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Sprinting at Santa Anita

The Chosen Vron has been nothing short of a win machine with a huge heart sitting at 15 for 20 lifetime. It seems all he does is win whether against California bred sot in open company. He is 10 for his last 11 and the loss came in The Breeders’ Cup Sprint where he was only beaten 5 lengths. He loves Santa Anita and loves 7 furlongs. The Grade 1 winner will be odds on

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The Tampa Bay Derby 2024

I always look twice at horses coming off the Tampa Bay Downs dirt track. I think it is a somewhat quirky track that can play funny, but it gets horses fit and legged up as they say. It is also looked at as somewhat second or third tier so often those horses are overlooked at some of the bigger meets. On Saturday I will be looking directly at Tampa as we have The Tampa Bay

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday March 9th, 2024

Florida Oaks – Race 10 at Tampa Bay Downs -Post Time 4:45 PM Eastern Top Contenders: Style Points, Dynamic Pricing Other contenders: Pharoah’s Wine Style Points is on a strong pattern for improvement off a neck defeat in the similar Sweetest Chant Stakes at Gulfstream Park last month, at this distance on turf. She had broken her maiden on 12/24/23 in her second career start, at this distance on turf, improving to a 93 Equibase

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The Fountain of Youth 2024

Nine are scheduled to go to post for The Fountain of Youth on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Two of the scheduled runners, Speak Easy and Merit are also entered in an allowance race on Friday and as of now we don’t know where each will start. That is an important factor to consider as both have some early speed and one or both coming out of The Fountain of Youth will impact the pace.  

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday March 2nd, 2024

Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes – Race 11 at Gulfstream Park -Post Time 4:20 PM Eastern Top Contenders: Ticking, Shaq Diesel, Tumbarumba Other contenders: Castle Chaos, Steal Sunshine Ticking may be disregarded by many bettors and go to post at decent (high) odds, which is fine for us who believe he can win. The recently turned four year old won by large margins at seven furlongs on dirt at Gulfstream last February and March, then ran

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