Evening Attire Stakes Betting – Formal Wear January 19th, 2012
Who: Thoroughbreds – I Want Revenge
What: Horse Racing Betting Tips – The $75,000 Evening Attire Stakes
Where: Aqueduct
When: Saturday, January 21st
It will be a black-tie only deal Saturday as the Evening Attire Stakes is renewed and the winner will be trying to etch his name in the record books along sides stars like Kelso, Tom Rolfe and Damascus.
Last season, Heart Butte turned the natural hat trick in this race as he was winning his third in a row and was coming off an inner strip score in a $50,000 optional. He won virtually wire-to-wire after getting away with pedestrian splits to post an 89 Beyer.
Originally named the Aqueduct Handicap, this race was named for the elder statesman and runner that competed till he was 10.
This year, a short and sweet online betting package of 6 will contend for the major portion of the purse and let’s open the bidding with a runner that, like Heart Butte, won an optional claimer last time.
Thunder Ball will be trying to make it rain on his foes today. He is shooting for his 4th in a row but has never run on the inner strip. His streak started in a $25,000 Laurel claimer and he could be a bit overmatched here.
On the sports betting rail comes Eighttofasttocash, a gelding that just wants to beat ya. He’s won 9 of his 30 starts, and will be trying to win off a slight vacation. He cashed off a layoff in April of 2010 with an 83 Beyer.
Four of his 5 wins last year were in stakes and he was coming away last time with a race leading 104 Beyer.
Those that like the revenge motive have a vehicle with I Want Revenge, who failed at 3-5 the last time seen in May in a $58,000 stakes.
He could be a bit fragile with only 13 starts at age of 6, but he has tons of back class after winning the Wood Memorial as a sophomore. Far from disgraced in his best effort last year with a 4th in the Grade 1 Donn, he has trained solidly for this for 33% trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.
You have the sportsbooks Terminator and the Jimanator. This reformed claimer took the Grade 3 Fred Hooper in his best moment of 2011 and he ran into a roadblock last time in a $75,000 Philly stakes.
Day of Destiny will be a price. Claimed for $35,000 from a winning effort two back, he was never in the hunt last time and has never been in a stakes.
Closing out the field will be Redding Colliery, who won his only inner strip effort here back in January of 2010 when he controlled a :48 1/5, 1:13 pace to take a $50K optional.
The runner comes off a dull return at Penn National in his lone start of 2011 and hard to see him clearing here.
So how does it unfold?
They say speed kills but not today.
I Want Revenge has natural velocity but he doesn’t need the lead to win. On his best day he can give you a sub :46 half and a 1:09 and change three quarters and if he does that, it’s going, going, gone on the front end.
Revenge is sweet.