He has won six of 22 races and is coming off a third at a minor stakes at Lone Star Park. Texas Wedge, for trainer Peter Miller and jockey Umberto Rispoli, is the 2-1 favorite in this 6½-furlong turf race. Six of the races (the odd-numbered ones) are on the turf. There are four stakes, four maiden specials and three allowance/optional claimers. It’s an incredible card with no claiming races (other than the allowance/optional claimers). It’s the second of three straight 11-race cards to finish the meeting. There will be a time to stretch him out, but if we can take a shot at a Grade 1 at the end of August for 3-year-olds, that’s gonna be right up his alley.” Santa Anita preview That kinda keeps us from stretching him out. There are a couple races for 3-year-olds at Saratoga in August and we’ve been planning on getting him back there. We’ve actually been hoping he’d come back and run a race like this in his comeback race. “A lot of horses at that point might have said ‘Hey, uncle for today,’ but he just pinned his ears and came after that horse and got him. “Those other horses pretty much had him down in a spot there where he was in a lot of trouble, but the most impressive thing was, when Flavien did get him off the inside, and in a place where he could let him run, he said ‘You’re not beating me.’ He came and got that horse. “He broke sharp and then a couple steps outta there, he kinda stutter-stepped a little and I think he lost a little bit of early position,” winning trainer Mark Glatt said.
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