Key Races & Bets for Saturday May 10th, 2025
Take the A Train Stakes – Race 9 at Belmont at the Big A (Aqueduct) – Post Time 5:46 PM Eastern Top win contenders: Lovely Emma, Hey Bertie, Disco Star […]
The Fort Marcy 2025
While all the focus shifts to Kentucky and The Kentucky Derby it can be wise and profitable to look at other venues for value and underlays. It is difficult to […]
Three Year Olds times Three
It is that time of year and again the three-year olds take center stage with The Withers at Aqueduct, The Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park and The Robert E Lewis […]
One Week Out – Breeders’ Cup 2024
We are one week out from the Breeders’ Cup. The early pre entry past performances are out. Speed figures are out and although there are some cross entries and possible […]
Key Races & Bets for Saturday October 26th, 2024
Race 7 at Keeneland – Post Time 4:12 PM Eastern
Win Contenders: Strike When Ready, Lady Emily Kathryn, Kehoe Beach, Work of Fiction
This is an exceptionally wide open race with a full field which should lend itself to profit as there are a few horses likely to go to post at much higher odds than make sense. One of those is Strike When Ready, who just won on 9/17 at the one lower NW1X allowance level. She did so with a visually impressive rally from eighth with a quarter mile to run and was still fifth and seven lengths back with an eighth of a mile to go before blowing by four horses to get up by a neck. Previously, she imported from Ireland over the winter after just one race in Ireland and ran poorly for Gallagher in California in April, but when shipped to the care of Correas she was a new horse and won in July to break her maiden, before taking a big step forward to win last month, earning a 95 Equibase Speed Figure which is the BEST last race figure in the field. Not only that but Jose Ortiz was up for the first time in victory and rides back and there is every reason to believe this filly can win her third in a row, opening at 12 to 1.