Casino Drive wins his allowance prep

Casino Drive won today in a 1-1/16 mile allowance at Santa Anita in 1:42 with Victor Espinoza aboard. With only 3 wins, and only one Grade II win, this horse certainly has his fans and grabs alot of newspaper ink and Internet chatter. Today he was never really asked and had a huge class advantage but he did show he had no problems with the same synthetic track surface he will be running over in the BC Classic. He seems to be one of these horses that despite being so lightly raced people take an interest in and keep in their memory bank, probably due to his very good pedigree, a easy name to remember and the Japanese connections.

Thanks to Partymanners for the race clip

This Just in-Casino Drive misses training run

According to Bill Finley of the NY Times, Casino Drive missed a training run and he is being evaluated by his management team-no decision has been made for tomorrow. At this point, might want to throw him out of your exotics even if he does run. Lets hope he is okay.

Edgar Prado to ride Casino Drive

The Japanese management team for Casino Drive announced today that Jockey Edgar Prado will ride Casino Drive.
As detailed in my prior posts, this was the Jockey I was looking for to ride Prado. Big Brown is a beast but if any Jockey knows how to ride over the Belmont track it is Prado. So with 11 days to go the table appears to be set.