Fair Grounds Today - Jan 4th

Fair Grounds Recap – Jan 3rd

Fast main track and good turf. Four wire jobs on the main with sprint races especially speed favoring. Turf course played fair with a wire job, a stalker, and two closers making up the four winners.

Riding doubles for Shaun Bridgmohan, Corey Lanerie, and Jamie Theriot. Steve Margolis saddled two winners on the day.

Quiet Temper (Albarado-Romans) easily made it through her entry level route in the 4^th. The Delta Princess (G3) winner made all the running and is likely headed back to the stakes ranks in short order. Recent graduate Bella Medaglia was easily 2^nd best. Final time for the mile and forty yard contest was 1:40.90.

Skipping Town was probably best in the 7^th, an optional claiming turf sprint for fillies and mares. The favored Sam Ishaq runner was up close early before encountering trouble. She dropped back after getting checked, and she came again to miss by less than a length.

Stay Put (Theriot-Margolis) rallied from 10^th and last to win the optional claiming 8^th for 3yo males. He ran down fav Wordly to win by a length in 1:40.67. Hotep ran well to finish 4^th in his first try on regular dirt. Wow Wow Wow (5^th) was wide throughout and made a bid before flattening out in the lane. He broke his maiden in wire job fashion and is one to watch for Wayne Lukas.

A press box view of Fair Grounds Race Course

On the analysis front, I got home 5-1 top Snakebite Kit. I also successfully tabbed the 4^th race exacta, the 5^th race superfecta, and the pick three ending with the 5^th race.

Fair Grounds Preview – Jan 4th

A 9-race program will be run on Monday at the Fair Grounds. Mostly sunny skies are expected with a high temperature of 46. Pick 6 carryover of $26,280.

My daily full cards from Fair Grounds are available through Today’s Racing Digest (free sign up), and I will be posting a daily free pick on their site as well. Click here to view my Monday free selection (6^th race) from Fair Grounds.

The trainer to watch on Monday is Cody Autrey, and he is clicking at a 34% rate at the current stand. He has live wires Parc Des Princes (4-1) in the 4^th and Beaudacious Hit (4-1) in the 7^th. Corey Lanerie rides the latter. He is coming off a two-win day on Sunday, and he’s my jockey to watch.

My MySpace free selection of the day is the 3rd race from Fair Grounds.

My Horse Racing Nation free selection of the day is the 9th race from Fair Grounds.

Daily results and video from Fair Grounds can be found here.

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