...some horse in here will probably wind up in (and have no impact in) the 2015 Derby.
13 pre-entries and the field is limited to 10. Field draws in on November 18:
http://www.drf.com/news/13-pre-entered-delta-jackpot-17-princess (http://www.drf.com/news/13-pre-entered-delta-jackpot-17-princess)
Wake Up Nick
Conquest Tsunami
Mr. Z
Golden Actor
Saratoga Heater
Ocho Ocho Ocho
Red Button
Dekabrist
Far Right
Big Big Easy
Prime Engine
Unblunted
Two Six Wins
Thanks...I don't know about wheeling some of these horses back in three weeks time from the Breeders Cup...but I guess if they're training sharply and eating up...
I like Ocho Ocho Ocho and Conquest Tsunami...guess I'll be picking the chalk...
I hope he's not a gelding...then his son could be Ocho Uno Uno after the 811 (excavators hotline) folks that Victor Espinosa was promoting riding California Chrome in the Derby forward...
Although it seems Mr. Z may be cross entered in the Kentucky Jockey Club on November 29th...
DELTA DOWNS RACETRACK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014, RACE 7
1 1/16m
Dirt
$1,000,000
2 yo
4:15 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Weight Trainer
1 Prime Engine (KY) Russell A. Baze 119 Jerry Hollendorfer
2 Dekabrist (KY) Jesus M. Rios 119 Gennadi Dorochenko
3 Mr. Z (KY) Paco Lopez 117 D. Wayne Lukas
4 Conquest Tsunami (ON) Shaun Bridgmohan 119 Mark E. Casse
5 Saratoga Heater (NY) Joel Rosario 119 Albert M. Stall, Jr.
6 Golden Actor (KY) Jose Antonio Gallego 119 Ignacio Roncancio
7 Red Button (KY) Tyler Baze 117 Mark Glatt
8 Wake Up Nick (CA) Mario Gutierrez 119 Leandro Mora
9 Far Right (KY) Corey J. Lanerie 117 Ron Moquett
10 Ocho Ocho Ocho (KY) Mike E. Smith 119 James M. Cassidy
11 Unblunted (KY) Joseph Talamo 117 Michael W. McCarthy
12 Two Six Wins (KY) Martin A. Pedroza 117 Michael Pender
I liked Ocho Ocho Ocho in the BC Turf Sprint - I'll keep liking him here. Hopefully this son of Street Sense is mature enough to stretch out anoth 1/4 mile against this field on dirt.
Mr. Z's the favorite...so I am going to go against him.
I'll also be watching Wake Up Nick, Conquest Tsunami and Saratoga Heater which is a really interesting name...do they mean heater literally or figuratively as in a gun...or something else...
Ocho Ocho Ocho has impressed the Hell out of me from the start.
I see him winning this.
I think he's a special racehorse.
Cross our fingers.
888!
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/88867/ocho-ocho-ocho-cashes-jackpot-now-3-for-3