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BetPTC.com has
all the action of a huge Labor Day Weekend
Labor
Day weekend unofficially marks the end of summer, and what better way to enjoy
the final days of the heat than by playing the ponies at the top tracks around
the nation. BetPTC.com will have you
covered as we offer the top action from the top tracks, including great stakes
racing from Monmouth Park, Arlington Park, Del Mar, Parx Racing (formerly
Philadelphia Park), Calder Race Course, Thistledown, River Downs, the list goes
on and on.
Monmouth Park
features final weekend of the Summer meet portion of their season
Monmouth
Park will continue racing for another couple of months, but the “Elite Summer
Meet” portion will come to an end this weekend. The massive purses, large fields, and big payouts have been a joy for
players all summer long and they will be closing out this portion of their
season in style, with great cards on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and a Monday
Labory Day card which will feature the Gilded Time Stakes and the Sorority
Stakes. On Saturday Monmouth will offer
up a pair of stakes races on a spectacular 13 race program that gets underway
at 12:50pm EST. The 10th race
will be run on the grass at one mile and one eighth and it’s the $100,000 Twin
Lights Stakes for 3 year old fillies. With Hurricane Earl expected to hit the East Coast on Friday, players
will definitely want to keep an eye on the forecast all weekend long for the
Jersey Shore.
Also on Saturday is the Grade 3
Sapling Stakes for the two year olds, and a nice field of 9 has been
entered. The Sapling has often been the showcase
for the who’s who of juveniles at the Monmouth Park meeting. Vengeful Wildcat could definitely garner much
of the attention coming off an impressive score in the Tyro Stakes earlier this
season at Monmouth Park. Carlos Marquez
Jr. will be on board of Vengeful Wildcat who has drawn post 4. His main competition could be from Sanford
Stakes winner Maybesomaybenot. Maybesomaybenot posted a 9/1 upset win in that race at Saratoga and has
chosen this spot for his return. Maybesomaybenot has drawn the extreme outside post in the field of nine,
and jockey Elvis Trujillo will be able to see what the riders inside of him do
before making his tactical decisions. Garrett
Gomez will be aboard Nacho Saint, who although still a maiden after a handful
of starts, has run second in each career effort and could be a contender in
here.
The Sapling Stakes goes off as the
11th race on an action packed 13 race card at Monmouth park on
Saturday September 4th and first post is at 12:50pm EST. Here is the field for the Sapling Stakes:
1. Madman Diaries, Jeffrey Sanchez
2. Nacho
Saint, Garrett Gomez
3. Another
Silver Oak, Fernando Jara
4. Vengeful
Wildcat, Carlos Marquez Jr.
5. Printing
Press, CC Lopez
6. Js
Lucky Train, Jeremy Rose
7. Brother
in Arms, Joe Bravo
8. Chipshot,
Shawn Bridgmohan
9. Maybesomaybenot,
Elvis Trujillo
Arlington Park
entering the home stretch of their season
Arlington
Park in Chicago enters the final couple of weeks on their summer season, but
they will still be offering some great action including the Grade 3 $150,000 Washington
Park Handicap on Saturday September 4th. Gran Estreno is back looking to repeat in
this race after winning the Grade 3 event last year. Gran Estreno will carry 118 pounds as the co
high weight for the race under jockey Michael Baze. Gran Estreno certainly has shown an affinity
for Arlington Park over the past few years, as he’s racked up five wins from
seven career starts at the suburban Chicago oval. Gran Estreno has drawn post two for the
Washington Park Handicap.
Giant Oak is also back looking to
regain his form from last season when he was one of the top turfers at
Arlington Park. He is yet to taste
victory as a four year old, but he has been knocking on the door of some tough
customers. Giant Oak comes off a fifth
place finish in the Arlington Handicap, but was beaten just a length and a
quarter that day. Junior Alvarado will
be on board of Giant Oak who will also carry 118 pounds and will break from
post six.
The Washington Park Handicap goes
off as Race 8 on the Saturday September 4th program at Arlington
Park and post time is 5:37 for the Grade 3 event.
River Downs
closes the meet down with the Bassinet and Cradle Stakes
River
Downs builds up all season for their huge closing weekend, which always takes
place over the Labor Day weekend holiday. On Saturday September 4th they will feature the $50,000 Coca
Cola Bassinet Stakes for two year old fillies at six furlongs. Trainer John Hancock will send in a pair for
the Bassinet including 5/2 morning line favorite Internet Café. Internet Café broke the maiden at Churchill
Downs in May and followed that win up ten days later with a nose victory in a
non winners of two allowance. Kristina
Kenney will be aboard the two year old filly for the first time in her career
as Internet Café has drawn post 4 in the field of eight. Hancocks other runner was the winner of the
Bassinet prep at River Downs last month Bach Hamilton. Bach Hamilton has been training at Ellis Park
and firing bullets in the morning prepping for the Bassinet Stakes. The Bassinet will be the 11th race
on the Saturday September 4th Ohio program.
The $100,000 Cradle Stakes is always
the season feature at River Downs and Ruslter Hustler looks to be the clear
standout of those nominated for the event. Entries will be drawn on Friday, but Rustler Hustler is the only stakes
winner nominated, coming off a spectactular win in the $100,000 Continental
Mile at Monmouth Park. Rustler Hustler
is trained by Tim Hamm, who for years has been coming down from his Thistledown
base to win stakes events at River Downs.
Saturday Stakes
Action at BetPTC.com
Arlington
Park
Race 8 Washington Park Handicap 5:37pm
EST
Calder
Race Course
Race 9 Ms. Brooski Stakes 4:48pm
EST
Del
Mar
Race 8 Darley Debutante 8:30pm
EST
Delaware
Park
Race 10 Dr. Sam Harrison Juvenile Arabian Filly 5:18pm EST
Monmouth
Park
Race 10 Twin Lights Stakes 5:01pm
EST
Race 11 Sapling Stakes 5:30pm
EST
River
Downs
Race 11 Coca Cola Bassinet 4:25pm
EST
Suffolk
Downs
Race 3 African Prince Stakes 1:39pm
EST
Thistledown
Race 10 Governors Buckeye Cup 4:04pm
EST
Yavapai
Race 7 First
Snowbound Stakes 6:40pm
EST