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Spending a day at a racetrack can hardly be considered an act of charity -- unless you’re talking about “donating” to the track’s bottom line with your wagering dollars.

Yet a day before the meet’s signature stakes for 3-year-old fillies, Saratoga’s focus will fall on a charitable endeavor that will benefit women in a manner which will extend far beyond the grounds of the historic racetrack.

Friday, on the eve of the Alabama Stakes, the Spa will celebrate “Fabulous Fillies Day” with a full slate of “think pink” events to heighten awareness and raise funds to fight breast cancer.

As part of the day’s events, the first 25,000 customers will receive a pink wristband, courtesy of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which will be the beneficiary of the day’s events.

For a day, Saratoga’s traditional red colors will be replaced by shades of pink as the track will be cloaked with pink bunting, ribbons and flowers. There will be a full slate of races for fillies and mares and grooms will wear pink jackets.

Meanwhile, the track’s backyard will be the venue for B95.5’s “What Women Want -- Saratoga Style” event, presented by Time Warner Cable. It’s billed as a lifestyle expo and will feature displays from health, wellness and beauty vendors, interactive games, prizes, and a Chinese auction.

Can’t say I’m that familiar with a Chinese auction, but if the prize is a pint of shrimp with lobster sauce, I’m there.

Pink drinks, including pink lemonade, as well as pink t-shirts will be sold, with a share of the proceeds going to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The highlight of the day will be the “Sizzling Hot Pink Saratoga Hat Luncheon,” which will start at 11:30 a.m. in the track’s Upper Carousel dining area.

Larry Norton, the deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer programs at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, will speak at the luncheon, which will also feature a St. John Boutique fashion show and a silent auction.

The luncheon will also honor Dogwood Stable’s Anne Campbell for her efforts in the field of community service.

Tickets for the benefit luncheon are priced at $150 and are available by contacting NYRA’s director of community relations Joanne K. Adams at (718) 659-2262 or jadams@nyrainc.com.

So if you’re in the vicinity of Saratoga, stop by and do your part to help the cause. Donations are welcomed on one of those rare days where even if you go 0-for-9 at the betting windows, you can head home a winner.

The ‘Mo’-mentum builds

The Travers is two weekends away and it’s looking more and more like it will be New York’s most exciting day of racing in 2011. Aside from the Mid-Summer Derby, Uncle Mo keeps taking giant strides in his comeback from a liver ailment and remains on target to run in the King’s Bishop, one of the stakes on the Aug. 27 undercard.

Last year’s 2-year-old champion has reeled off five-furlong workouts of 1:00.22 and 1:00.34 in the past week, giving off more hope that he’s returning to the form that made him a heavy favorite to win the Kentucky Derby.

With The Factor scheduled to greet Uncle Mo in the seven-furlong sprint stakes, the one-two punch of the King’s Bishop and Travers promises to have the Spa aglow with the kind of star power the 3-year-old division has sorely missed this season.

“Uncle Mo is looking like the Uncle Mo we saw before the illness. All I can say about his recent workouts is ‘wow,’” said owner Mike Repole, whose colt has not raced since early April when it finished a shocking third in the Wood Memorial. “It doesn’t matter who runs against him in the King’s Bishop. I wouldn’t trade places with anyone.”

The Travers promises to bring together Repole’s Stay Thirsty, Haskell winner Coil and Preakness winner Shackleford in a duel for division leadership at the Kentucky Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter.

If you’re looking for some early insight into how those three match up, the Ragozin speed figures the trio registered in their last races paints a picture heavy with Repole’s orange and blue colors. On a scale in which lower numbers are better, Coil notched an 8 in the Haskell, Shackleford a 7 in finishing second to Coil at Monmouth and Stay Thirsty had a far superior 3 in the Jim Dandy (figures are rounded off).

Using that measuring stick, even if Stay Thirsty slips a little bit off the Jim Dandy he could still win the Travers unless the other two or someone else takes a big jump forward.

Stay tuned.

SARATOGA - RACE 6

PICK: #11 Fast Grievance (3-1) (turf only) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 8/1 Tight quarters rail far turn, shuffled, awaited seam midstrech, crowded, ran on between late.

