🏇Happy Saturday & National Scotch Day 🥃
Let's kick our weekend off by playing the ponies from Sunny San Diego and Del Mar Race Track! We love scotch so we thought celebrating with Bing Crosby would be a nice way to celebrate both the man and the drink. A few notes about today's featured race:
After the opening of the Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California, on Christmas Day 1934, William A. Quigley, a resident of La Jolla, formed the idea of starting a racetrack on the Del Mar Fairgrounds. He pitched this to Bing Crosby, and they founded the Del Mar Turf Club on May 6, 1936. Quigley was General Manager of the racetrack until his death at the age of 49 in 1942.[4][5][6] When Del Mar opened in 1937, Bing Crosby was at the gate to personally greet the fans. On August 12, 1938, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club hosted a $25,000 winner-take-all match race between Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and the Binglin Stable's colt, Ligaroti. In an era when horse racing ranked second in popularity with Americans to Major League Baseball, the match race was the first nationwide broadcast of a Thoroughbred race by NBC radio. In the race, Seabiscuit was ridden by jockey George Woolf and Ligaroti by Noel Richardson. In front of a record crowd that helped make Del Mar Race Track a success, Seabiscuit won by a nose. The first Bing Crosby Stakes was held at Del Mar in 1946
Today's card has 11 races, three stakes races, two of which are graded stakes, and as noted the featured race comes in the 10th. The $400K Bing Crosby Stakes is a G1, 6-furlong sprint on the dirt track. We will see seven runners as two have scratched. It will be quick in the 10th but the card will go all day so it's a good thing the weather is always so nice in San Diego. We will see highs in the mid to lower 70s with no rain in the forecast. This has lead them to declare a fast track and firm turf for today's card.
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🏇🏻Del Mar // Sat., July 27, 2024 🏇🏾
1st Post @ 2:00 PDT (11:00 PDT)
R1: 4-7-3-5
R2: 4⭑-2-6-5
R3: 7-2-6-1
R4: 6-1-7-8
R5: 5-7-4-13
R6: 1-2-6-7
R7Ⓢ: 5-2-3-9
R8Ⓢ: 4-3-2-1
R9Ⓢ: 9-3-4-11
R10: 8-7-6-9
R11: 7-9-12-4
⭑ Best Bet(s)
R2: Heart Headed (#4)
Stakes Races
R7: 100K Daisycutter H.
R8: 300K San Diego H. (G2)
R9: 400K Bing Crosby S. (G1)/BC
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-TSL
/ As always, please forgive any typos and grammatical errors
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