5/23 & 25 (GG): Alcatraz S. (L); Berkeley S. (G3)
 

8th (4:45) Alcatraz S.

1 1/16 Miles (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $75,000

1 Winning Vow Springer J 122 L
2 Miguel's Mascot Garcia J A 122 L
3 Robs Hero Baze R A 122 L
4 Run It Schvaneveldt C P 122 L
5 Feisty Suances Kaenel K 122 L
6 Arden Park Antongrgi III W 122 L
7 Lesson in Deceit Figueroa O 122 L
8 Massone Alvarado F T 122 L

Wow, Massone, who almost nailed Derby 5th Chocolate Candy in the El Camino Real Derby earlier this year before being a decent 3rd in the Blue Grass shows up here. Thought he'd try to get an allowance race in before trying the Belmont or Swaps.

If Fiesty Suances runs anything like his sire (who brow beat a 4-horse field over this course which included Grade 1 horses The Tin Man, Sarafan, and Decarchy a few years back) on turf, he could be long gone.

MONDAY 8th (4:15) Berkeley S. (G3)

1 1/16 Miles (All Weather Track) | Open | 4 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $150,000

1 Medzendeekron Garcia J A 123 L
2 Sierra Sunset Baze R A 123 L
3 Our Partner Antongrgi III W 123 L
4 Unusual Suspect Bisono A 123 L
5 Captain Roy Figueroa O 123 L
6 Unusual Smoke Garcia M 123 L
7 Silent Soul Puglisi I 123 L
8 Awesome Gem Solis A 123 L
9 Bold Chieftain Alvarado F T 123 L
10 Autism Awareness Lopez D G 123 L

I'll take Unusual Smoke in the Berkeley

A wonderful win in the Berkeley for Johnny Taboada's Autism Awareness... Was relentless getting to the wire and finally gets back to where he was when injured approaching Derby. Along with Bribon for Bobby Ribaudo, the day's feel good performance. Listen for both on ATR Tuesday.

Autism Awareness yesterday at GG
 

Personal de ja vu situation for me yesterday with this horse, as we all may remember last years lead up to the triple crown, AA won the El Camino Real @ 65-1 and was a sentimental story nationally. I did not have an ADW account at the time and worked all day, and watched in horror as he swooped outside of the field and scored. He was subsequently put on the shelf injured. I had placed AA on my watchmail after hearing of his comeback and watched him sputter a little in a few of his early races this year. But his last race he did win at a decent 10-1 or so mutuel and I cashed on that win. Fast-forward to yesterday....I received the notification that AA was running in the feature @ GG but somehow got sidetracked with LS and HOL. This morning my inbox had the result notification from GG and I opened the email with trepid fear, knowing AA went at decent odds. When I scrolled down, I seriously almost vomited......Autism Awareness won @ 30-1 and keyed a 40K pk4. After beating my brains in to be up about 50 bucks on the day, a situation like this will leave me depressed for a long time. Or at least till tomorrow.

Know how you feel. Was gung ho about Real Estate, a half to the Escapade sisters, in his first out, but then he scratched. Comes back a week later and wins for fun and I missed him because I forgot to check Stable Mail that day. Not the first time I read my Stable Mail too late.

Glad to know I am not the only one as I tuned into the tail end of the show and heard, amazingly, some other gentlemen did the EXACT same thing I did concerning AA. Thanks for referring to me on the show, Steve, I tried to call in at the end but the call dropped.:mad: