November 22, 2024

Cigar Mile, Derby and Oaks preps highlight Thanksgiving Saturday

Last updated: 11/27/15 3:49 PM


Cigar Mile, Derby and Oaks preps highlight Thanksgiving
Saturday



Recent Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) runner-up Private Zone (Macho Uno) will seek to
join Congaree as the only two-time winners of the $750,000 Cigar Mile H. (G1) at
Aqueduct on Saturday
.

The Cigar Mile highlights a card that includes three other graded stakes,
among which is the $300,000 Remsen (G2), an important Kentucky Derby (G1) prep.

Churchill Downs will host the “Stars of Tomorrow II” program on Saturday and
the

Kentucky Jockey Club (G2), which is co-featured along with the Golden Rod (G2)
for fillies, will provide a line on five horses entered
in the Kentucky
Derby Future Wager Pool 1.

For previews of all these races, visit the TwinSpires blog via the above
links.

Also at the blog on Wednesday:

Odds-on favorites were upset Wednesday in the

Zia Park Derby and Zia Park Oaks
.

Dick Powell explains in Handicapping Insights how

Bernardini is thriving at stud and 2016 looks extremely promising
.

John Mucciolo recaps the past week at the Big A in his

Aqueduct Notebook
.



Foreign invitees for next month’s Hong Kong International Races have been
announced
, and include European star Flintshire (Dansili) and Breeders’ Cup
Turf Sprint (G1) winner Mongolian Saturday (Any Given Saturday).