Races to look forward to in 2011

Miss Diana for the gold circle oaks

Barry , allow me to ask you what plans you have for that youngster, it would be nice if you could name him , which is a couple of pounds better than Pluck ?
Have you considered sending both to Ireland ?

His name is Badleroibrown and he is by Leroidesanimaux out of Ginger Sea, by Western Winter. We will not bring him back to the races until the spring. He is a very big colt. He got beat a head at Churchill Downs running around 2 turns in his debut and it set him back a bit, because it was a hard race. He could be anything. I bought the sire for a breeder before he was voted Champion Turf Horse and I bought the dam from Robin Bruss, who bought her as a yearling and raced her with his brother Neil. She was a bad bleeder. I bought into her to race her in America, but she was such a bad bleeder that she bled one morning during her normal exercise routtine so she was retired. Badleroibrown apparently has not inherited this trait from the dam.

Pluck will race twice in the spring, then be flown to Ireland just in advance of the Two Thousand Guineas.

Thanks for your sportsmanship !

Workforce 5/1 to win this years Arc(tu)

The 5/1 Uncle Mo has gone(tu)

Gitano Hernando and Bold Silvano both 12/1 for the WC

Ancestral force Melbourne Cup? 50/1 +

Go with Bold Silvano for the World Cup>>pity Interbet not up with this betting??

I spose the local SA bookies once again would price him up as they do every SA horse running in dubai at 8/10 to win the world cup!

Will see what I can do Oscar but you are looking at around 10/1

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Well Oscar good call but you wont get 10/1 now

Has gone around 5/1

So depending on how well Musir has trained on or recovered from his injury in Australia, MDK has a pretty strong hand in the World Cup?
Not forgetting about Reihana, even though she will have it all to do imo.

PLUCK BEGINS HIS CLASSIC CAMPAIGN SATURDAY AT TAMPA BAY DOWNS,

BREEDERS’ CUP HERO TO RUN A MILE ON GRASS IN AN ALLOWANCE RACE,

TOMORROW’S RACE WILL SERVE AS PREP FOR A GRADE 3 AT KEENELAND

Pluck will begin his 3-year-old season tomorrow under modest circumstances in an allowance race with a $27,000 purse at Tampa Bay Downs, passing the $150,000, Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes the same afternoon at nearby Gulfstream Park. Post time for race number 7 is projected to be 3:20 p. m. Pluck has drawn the advantageous number 2 post position in a full field of 10 sophomores, with the most serious challenger on the rail.

Pluck finished his 2-year-old season in a rally, reeling off consecutive victories in the Grade 2 Summer Stakes going a mile on soft turf at Woodbine. He came back to win the $1-million, Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf in a performance that was voted in a Thoroughbred Daily News on-line poll as the most nightmarish trip for a winner in 2011.

The first major goal for Pluck, who is now owned in partnership by The Vinery after Team Valor International sold a substantial interest last season, is the May 15 French Two Thousand Guineas equivalent. Motion has designated two prep races: tomorrow’s Tampa allowance followed by the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes on April 8, which is opening day at Keeneland.

“I am sure that this will look funny to some people,” Motion said. “Here we are, the favorite for a Grade 3 at Gulfstream, running instead in a lowly allowance race at Tampa, but I think this is the right race for Pluck to start off in.

“He should prefer the more lush Tampa turf over the harder surface at Gulfstream Park and he definitely will enjoy the mile rather than the mile and an eighth. I think he is ready to run well. Animal Kingdom, the colt he’s been working well with, ran a cracker first time out for us at Gulfstream, so I feel that Pluck should be fit enough for a mile race.”

The one to beat tomorrow is Lil Bit O’ Fun, a Langfuhr gelding that has 2 wins in 5 starts, including earning a 13 on the Ragozin Sheets when breaking his maiden at Churchill Downs in the fall. In a pair of subsequent starts at 3, he ran off and stopped badly as the 8 to 5 choice for the Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park and returned in a spot identical to tomorrow’s race when he came from off the pace to finish strongly for third beaten a length with an 11 Ragozin topper.

Pluck paired up 11s on The Sheets when third in the Continental Mile and winning the Summer, then spiked an 8 ½ in his troubled but successful victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.