The Meadowlands' Saturday night card offers a dozen pari-mutuel
puzzlers for those horseplayers questing for value. The fields are solid in
size and quality with the better classes for pacers and trotters alike being
concentrated on the Saturday card.
Jody Reidel's Can Do is
a contender in the fifth race $13,000 conditioned trot. Can Do has been in
Jody's barn for some time now and the 8-year-old shows up pretty much every
week to do his work. In 39 starts this season Can Do has won 7 and been on the
board in 21 of them for earnings of $83,325 and only recently crept past the
half million dollar mark in career earnings. He'll begin from post four on
Friday with Anthony Napolitano in the sulky.
Always At My Place (PP #4) will look to repeat in the pacing
feature for the top trainer/driver team of Ron Burke and Yannick Gingras in the
$17,500 third race. Gingras floated Always At My Place from the gate, ground to
the front past a 26.4 opening quarter then set an honest pace using a 27.3
close to hold Art History at bay in 1:50.4. Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi,
Larry Karr and Phil Collura share ownership of the career winner of more than
$750,000.
Pink
offers a delightful buffet and a grand view of the racing action for the hungry
handicapper.
Post time is 7:15 p.m. on both nights.
