Yesterday's Recap: Well. I guess I have some explaining to do. SPEIGHTFUL LILY was my top pick yesterday. She went off as a pretty solid favorite at that. She WAS probably eight paths wide coming into the stretch. I wouldn't toss her out of your virtual stables after that bad race.
The elephant in the room is the Schuylerville. Where do I even begin? Stephen Whyno and I stood at the rail in the Winner's Circle for the entirety of the race. It didn't start well. COMPLEXION threw jockey John Velazquez twice while in the gate. They backed out the COMPLEXITY filly but they put her back into the gate about 40 seconds later. I do not reckon conditioner, Danny Gargan was happy and rightfully so because most horses in that scenario get scratched. Two horses threw their riders during the race. In the end, THE QUEENS M G upset the field at odds of 44-1. Yes, the horse I said had no shot.
MOVING ON! Today is another day.
Stakes action today includes The Wilton for three-year-old fillies going a mile on the dirt.
Next we have the 150k Coronation Cup for three-year-old fillies on the turf. With the scratch of Appleby's STAR OF MYSTERY (GB), the field opens up a tad. EVER SO SWEET (IRE) is the second choice on the morning line and will take a good deal of money with Irad in the irons. However, this seems like a filly that needs to dictate the pace on the front end and I don't know if she will get that opportunity. She very well could but at a likely short price, I want to look elsewhere. That brought me to TOUPIE and KAIRYU (IRE). Graham Motion and Cherie DeVaux train some of the top turf horses in the country at this time so I'd pay attention to these fillies. TOUPIE continues this pretty consistent improvement trajectory. She's finished in the trifecta in every start aside from her graded stakes debut. And in that race, she was being stretched out to a mile and sixteenth which is clearly not her preferred distance. Now KAIRYU (IRE) has not put it together on American soil yet. But we know based on her Euro races that she likes that 5F or 6F distance. She only lost to PIPSY (IRE) by half a length in her American graded stakes debut, a filly trained by William Walden that was scratched from this field.