Six New York-bred fillies and mares have drawn in for
Friday’s seventh running of the $70,000 Saratoga Dew.
Edward Cox, Jr.’s Banker’s Buy has been made the 2-1
morning-line favorite and will leave from post 3 with Jose Lezcano. Trained by
Nick Zito, the 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor has won two of four
starts this year, most recently taking a 1 1/16th-mile allowance
optional claimer at Belmont
on July 8. Second in her only career stakes start – the Real Prize Stakes at Belmont last October –
she will stretch out to 1 1/8th miles for the first time in the
Saratoga Dew.
Second-choice on the morning line is Akindale Farms’ My
Dinah, who was third in last year’s renewal of the race. Winner of the
seven-furlong Fleet Indian Stakes at the Spa on July 30, she finished 11th
on the grass in the Yaddo on August 20.
Completing the field are Don’t Forget Gil, seventh in
the William B. Fasig Stakes; Landlash, sixth in the Lake Luzerne; Wicked
Diva, fifth in an allowance optional claimer on August 23 and Big
Brownie, who was second in that race.
|
PP
|
Horse
|
Jockey
|
Wgt
|
Trainer
|
Odds
|
|
1
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Don't Forget Gil (NY)
|
J Castellano
|
124
|
M A Hennig
|
3-1
|
|
2
|
Landlash (NY)
|
J R Velazquez
|
114
|
L Gyarmati
|
10-1
|
|
3
|
Banker's Buy (NY)
|
J Lezcano
|
118
|
N P Zito
|
2-1
|
|
4
|
My Dinah (NY)
|
J L Espinoza
|
122
|
K M Feron
|
5-2
|
|
5
|
Wicked Diva (NY)
|
R A Dominguez
|
118
|
M E Hushion
|
4-1
|
|
6
|
Big Brownie (NY)
|
C Hill
|
118
|
P D Pugh
|
15-1
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