Among the purposes that José Lezcano promised himself, is to take advantage of the absence of the great majority of the horsemen staff that is based on the racetracks of the Big Apple. So while John Velázquez, the Ortíz brothers and several others are breaking up in Florida, Panamanian José Lezcano is imposing his law in New York.
At the pace it takes, it will be impossible to reach it in the almost three months remaining to end the season that began last November, the weekend closed with twelve victories in between before Eric Cancel, his immediate pursuer. Puerto Rican Manuel Franco has not been able to appear as in other sessions and is placed in the fourth position to 16 wins of the current leader.
In Florida (Gulfstream Park) Irad Ortiz has already opened a gap for his four immediate rivals, the closest, Luis Sáez, is eight targets, while Emisael Jaramillo, the fourth place, is sixteen “long” apart.
The Mexican Paco López did not have much fortune these days, however he remains in the third place of the statistics and with the pique that is evident in each test where he meets the youngest of the Ortíz.
Friday, January 17 will be a day of confirmation for the two events that will lead the role of the Pegasus World Cup, where the most famous guest is still Omaha Beach. The roosters with more spurs such as Maximum Security and Gift Box, are already preparing suitcases to fly to Saudi Arabia.
In California, with two weeks of activity the Dominican Joel Rosario is marking the step in statistics, the Guatemalan Abel Cedillo and the Kentucky bred (Drayden Van Dyke) have a stone’s throw to Joel.
Since we mentioned the Louisville state, the weekend will run the Lecomte, which already has 14 confirmed applicants.