Looking for a specific race from Sat Mar 15

[Simkie]

I’m on stall rest and have been entertaining myself by keeping Fan Duel racing on TV. Makes good background noise.

There was an undercard race this Saturday where a horse came from behind, was very carefully threaded through quite a lot of traffic, to either win or hit the board. I’ve been trying to find a replay and just cannot and it’s driving me bonkers.

What I remember:

It was a named race
On the dirt (or synthetic, not on the turf)
I think it was colts/geldings
I thought it was Santa Anita but have watched the card (a few times omg) and nope
It went off sometime after 12 pm eastern and I’m pretty sure it was before the fifth at Oaklawn (so before 330 ish eastern)
A solid field of horses–there was traffic, it wasn’t just 3-4 runners, maybe 6-8 or more

It was really impressive riding. I’m kicking myself for not making a note of where it was. I didn’t think it would be so hard to find since the race had a name and was early in the day.

Anyone have any ideas?

[mommy_peanut]

Possibly the Jimmy Winkfield?

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/race/usa/aqu/2025/3/15/4/jimmy-winkfield-s-bt

[Simkie]

Thank you for looking! This feels like a very weird scavenger hunt, right?

I don’t think that’s it. What I remember is a horse hitting the top of the stretch, working through more traffic with a couple different moves. I think it was at a track with a turf course to the inside, and warm looking.

That was a pretty good move for T Kraft!

[Texarkana]

Sometimes races have names that don’t appear on the chart because they aren’t running for a blacktype purse. It might just be regular conditions-- allowance, maiden, or even claiming, but the announcer says something like “the 12th running of the Joe Schmoe Cup.” But it’s not going to say anything special on the chart about the in-house name of the race.

[Simkie]

I figured, and the name of this race certainly didn’t stand out. The first thing I did was pull up the official program on the Santa Anita site, thinking the name would be there even if Equibase didn’t show it. No luck.

It was “official” enough that Fan Duel showed the name on the screen. Usually they just overlay “track name race number” which is easy to remember.

I looked to see if I could replay the entire show from that afternoon but nope, at least not through my cable box.

This is driving me nuts, lol.

[Texarkana]

The fastest way to find this would probably be to pull the overnights from the 15th on Equibase, if you haven’t done that already. They will probably say any race names to narrow down your search. They also should have post times.

I’d do it for you but I’m at work where all things horse racing are blocked on our network.

[Texarkana]

Maybe?

TAM031525USA5.pdf

It has a name in the overnights:

https://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbHorsemenAreaDownloadAction.cfm?sn=ONDC-TAM-20250315D

ETA: my bad, didn’t realize it was on the grass at first.

[Texarkana]

Also this one (fillies and mares, I know):

OP031525USA3.pdf

The race was called the “McGruder Fletcher Extravaganza.”

You might check the rest of the Oaklawn card. Races 1-6 all had “names.”

[Simkie]

I got super hopeful about this Tampa Bay race when that three horse was checked but what I’m remembering is something like that happening, then the jockey getting the horse up and around traffic and to the front. It was really a threading the needle and navigating around foes ride, and there was a moment where the horse really got yanked to the outside to give him room to move up.

I’ll totally watch the Oaklawn card. It’s such a PITA, why do they not do free replays?! Oaklawn is the entire reason I finally downloaded the Fan Duel app. (Which is probably the entire point!!)

Thank you so much for looking!

[mommy_peanut]

@Simkie

I’ll totally watch the Oaklawn card. It’s such a PITA, why do they not do free replays?! Oaklawn is the entire reason I finally downloaded the Fan Duel app. (Which is probably the entire point!!)

Thank you so much for looking!

If you know the track & race # you want to watch, Bloodhorse has replays of most all the races run for free.

[f0rf31t]

@Texarkana

Sometimes races have names that don’t appear on the chart because they aren’t running for a blacktype purse. It might just be regular conditions-- allowance, maiden, or even claiming, but the announcer says something like “the 12th running of the Joe Schmoe Cup.” But

Seconding this - I remember a few of these when I worked as security at a track years ago. Usually they’d do this on a day they were running stakes but I thiiiink sometimes they’d also have some that would be on a regular race day but maybe e.g. in memory/in honor of someone/something-or-other, it wasn’t very often they had them on days when there weren’t stakes. It’d be listed in the program w/the name but also w/the conditions (e.g. allowance, X distance, etc.)

[findeight]

I had the races on Saturday while I was cleaning and there were quite a few tracks…Aqueduct would be hard to confuse with Santa Anita but could it have been Gulfstream? Most of the races from all these tracks I caught glimpses of were blue collar variety, MSWs and claimers mostly full of lesser known names.

But there was that Derby prep from Colonial Downs along with a few other races on that card, maybe that was it?

[Simkie]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Guys!

March 15, 2025 Race 3

I’m pretty sure this is it. That ride on King Ramos is what I was looking for.

I swear fan duel had a name on the screen for this race. Nada on the overnights. Nothing even on the win pic! So weird.

But impressive moves from the jockey to get the horse through traffic and up to the wire, right??

[NaturallyHappy]

Wow! I’m sorry you are on stall rest. I hope you will be hand walking soon!

[Aussie_2020]

@Simkie That was a good race! His first maneuver was slick and the way he shifted into the next gear at the end and easily pulled away was impressive.

Thanks for tracking it down and sharing.