{"id":99003,"date":"2019-02-22T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=99003"},"modified":"2019-10-18T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T05:30:17","slug":"santa-anita-and-gulfstream-graded-stakes-for-older-horses-highlight-weekend-racing-card-vasilika-and-breaking-lucky-are-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/santa-anita-and-gulfstream-graded-stakes-for-older-horses-highlight-weekend-racing-card-vasilika-and-breaking-lucky-are-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Anita and Gulfstream: Graded Stakes for Older Horses Highlight Weekend Racing Card, Vasilika and Breaking Lucky Are Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are no Kentucky Derby prep races<\/a> this weekend, giving a chance for some older horses to grab the spotlight at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and Gulfstream Park outside of Miami.<\/p>\n

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Vasilika — seen here with jockey Flavien Prat aboard — seeks to win her seventh straight race at Santa Anita this weekend. She is the morning-line favorite in Saturday’s Grade II Buena Vista Stakes at the California track. (Image: Benoit\/paulickreport.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two graded stakes races will take place on Saturday, including the Grade II Buena Vista Stakes at Santa Anita. The $200,000 turf mile is for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up. It features a rematch of last month\u2019s Megahertz Stakes, also held at Santa Anita.<\/p>\n

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Vasilika won that race by a length-and-a-half over Ms Bad Behavior. Vasilika, a 5-year-old who has won 14 times in 29 career starts, is the morning-line favorite at 8-5. Ms Bad Behavior is currently third at 5-1 behind Elysea\u2019s World. The Irish 6-year-old, whose odds are currently 4-1, is making her 2019 debut Saturday after winning three of her six races last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Zaffinah Seeks First Stakes Win<\/h2>\n

Another horse to keep an eye on is Zaffinah, also an Irish mare. She finished third in the Megahertz, edged by Ms Bad Behavior. Zaffinah\u2019s odds are currently 12-1. She’s won three times in 15 starts, but she’s yet to win a stakes race.<\/p>\n

Her trainer, Jack Carava, told Santa Anita\u2019s Ed Golden that the mile seems to be the right distance for her.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s pretty consistent going a mile on turf,\u201d <\/span><\/strong>Cavara said.<\/span> \u201cShe\u2019s doing all right even though we were a little sidetracked training because of the weather. I haven\u2019t been able to do as much with her as I\u2019d been hoping, although she doesn\u2019t require a whole lot.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Post time for the Buena Vista is scheduled for 7:20 pm ET.<\/p>\n

Nine Scheduled to Race in Hal’s Hope<\/h2>\n

Also on Saturday is the Hal\u2019s Hope Stakes, a $100,000 Grade III race at Gulfstream Park in Miami for 4-year-olds and up.<\/p>\n

Breaking Lucky is the current morning-line favorite at 2-1. The 7-year-old — who finished second in last month\u2019s Grade III Fred W. Hooper Stakes at Gulfstream — has won four times, placed in the money 16 times in 26 career starts, and earned nearly $1.2 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second choice is a colt who has not run since May. Quip won last year\u2019s Tampa Bay Derby and finished second in the Arkansas Derby, but in the Preakness<\/a> got off to a terrible start and finished last in the eight-horse race.<\/p>\n

Quip, whose morning-line odds are 4-1, was supposed to make his 2019 debut in last week\u2019s Mineshaft Handicap at Fair Grounds, but trainer Rodolphe Brisset scratched the horse after a \u201cbad draw\u201d in landing the No. 13 gate. Quip will face eight others on Saturday and start from the fifth gate.<\/p>\n

“I think he gave so much to us in those two races, maybe he wasn’t ready for what we were trying with him,\u201d Brisset told BloodHorse.<\/em> \u201cI think right now, we have a horse that has matured well … it’s time to start again and see where he’s taking us.”<\/p>\n

Tale of Silence, a 5-year-old, is the current third selection at 5-1, and is also coming off of a long layoff. He last raced in the Grade III Westchester Stakes in May, winning the Belmont Park race by a nose with a hard-charging finish.<\/p>\n

Post time for the Hal\u2019s Hope is set for 4:58 pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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