Brian's Playbook: Win and 3x place and strong EX with #7 and a smaller backup underneath.

Mike Repole’s silks are blue and orange, but the native New Yorker is seeing bright red these days.

Enraged might be a mild way to describe Repole’s reactions to recent decisions by the Breeders’ Cup to stage the 2012 event at Santa Anita Park in California and to ban Lasix, a diuretic, in its 2-year-old races in 2012 and from all of its races in 2013.

One of New York’s largest and most prominent owners, Repole said not only should the Breeders’ Cup reconsider its decisions but “they better reconsider,” adding that unless there’s a change, he would actively promote a fall series in New York to compete with the Breeders’ Cup.

“If I put my heart into it, I’ll turn the Breeders’ Cup into the [now defunct] ABA [American Basketball Association]. … This could be the end of the Breeders’ Cup. … I want an explanation for what they did [in choosing Santa Anita] and they’re not offering any,” said Repole, who first voiced his feelings in a Blood Horse blog post. “I guess that’s because it makes no sense. There’s no reason or justification for it. There should be an investigation over it. It’s just not right.”

The final straw for Repole in his anger with the Breeders’ Cup came earlier this week when Santa Anita was selected over Belmont Park and Churchill Downs as the host site for the 2012 Breeders’ Cup. In awarding the series to Santa Anita, next year will mark the third time in five years that track has been the host site, while Churchill Downs will host the $26 million, two-day series on Nov. 4 and 5 for a second straight year. Belmont Park, meanwhile, has not been awarded the Breeders’ Cup since 2005.

“With each passing day I feel stronger about this, and the feedback I’ve gotten is overwhelming. Everyone I’ve talked to believes this is a travesty. If they gave New York the Breeders’ Cup three out of five years I’d feel it’s unfair. I don’t think the people who created the Breeders’ Cup envisioned this as the Masters at Augusta or the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. It’s not fair to fans on the East Coast who can’t get to California. The Breeders’ Cup should be thinking about the horses, the fans, the owners and the trainers and they’re not doing that right now. Everybody seems to get it except the Breeders’ Cup.”

While Repole said he has yet to approach anyone at the New York Racing Association about competing with the Breeders’ Cup, the owner of past and perhaps future champions such as Uncle Mo, Stay Thirsty and Overdriven said he would happily skip the Breeders’ Cup if it means shipping to California in 2012.

“If NYRA is willing to move some of their major races and compete with the Breeders’ Cup, I’ll not only support it, I’ll help fund it,” Repole said. “Charlie Hayward [NYRA’s President and CEO] took the high road over this, but it was the biggest slap in the face to New York racing that I’ve ever seen, and the Breeders’ Cup shouldn’t think they can just get away [with] it. That’s not right.”

On the topic of Lasix, Repole believes the Breeders’ Cup and other groups are doing a disservice to horses and horsemen by outlawing the anti-bleeding medication. Earlier this week, the American Graded Stakes Committee joined the Breeders’ Cup in announcing that tracks must ban Lasix in 2-year-old graded stakes -- races in New York like the Hopeful and Champagne -- in 2012 or those races would lose their graded status.

“Lasix is the one medication horses should be allowed to run on. Horses need it. Research shows it’s good for a horse,” Repole said. “No Lasix will mean the end of every small track in America. There are plenty of people on the Breeders’ Cup board who race horses, well, to set an example I think they should stop running their horses on Lasix right now. A group can take a grade away from a stakes, but states like New York and New Jersey will decide if Lasix is allowed. It’s incredible what they’re trying to do.”

As Repole’s anger grows, he says it's his fervent hope for a bright future for racing that diminishes.

“Each time I hope this sport would unite, we go in different directions,” Repole said. "We compete more off the track than we do on it and this is a competitive sport. It’s the worst marketed sport in history and all we’re doing is accelerating its demise. And that’s a shame because it has such a loyal and passionate fan base. I thought this sport had maybe 10 years left the way it was going, but I now I think it’s down to five to six years left before it implodes. It’s mind-boggling how this sport keeps shooting itself in the foot.”

