The Alabama

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm not sure what the price will be, but from a pedigree standpoint Nite Light is interesting. Thunder Gulch won the Belmont at 12 furlongs and his mother the recently deceased Lite Light was a beast. Multiple grade 1 winner who won the Coaching Club Oaks.

Isn't he also entered on Friday's card? That spot looks better than this one.

[boswd]

OCTAVE - Mother Goose and CCAO winner
Panty Raid - Black Eye Susan and American Oaks winner
Lear's Princess - 2nd in the CCAO
Folk - UAE Oaks winner
Lady Jo Ann - 2nd in Mother Goose
Tough Tiz's sis - Hollywood Oaks winner
Moon Catcher - Deleware Oaks winner


This is what a major Grade I is supposed to look like. Not one Auto toss in the field IMHO. This is one fantastic field.
That's why I torn when Rags opted out. On one hand you want the best filly to run in arguable the biggest race of the year for the 3 yr old filly's but we probably would have been looking at 4 horse field.
Now we have the best of the best well excluding Rags that is.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Yeah, entered going 7 today. I actually think the 2 mile would be better off for him. Especially with that pedigree.

Oops, I just unknowingly duplicated what you said here on another thread. I agree 100%. His sire and broodmare sire were both G1 winners at 12f (although Majestic Light's was on the turf) and his dam was a G1 winner at 10f. Not bad for this distance. It will be interesting to see what the odds do for this race. I like him, but if everybody falls in love with his pedigree and the odds get crazy on him (like 8/5 crazy) there could be some value elsewhere, especially since I believe this is only his third lifetime start.
Oh right, this thread was supposed to be about the Alabama, but the 3yo filly division without Rags can't really hold my attention this year.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I agree. I actually thought the Levine and Gorham were interesting in there as well.

In the Alabama I think Lady Joanne is going to be real tough. I might use Folk and Panty Raid as well.

After a quick look at the PP (http://www.drf.com/row/pps/07alabama.pdf) I really like Panty Raid here. She seems to be able to run anywhere on anything, and that 5f in :59.3 on Aug 12th makes it seem that she will like running at Saratoga.