1. Bailey has made three trips from Florida to ride stakes horses. 2. But Frankel will be highly visible on Saturday as the trainer of Tinners Way, a son of Secretariat and an accomplished stakes horse in France and America. 3. But he became a stakes horse when Clement switched him to the turf and sent him long. 4. Gone are the days when a helicopter would whisk Cordero from Belmont to Atlantic City or Monmouth to ride a stakes horse. 5. His two stake horses -- the guys putting up his money -- quit on him. 6. Jenine Sahadi said she would worry about putting a stakes horse in uncertain hands. 7. One horse with choices is Wallenda, the well-traveled stakes horse owned by Cot Campbell of Dogwood Stables and trained by Frank Alexander. 8. Passero has won with an occasional stakes horse. 9. Stakes horses may be scratched up to an hour before the race. 10. Some trainers meticulously plot out a schedule for their stakes horses, months in advance, that is likely to earn the most money and accolades. |