SARATOGA - RACE 2

PICK: #1 Little Dale (7-2) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 8/5 Wild speed, in control off turn, drifted out badly midstretch while not changing leads, gaining in the last few strides when set straight.

Brian's Playbook: Win and 3x place and EXBX with #3 and #5.

It’s good to be the bugler.

For Sam Grossman, the 40 days and nights of the Saratoga racing season are like a trip to an oasis where he is treated like royalty.

Now in his 19th season as the bugler at all three New York Racing Association tracks, it’s at Saratoga, the spot where horse racing is king, where the man with the horn becomes a rock star.

With each passing year, the 46-year-old Grossman has become more of a fan favorite with the huge crowds that pack the upstate racetrack. In some ways, the man in the bright red jacket has emerged as a more visible figure than some of the track’s best jockeys.

“For six weeks a year here at Saratoga I feel like Willy Wonka,”

Grossman said. “Every day of the 46 weeks a year I’m not at Saratoga, I think about going to Saratoga. I get so spoiled up here. I play for one million people at this meet and while I have people who take notice of what I’m doing at Aqueduct and Belmont, it’s nothing like what happens here at Saratoga.”

Perhaps the best example of that came recently when Grossman, his girlfriend Jennifer and her son Ethan went to Chianti’s restaurant for some calamari. No sooner were they seated than people nearby started chanting, “Sammy, Sammy!” and asked for him to play “The Call to the Post,” just as he does before every NYRA race.

Grossman did not have a trumpet with him, but, being a musician, instead of a spare tire there was a Vuvuzela and a slide whistle in his car's trunk and with some accompaniment from Ethan, they brought a slice of a Saratoga Race Course to the restaurant.

“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined things going this well,” Grossman said. “Every summer I think things will flatten out at Saratoga, but they get exponentially better.”

Aside from creating a stir in local eateries, Grossman’s popularity is reflected in the paintings of him you’ll see around town, or the bobblehead doll NYRA issued of him. Earlier in the meet NYRA had a “Bet the Bugler” handicapping contest in which three fans were given a chance to collect a cash prize if their selections amassed a higher bankroll than the bugler. Apparently Grossman is better at hitting high notes than longshots as he finished up the track against the three fans. Nevertheless, the promotion only enhanced his stature as a Saratoga icon.

Grossman has been playing the trumpet since 1971 and, like a champion race horse, was bred to be a performer. His mother, Jean Shirley, played the trumpet in an all-girl band. Grossman also spends some of his spare time in a band -- the classic rock group Full House -- and his identical twin brother also plays the trumpet. He worked as a music teacher before coming to NYRA, where he is now focused on nine or 10 daily renditions of “The Call to Post” and finding a special tune to entertain the fans before a stakes race.
Of course, it isn’t all nirvana. As Grossman points out, “It’s brutally uncomfortable in a fox hunt outfit when it’s 95 degrees outside.” Yet a few beads of sweat can’t wash away the joy Grossman has experienced at the Spa.

“I could see doing this at Saratoga for the next 30 years,” said Grossman, who also calls the horses to the track at the Preakness.

“It’s a nice relationship I have with the people in Saratoga. I play the trumpet at nursing homes and charity events all throughout the meet. They embrace me and I embrace them right back.”

Yes, it’s good to be the bugler.

SARATOGA - RACE 2

PICK: #2 City Sneakers (5-1) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 6/22 Rated on lead, measured nicely, asked, responded, held clear; back to his best.

Brian's Playbook: You won't see this ML but at 3-1 or higher he's worth a 2x win and 4x place bet and a definite must-use in the early Pk4.
h 1,5,6.

Opera Heroine takes the Mrs. Ogden Phipps Stakes steeplechase horse race at Saratoga on August 11, 2011.

SARATOGA - RACE 3

PICK: #3 Henny's Hurricane (7-2) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: Perfect press through soft splits, waited, advanced to lead early stretch, finished up well to hold. Pace of race makes it tough to gauge and tough to love with lots of conviction, but she looked good.

Brian's Playbook: 2x Win, 2x Place, 3x Show

SARATOGA - RACE 5

PICK: #2 Snow Top Mountain (5-2) (turf or dirt) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 6/29/11 Ind - Sat chilly behind honest pace, moving turn, held up, steadied, lost momentum, evenly late.

Joe's Playbook: 1 unit Win & 3x Place #2; potential single in multi-race wagers

Sean Avery takes the 2011 Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga.


New York Rangers fans should have had a “Matteau, Matteau” moment at Saratoga on Sunday.

Let’s just say that if you like the Broadway Blueshirts and you didn’t cash on the winner of the $250,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes, then you probably know how Dale Rolfe felt after running into Dave Schultz’s knuckles.

Sean Avery, the horse, not the hockey player (we’re not talking about a Chad Ochocinco stunt here), captured the Vanderbilt, holding off a late charge by Trappe Shot to win by a nose in the kind of race that has made the Spa famous -- a prospective champion falling short to a longshot.

Judging by the tote board, there must have been more Devils fans than Rangers fans on hand as the horse named after the Rangers winger paid $36.20 to win in a result that had to agitate anyone in a Martin Brodeur jersey.

Trainer Alan Iwinski wasn’t one of them as he was still beaming a day after collecting his first Grade 1 stakes victory.

“Yesterday I was so excited, I couldn’t stop talking about everything that happened,” Iwinski said by phone from his Monmouth Park barn. “Today is another day. ‘Sean’ came out of the race great.”

In winning, Sean Avery returned to the brilliant form he displayed for Black Swan Stable in capturing the Longfellow at Monmouth by 11 3/4 lengths. The 5-year-old gelding subsequently bounced with a runner-up finish in the Monmouth’s Longfellow on the Fourth of July, but fired a wrist shot into the net with his score in the Vanderbilt.

What’s the next goal for Sean Avery is somewhat of a mystery as Iwinski would only say, “We’re just going to celebrate for now. I’ll wait a few days before I talk to John DeStefano (managing partner of Black Swan Stable) about our options.”

Trappe Shot came into the Vanderbilt as the pro-tem leader of the sprint division before going down to defeat at “The Graveyard of Favorites,” and while there was no disgrace in such a narrow loss on a track that was kind to inside speed, the Vanderbilt showed he could be vulnerable down the road in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, where he’ll once again be asked to play catch-up against a full field of lightning-quick runners at six furlongs.

“It’s disappointing to lose because this was a Grade 1 race and it means so much to a stallion’s potential,” said trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, whose horse broke from the outside post in a field of eight. “The post position, obviously, had us racing wide. The track was favoring speed. (Jockey John Velazquez) said everything was against us; speed on the inside and he had to use him hard and ask him twice. A jump before and a jump after (the wire), we’re a winner. It was a tough loss. Still, he ran great for what he had to do.”

The Forego on Sept. 3 seems the next logical step for Trappe Shot, though the seven-furlong distance might be a deterrent for Sean Avery, who has yet to race beyond 6 1/2 furlongs.

In a way, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if Sean Avery stays on ice for that one.

Seal Cove takes control in the stretch to win the Gleaming Stakes at Saratoga on August 8, 2011.

At least there’s clarity.

The handicap ranks in New York finally has a clear-cut leader in the aftermath of Tizway’s three-length victory in the $750,000 Whitney at Saratoga.

You can say, it’s about time, and that was indeed the key part of the race: time.

While the Whitney is a Grade 1 stakes and arguably the second-best stakes during the 40-day Saratoga meet, the final time in Saturday’s edition seemed more in line with a bunch of claiming horses running one lap around the Spa’s mile-and-an-eighth oval.

Tizway needed 1:52.43 to cross the finish line, which was the slowest winning time in the Whitney since 1959.

As bad as that sounds, Suburban winner Flat Out needed another 3/5th’s of a second to follow Tizway under the wire and Giant Oak and Friend Or Foe were noses apart another three lengths -- or another 3/5th’s of a second -- behind Flat Out.

Making Tizway’s time even more baffling was that he was coming off a victory in the Metropolitan Handicap on Memorial Day when he posted a lightning-fast final time of 1:32.90 that dazzled speed figure mavens and was the second-fastest clocking in the 118-year history of the race.

Clearly, when a field as classy as the 11 horses that ran in the Whitney register times that slow, there’s something amiss with the surface. Yet while Saratoga was more akin to quicksand than an expressway, the final time should have been better, raising doubt over the group’s ability to stand tall when the races get longer and the competition intensifies.

Tizway is scheduled to run next in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a mile and a quarter Grade 1 test on Oct. 1 at Belmont. That race should shine a light on his chances in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the same mile and a quarter distance. Tizway, an oft-injured 6-year-old horse, was third in the 2009 Gold Cup.

“He’s fit. Believe it or not I’ve already booked his works through the Gold Cup,” said Tizway’s trainer James Bond. “When you can do that with a horse, you have a big edge.”

After finishing fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Tizway’s connections are intent on running in the BC Classic this year. His Whitney victory earned Tizway a guaranteed spot in the BC Classic through the Breeders’ Cup Challenge series, which seemed an exciting prospect when he crossed the wire well clear of the rest of the field.

The time was the downer.

But at least we know who’s the one to focus on. Flaws and all, Tizway is the best of this bunch, and in a few more weeks, we’ll learn more about Stay Thirsty and Coil through the Travers, Game On Dude and Twirling Candy through the Pacific Classic, and the fabulous ladies Blind Luck and Havre de Grace through wherever their connections send them to tower over the competition.

There’s even Uncle Mo and The Factor on the outside of the bubble looking in.

Put all of those races and horses together and by Labor Day we’ll have a better idea of the battle for Horse of the Year honors, which looms as a match race between Blind Luck and Havre de Grace right now.

“If (Tizway) wins the Gold Cup he’s 2-1 to be the leader,” Bond said. “If he wins the Breeders’ Cup Classic, I feel he stamps it. When you win the Met in the time that he did it and the way that he did it, and he comes back with a pretty crushing race yesterday, if he can win the Gold Cup it’s going to take a really good horse to outshine him at the end of the year, as long as he stays together.”

As they say, time will tell.

A race with some appeal

The race after the Whitney on Saturday generated nearly as much controversy as the Grade 1 stakes. It was a relative obscure non-winners-of-1 race for New York State-breds, but created a large buzz after the race and could hold legal implications in the months ahead.

The race itself was a three-horse thriller to the wire.

Ground Force, at 53-1, had a short lead at the eighth pole. But Bound by Humor, at 9-2, battled back inside him and Wee Freudian, at 9-1, rallied outside him. They raced as a team to the wire, with Bound by Humor forging to a short lead and holding on to win by a half-length with Wee Freudian edging Ground Force by a neck for second.

No sooner did the horses cross the line than the stewards flashed the inquiry sign and the first Great Debate of the Saratoga meet was underway.

Looking at the head-on view of the race, Ground Force bumped Bound by Force early in the stretch, but then within the shadow of the wire, Bound by Humor came out sharply, hitting Ground Force and shoving him into Wee Freudian.

The stewards took a long look at the films, but let the result stand, making official an $86,701 Pick Six payoff. Had there been a disqualification there would have been a gargantuan three-day pick six carryover to Sunday’s card.

The stewards announced Sunday that in their judgment the bumping did not alter the order of finish. That didn’t sit well, though, with Michael Sternklar, owner of Wee Freudian. He filed an appeal with the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, and if the board agrees with him, Sternklar will receive the winner’s share of the purse.

Now if you hit the pick six, fear not, your kid’s college tuition fund is safe. Even if the Board reverses the stewards’ decision, the mutuel payoffs will stand. Only purse money is affected, not wagers.

All of which means, if you’re a bettor there are indeed times when you can wind up a loser but still come out a winner.

SARATOGA - RACE 1

PICK: #1 Babai Baby (4-1) (turf or dirt) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 8/7 Overweight and not ready off the rest. UPDATE: First-hand observations in the paddock Opening Day, so it will be interesting to see her appearance in the PP today and with the blinks now added and the return to turf sprinting you can easily assume the last was nothing more than a tightener for today.

Brian's Playbook: Ladder play of win, 2x place and 3x show and $1 double wheel with "all" in the R2.

As much as Saturday’s Whitney Handicap may help shine a light on the East’s best older male horse, some words to the contrary may be heard Sunday.

