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Downey Profile Analysis: Sham Stakes an Odd Mix

Updated: Saturday, February 3, 2007 1:34 PM
Posted: Friday, February 2, 2007 1:39 PM

By Dick Downey
TheDowneyProfile.com

What an odd grade III race the Sham is. There’s a maiden coming in off a 13-day break, a horse that broke its maiden in its second and most recent start, a $7,000 horse with enough earnings already to assure it of a berth in the Kentucky Derby, a turf runner switching to the dirt, and an invader from New Mexico. Let’s try to figure out what is and isn’t a sham here. More...

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