Just Aloof

Delta Downs decided to give horseplayers an unprecedented break last week. For their daytime cards on Tuesday and Wednesday, the track lowered the takeout in all pools to just 10%. While other tracks have experimented with lowering the takeout in some pools, never before had anyone decided to slash the take in all pools. By doing so, it looked like Delta would provide the industry with some much needed data. What effect would such a low takeout have on handle and how would the ADWs and the CAW players react?...

She shipped in all the way from New York, but it ended up worth her while as Just Aloof (Justify--Aloof (Ire), by Galileo {Ire}) strode home best of all to claim the GIII Jimmy Durante Stakes at Del Mar. A winner at first-asking last out Oct. 16 during the Belmont Big A meeting, she topped a stablemate exacta that day and shipped in from her base in New York for this jump. Trainer Chad Brown enjoys a noteworthy record, and a reputation, for knowing what horses to ship where, and...

Whisper Hill Farm homebred JUST ALOOF (f, 2, Justify--Aloof {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) came running late down the center of the Aqueduct turf course to take her debut Thursday. The 8-1 shot, who spent much of the race in a mid-pack fifth, had to fan out wide with a quarter-mile left but rallied to get by race favorite and stablemate Market Hours (Practical Joke) in the final yards for the win. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0. O/B-Whisper Hill Farm; T-Chad Brown.

3rd-KEE, 110K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 2:04 p.m. Gustavo Delgado debuts COLOSSUS (Constitution) in Kentucky Thursday that includes JR Ranch, Fortune Racing (al Maktoum), KAS Ultimate Racing and G and O Racing. Purchased by Marquee Bloodstock for $975,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale after getting in a :10.3 breeze before the weather, the colt is out of a half-sister to GSW New York Central (Tapit), GSW Corfu (Malibu Moon) and to SP Runway Ready (Mr. Greeley), herself hte dam of MGSP Buttercream Babe (Twirling Candy). This is the family of MGISW...