While a mile figures to be the longest distance he’ll run this year, Trappe Shot seems talented enough to become such a dominant force among sprinters that it might bring out envy from an evenly matched group of older routers.

When last seen, Trappe Shot was winning the True North Handicap, a Grade 2 sprint stakes, by 8 1/2 lengths on Belmont Stakes Day, and on Sunday he’ll take aim at his first Grade 1 stakes win when he faces seven rivals in the $250,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga.

Versatile and talented enough to finish second in the nine-furlong Haskell last year, Trappe Shot owns a perfect 2-for-2 record in 2011, having captured an overnight stakes at Belmont in his season debut, and though it’s still early in the year, hinting about an Eclipse Award is hardly out of line.

“We feel like he’s there right now, so it’s important to win a Grade 1 for him as a stallion and maybe as champion sprinter,” trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said. “We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but he’s doing very well.”

Making it 3-for-3 looms the most difficult challenge Trappe Shot has faced this year. Installed as a 7-5 favorite in the six-furlong Vanderbilt, he’ll have to be at the top of his game to handle a field that includes Apriority, who will be looking to notch his first stakes win after coming oh-so-close in the Sunshine Millions Sprint at Santa Anita, the Carter Handicap and Churchill Downs Stakes. He was second in each of those races, losing by a combined margin of less than two lengths.

Apriority missed the Smile Handicap at Calder in early July due to a foot abscess, and will need to shake off the rust to beat Trappe Shot in first start since the Kentucky Derby Day, May 7.

“We might be a little behind the eight ball, but we need to run and he usually brings his ‘A’ game over,” trainer David Fawkes said.

Hamazing Destiny, who was second in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, is another major threat for the favorite. He was second in the ungraded James Marvin Stakes on opening day at the Spa while making his first start since the Breeders’ Cup.

The rest of the field includes Noble’s Promise, Bank Merger, Atta Boy Roy, Calibrachoa and Sean Avery.

Sunday’s card also features the Honorable Miss, a $150,000 sprint for fillies and mares. Irish Gypsy, who has won three straight stakes on the West Coast, ships in from California for trainer Bob Baffert and is a slight 5-2 favorite in an evenly matched field of five.

Saratoga odds and ends

-- Can’t say I’ve seen a line in the past performances like the one that belonged to Mabou in Thursday’s second race. The steeplechaser was coming off a win by 82 lengths at the Radnor Hunt Races on May 21. Yep, 82 lengths! Take that, Secretariat.

Horses often “bounce” after a big effort and Mabou was no exception to that rule. After finishing an area code ahead of the runner-up last time, he faded to fifth Thursday as the 8-5 favorite in a 2 1/16-mile claimer.

Interestingly, he was claimed out of Thursday’s jump race by David Jacobson, who at last look wasn’t a steeplechase trainer. At least Jacobson will have nothing to worry about if Mabou tries to jump a shadow in his next race.

-- As a public service on behalf of all New Yorkers, I’d like to remind NYRA CEO Charlie Hayward that his organization is called the NEW YORK Racing Association, with the emphasis on the NEW YORK.

This is provided because on Friday, hours before the New York Yankees headed to Fenway Park to re-assert their superiority over the BOSTON Red Sox, NYRA had a rivalry promotion in which fans wearing Yankee or Red Sox clothing received $2 off their admission.

Excuse me? Giving a pinstripe-wearing NEW YORK Yankees fans a $2 break to get into a NEW YORK Racing Association track makes perfect sense. That should be standard operational policy every day of the week. But a BOSTON Red Sox fan? Please! In New York, people wearing a Red Sox hat should be charged double to get into a NEW YORK Racing Association track.

It’s only fair. The only thing someone wearing a Yankees hat at Fenway Park in Massachusetts will get for free this series is a cup of beer poured on them or a slab of pizza hurled at the side of their head.

Remember, guys, it’s the NEW YORK Racing Association.

SARATOGA - RACE 3

PICK: #3 Bubble Gum (5-1) (4 stars)

Our Eyes: 6/25 Baker worried by lack of pace, attended soft splits, had to do the dirty work chasing, tired late; perfect comeback.

Brian's Playbook: Win and 3x place and $1 tri wheel over #1,#4,#5,#7.