday feature is the Jeblar Stakes, at seven furlongs on dirt for3-year-olds and  up.

The Jeblar is the ninth race, with scheduled post of 5:34 p.m. We will have a preview of that race early this afternoon on our blog, which can be accessed on the menu bar at the top of the home page of this Web site.

There is a carryover of $16,220 on the Rainbow 6—on races five through ten.

Tampa Bay Downs
Daniel Centeno is listed on mounts in seven races, as he seeks to wrap up what would be his sixth jockeys’ title at Tampa Bay.

Centeno rode four winners on Saturday, giving him 100 for the 2016-2017 meet as it heads into its final five race days.

Edwin Gonzalez is a distant second in the jockey standings with 80 wins.

Centeno’s Sunday mounts are in the first, third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth races.




ichael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier