TOBOGGAN HANDICAP
Aqueduct, 8th race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. Six furlongs, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 3:49 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Eternal Star has improved by leaps and bounds since he ran second for a $60,000 claiming tag over the inner dirt track in December 2007. A multiple stakes winner since then, he ran fourth last time out behind some powerhouse sprinters in the Grade 2 General George at Laurel, and cuts back from seven furlongs to his preferred distance of six furlongs.
TV: HRTV, TVG, OTB Ch. 71
GOTHAM
Aqueduct, 9th race. Grade 3. Purse: $250,000. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, 3-year-olds. Post: 4:18 p.m.
LOWDOWN: In his last two starts on the West Coast, both graded stakes, I Want Revenge finished right there behind Pioneerof the Nile, the nation’s second-ranked contender for the Kentucky Derby. After racing on synthetic surfaces in California. His trainer, Jeff Mullins, and jockey, Joe Talamo, said they think I Want Revenge will improve on dirt.
TV: HRTV, TVG, OTB Ch. 71
LACOMBE MEMORIAL
Fair Grounds, 9th race. Purse: $60,000. Mile, turf, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 5:25 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Recaptureglory romped in last year’s Illinois Derby, then was one of the few horses to make a run at Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby. He tries turf again making his second start back off a six-month layoff. In his only other grass race, he set the pace to finish a close third over this course, and should sit a garden trip from his inside post.
TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71
LAST WEEK: In the Stymie at Aqueduct, Brilliant Son ran last at 3-1. In the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream, Taqarub was next-to-last at 6-1. The Pamplemousse won the Sham at Santa Anita paying $3.