The $ 5 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf regularly attracts the best in the US established spacer couples, together with a formidable international contingent that makes the race of 1 ½ mil a discouraging assignment. It requires a consistent Elite American runner to have a realistic chance of success.
Ole Crazy Bone On Saturday his ticket hit the Breeders’ Cup Turf with a dominant victory of 3 ¾ length in the 1 ½-MIJL KTDF Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational Stakes in Kentucky Dows. How does he get up as a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Turf November 1 in Del Mar? Let’s look at it closer.
Performance: Consistency has been a strength of Ole Crazy Bone with 14 top three finishes in 19 Starts and more recently he has only been placed twice in 13 races since the beginning of 2024 with six wins. His track record in grass races is also solid with five wins, four seconds and two -thirds in 13 races on grass.
However, he had not been tested for elite competence until Kentucky’s Turf Cup. Ole Crazy Bone had never won a race of commitment for the Kentucky Turf Cup, with seconds in non-grade bets in Ellis Park and Lone Star Park and a third in a race in a strikes in Sam Houston Race Park his best impressions. In fact, he made his assessed debut in Kentucky Downs and was claimed For $ 100.00 only two starts in advance by trainer Mike Maker on behalf of Flying P Racing from a second place on June 6 in Churchill Downs in a race of 1 1/8-mile on a sloppy track.
In two starts for his new connections, Ole Crazy Bone finished second by a head in the $ 300,000 KY Downs Preview Turf Cup Stakes 3 September in Ellis Park and won the $ 2.5 million Kentucky Turf Cup 6 September at 3 ¾ wider lengths. He has been a great claim for his new connections.
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Claim races His races where each can be seen in the horse, for sale at a predetermined price, in the Ole Crazy Bone $ 100,000 case. Owners interested in buying a horse in a claim race that informs the racing secretary on the track before the race is performed, and if two more owners bet their claim on a certain horse, their names are placed on pills that are then placed in a cup for the “shak” and one is pulled out. All sales are final, regardless of how the horse runs in the race, but the original owner is entitled to the profit of the horse and the proceeds of the sale.
Speed figures: The average winning Equibase -speed rating for the last 20 editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf is 123.75 with a median of 124, ranging from the 116 that was earned for winning the 2015 edition earned the 133 enable for winning in 2018. Seventeen of the last 20 winners outsched.
Ole Crazy Bone has his work cut out for him. His career-best Equibase speed figure is a 110 and he received a 102 for the victory of the Kentucky Turf Cup. He has an average of 101.7 for his seven starts this year, so Ole Crazy Bone should probably improve his career-best and 15 to 18 points of his seasonal average with six to 10 points to be a viable win-candidate.
Looking ahead: Ole Crazy Bone is a sympathetic 5-year-old gelding who has shown a significant improvement for maker. Ole Crazy Bone ended his last three-eight of a mile in a sizzling: 34.09 in the Ky Downs Preview Turf Cup Stakes, so he has an explosive bend of foot, and his Graded Stakes debut was an eye-opener. He looked like he enjoyed the 1 ½ miles.
I carrot for his constant success, but at the moment he would have to take an important step forward to be a serious threat to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf at a different level of quality in terms of opposition. I usually fade anything but the very best of the best American horses in these Breeders’ cup race, so I will have to sell on Ole Crazy Bone, although I love his name and see a claimant successful in races in the effort.
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