Knock knock.
Who's there?
Keeneland!
The Keeneland Friday and Saturday cards have been drawn, you can download your past performances at Brunowiththeworks.com with your current subscription.
Friday's card kicks off the Keeneland meet with three Stakes, including Breeders Cup preps for 2yo fillies on the turf and dirt divisions plus the Phoenix, a BC prep for the sprint.
We will have full workout report and videos for the entire card. Stay tuned on availability.
Saturday's 5 Stakes include the two-year-old boys in the Claiborne, the Coolmore turf mile with Aidan o'Brien taking on three (3) Chad Brown runners.
I can't wait to dive in to the cards myself.
Keeneland, every year, puts a handicappers delicacies out for the horseplayers.
It's one of my favorite times of the year.
We have been stationed at Keeneland year around, but one word to the wise, during the month of September Keeneland clears the backside, except for a stretch of barns on Rice Road, Wesley Ward, George Arnold, Cherie Devaux are mainstays on the track and keep their good strings on Rice Road.
After the yearling sale is over, they re-open the stable area and barns are in the process of shipping back in, so, it's interesting that some of the barns that enjoy success at this track are those that are stabled on Rice Road.
You know many, many handicappers don't know that little fact.
Horses ship in to race from everywhere, at Keeneland, one fall I counted 27 different training facilities or tracks, horses came from, and they win from everywhere.
So, handicappers have a habit of believing fairy tales and myths, the home court advantage is really limited at Keeneland, and even though there is no statistical advantage in being stabled on the host track grounds, and working over the track, horseplayers will come up with la la land angles. You don't have to be one of them.
Follow what makes sense, if a horse is doing well so be it.
Jockeys and trainers from all over the country come to ride at Keeneland, everyone, from everywhere. Trainers from all walks of life show up here, and take their swings. Elite trainers Chad Brown, Brad Cox, Bob Baffert, Bill Mott have had their biggest scores as they try to get their biggest horses primed for the Breeders Cup.
Let's face it, if horseplayers were asked if they were going to Disneyland they'd say "Yes, in Lexington Kentucky, Keeneland"
The main track at Keeneland can be hard on wide trips, or closers, but there will be the occassional melt downs on the main and someone comes from the clouds, but rarely wide, more like up with inside trips.
The turf course is heaven, the best turf course in the country. Firm turf plays to all styles, good and slower plays to speed, as a rule of thumb.
So, get tied on, get your credits, or ALL-INCLUSIVE ACCESS we are on our yearly Fall Breeders Cup venture but not before getting some Bread Pudding and some Keeneland moolah at the windows.
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