Remington Park’s Springboard Mile has done exactly that for the likes of: 2020 champ Senor Buscador, winner of the 2024 Saudi Cup, the world’s richest race; Grade 3 winner and stakes-record holder Greyvitos, who won the Kentucky Derby prep race in 1:37.14 in 2017; and Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, who has three 2-year-olds entered in this year’s race as he seeks his eighth win. The $300,000 Springboard Mile this Friday caps an all-stakes Late Pick 4 that shapes up this way:
RP 9th race (9:52 p.m. EST) -- GLEE will carry the hopes of many Pick 4 players as the likely odds-on choice in the $75,000 Toby Keith Stakes. The Asmussen-trained 2-year-old filly was pestered on the lead in the $50,000 E.L. Gaylord Memorial until she quickly separated from the field in the stretch to win by 15-1/2 lengths in her first start at Remington Park. She flattened out in a follow-up try in the $200,000 Myrtlewood at Keeneland that featured five prior-race winners who averaged a 72 Beyer speed figure in those wins. Locally-based ELEGANT ECHO rallied past four next-out winners in the $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie and ‘powered to the front’ to beat the troubled favorite two starts back. She broke poorly as the 4-to-5 favorite in the $50,000 Slide Show at this distance and was unhurried until she drew abreast of the leaders with a 5-wide sweep on the turn before stalling on a very sloppy track. TAPITURES ACTOR was pinched at the start, losing several lengths, ranged up 3-wide into the stretch and finished a clear second in the 6-1/2F race against Glee. She bounced back to beat a weak stakes field in the $100,000 My Trusty Cat at Delta Downs to improve to 2-for-3 with Lasix and blinkers.
RP 10th race (10:23 p.m. EST) -- CORNINGSTONE, multiple graded stakes-placed at 1-1/16 miles, starts at her 11th different venue with a gaudy 18/6-6-3 record on dirt and a $583k bankroll. Her class and consistency should prevail in the $75,000 She’s All In Stakes at 1 mile and 70 yards. BRU NA BOINNE won her last three routes on the main track with ascending speed figures and should offer good enough value to use as a backup selection.
RP 11th race (10:54 p.m. EST) -- SILVER PROSPECTOR backed off a duel, made a ‘strong’ re-bid on the final turn and hung in late stretch as his three-peat bid came up a length short. But the multiple Grade 3-winning millionaire should sit an ideal trip from just off the pace in the $75,000 Jeffrey A. Hawk Memorial in lieu of his first stakes win in 2-1/2 years. U.S. ARMY should be the target, stretching out off a troubled sprint try as the overwhelming favorite at a track where he’s 5-for-10.
RP 12th race (11:25 p.m. EST) -- Hitting the ‘ALL’ button in the featured Springboard Mile. Morning-line favorite SPEED KING was bumped at the start and didn’t change leads in the stretch, but held off the favorite, nonetheless, in a debut Maiden Special Weight upset at Churchill Downs with an 82 Beyer speed figure. JOLLY SAMURAI and MISTER OMAHA boast three-race winning streaks and two stakes victories apiece at Remington Park. DR. RUBEN M held on to defeat a solid MSW field at Santa Anita at this distance despite getting ‘weary late.’ COMPLEX MUSIC looks best of the uncoupled Asmussen trio off an allowance romp sprinting at Horseshoe Indianapolis.
Suggested 50-Cent Ticket
RP 9th Race: 3, 6
RP 10th Race: 2, 7
RP 11th Race: 7, 8
RP 12th Race: ALL
Cost: $48
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