Thanks to winter storm Elliott and countless race card cancellations in the East last weekend, the intense battle between Bolt d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro), good magic (make for curly) and justification (Scat Daddy) for the title of the first brood of 2022 went from seething to chilling over the Christmas weekend. However, with three days left on this year’s calendar, both temperatures and competition heating up again, none of the top three is ready to declare victory or concede defeat.
Bolt d’Oro kicked off the last week of the year with a win in fashion as his son Corona Bolt won Sugar Bowl S. at the Fair Grounds on Monday with 6 3/4 length, receiving the check worth $60,000 in the process. The $220,000 KEENOV weaning increased his progeny’s total income to $2,712,616, which is now $184,443 more than that. good magicthe number in second place is $2,528,173.
Bolt d’Oro has three setups to run in Turfway Park’s fifth race on Thursday night, a race originally scored last Friday before the track was forced to cancel due to sub-zero temperatures C. St. Elmo, Itzos and Fast Forward all returned to try the Msw 6 1/2 furlong test, which brought in a $70,000 purse. On Friday, Bolt d’Oro will have a pair—Mahina and Bolt’s Broad—race a mile across the field in the $67,000 Msw at Santa Anita, billed as the first race of the day. He has four athletes competing on New Year’s Eve at various tracks.
Repole Stables Thoroughbred Rules This is the first time of the day on Thursday for good magic. The foal, trained by Todd Pletcher, came out of Bernardini’s Enthrall mare and sought his first career win in his fifth race at Gulfstream Park, a 7 1 long turf test. /2 Minutes. Up North at the Aqueduct, Moonflyer will wear the $40,000 price tag as he races 6 1/2 feathers in search of a career-first win for trainer Rudy Rodriguez, who also co-owns the foal. in collaboration with Gabrielle Farm, Vincent Scuderi, Michael Imperio, and Theresa Cotrone. good magicThe race’s final runner of the weekend will be Belle Elena in the $6 and a half $34,000 Msw at Delta Downs on Friday.
Not willing to simply settle for the third, justification was represented by two athletes in Japan at Hanshin Racecourse on Wednesday. Dona Sweat, a $425,000 KEESEP graduate, finished fourth in the first six races and earned $6,025. Later in the game, Yuttitham won a $106,284 grant event, earning $55,498 in the process. With the runner’s income increase and current total of $2,477,539, justification trail good magic for just $50,634 and get one on Saturday at Santa Anita.
Note that Japanese earnings are added every Sunday night and there may be delays in reporting from other countries, which could delay the final results in a very close race in early January. .
Current earnings rankings through the December 27 race:
1st place—Bolt d’Oro, $2,712,616
2nd-good magic$2.528173
3rd-justification$2,477,539
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