Key Races & Bets for Saturday September 28th, 2024
Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Stakes – Race 6 at Aqueduct (Belmont at the Big A) – Post Time 2:40 PM Eastern
Top Win Contender: Emmanuel, Far Bridge, Silver Knott
Other contenders: War Like Goddess
There is little doubt in my mind Get Smokin will go for the lead and open up, as he draws the rail and only wins when leading from the start. He won the 2023 Kentucky Turf Cup at this 12 furlong trip in that fashion, and he won the United Nations Stakes at 11 furlongs in July the same way, but there are too many good horses in this field who, in spite of the early pace, can run him down late.
The 2024 Jockey Club Oaks Invitational
A full field of eleven is set to go a mile and three eighths on the grass at Aqueduct opening Saturday of what they lie to call Belmont at The […]
Key Races & Bets for Saturday September 14th, 2024
Natalma Stakes – Race 5 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:25 PM Eastern
Win Contender: Mountain Breeze
For second on exacta tickets and third on trifecta tickets: Annascaul, Winterberry, Ready for Candy
When the powerhouse Appleby Stable (for Godolphin) sends a horse to Woodbine for the two year old stakes, this race and the Summer Stakes (race 9), they mean business. Appleby won the race in 2018 and 2021 with La Pelosa and Wild Beauty, who had both finished second in the Sweet Solera Stakes in England the previous month. Marco Botto also won this race, in 2017 with Capla Temptress, off a third place finish in the Sweet Solara Stakes. Mountain Breeze shows the identical pattern, having finished second last month in the Sweet Solara Stakes. She has run in stakes facing winners three times since earning her first win in May, as compared to all but three of the other 12 who enter the race having only faced maidens.
Saturday’s Selections July 6th, 2024
The Grade 1 Belmont Derby at a mile and three sixteenths this year will have a heavy favorite in Legend of Time. Coming off a win in The Pennine Ridge […]
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Saratoga and Del Mar will both be here before we know it. We plan on taking our share of big swings at both meets. We’ll see if we can pad […]