Champagne Analysis

By Dick Jerardi / 8:00 pm, 10.10.09

Champagne Stakes (G1) / Belmont Park, 10.10.09 / Download Chart (PDF)

PROS

  • Rick Dutrow did it again. Homeboykris, another new acquisition after two summer races at Calder, came running in the stretch to win his stakes debut.

CONS

  • Odds-on favorite Dublin, the Hopeful Stakes winner, never ran a step and finished fifth. Trainer Wayne Lukas seemed perplexed. The final time was not great which makes Dublin’s performance seem even worse.

BOTTOM LINE

  • Dutrow said he would like to run Homeboykris in the November 28 Remsen Stakes, not the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Stanley Hough, trainer of runner-up Discreetly Mine, said his colt is done for 2009. And Lukas was not sure what he was going to do.
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About Dick Jerardi

Author PhotoDick Jerardi is an award-winning turf writer, winner of multiple Eclipse Awards, and one of the leading basketball reporters in the country, serving as a past president of the United States Basketball Writers Association. But the Philadelphia Daily News columnist is a handicapper at heart, and a member of the Beyer Associates, producers of the well-known speed figures seen in Daily Racing Form, where Jerardi contributes a regular column.

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