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Key Races & Bets for Saturday January 22, 2022

Race 6 at Aqueduct - Post Time 2:48 PM Eastern Win contenders are Moonachie, South Sea and Mi Tres Por Ciento. Horses to be considered for second on exacta tickets are Summer Bourbon, Gran Casique and Speeding Kid. Moonachie runs first off the claim by Vasquez, hitting at a VERY high rate so far at the meeting with seven wins from 19 starts. The key here is in spite of being off for almost five months off the $12,500 claim, Moonachie is raised to the $16K level. That’s because his last race at Aqueduct, [...]

By |2022-01-21T08:13:10-05:00January 21, 2022|Aqueduct Race Picks, Ellis Starr's Blog, Horse Racing Podcast, key horse races|
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Key Races & Bets for Saturday January 15, 2022

Race 7 at Tampa Bay Downs - Post Time 3:25 PM Eastern We start off a four race sequence where we can play the late Pick 4 and a couple of Pick 3s. The first leg is a six furlong maiden special weight (maiden allowance) race with a nearly full field of 11 newly turned three year old fillies. There are three strong win contenders plus two more to add to the multi-race bets. The top trio consists of Belle of the Ball, Laugh and Play and Quality and the other two are Summer [...]

By |2022-01-14T08:02:52-05:00January 14, 2022|Ellis Starr's Blog, Horse Racing Podcast, key horse races, Tampa Bay Downs Race Picks|
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Key Races & Bets for Saturday January 8, 2022

Race 7 at Gulfstream Park - Post Time 3:05 PM Eastern This is a great betting race for newly turned three year old straight maidens running a mile on dirt around one turn. It’s great because if the morning line holds up, Touch Code is going to be a HUGE low odds overlay. He opens at 7 to 2 and that may just hold up for reasons I’ll mention in the next section. Touch Code finished second to a seven length winner in his debut last month, in a field of 10, a big [...]

By |2022-01-07T07:20:58-05:00January 7, 2022|Ellis Starr's Blog, Gulfstream Park Race Picks, Horse Racing Podcast, key horse races, Santa Anita Park Race Picks|
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Key Races & Bets for Saturday January 1, 2022

Limehouse Stakes - Race 7 at Gulfstream Park - Post Time 3:05 PM Eastern Bueno Bueno returns from five months off and won two in a row before the rest, the second of the pair on turf and the first on dirt. Both were sprints and he was on an improving pattern at the time which I expect to continue. As a fresh horse there’s little doubt he’s going to go for the lead from the start under Saez, and that’s the key to controlling the pace and winning this race If Bueno Bueno [...]

By |2021-12-31T08:38:52-05:00December 31, 2021|Aqueduct Race Picks, Ellis Starr's Blog, Gulfstream Park Race Picks, Horse Racing Podcast, key horse races|
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Key Races & Bets for Sunday December 26, 2021

San Antonio Stakes - Race 6 at Santa Anita - Post Time 4:30 PM Eastern (1:30 Pacific) Kiss Today Goodbye and Azul Coast finished second and first, respectively, and separated by a neck in the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes last month at Del Mar. Those were huge efforts which can be repeated here, particularly as Kiss Today Goodbye won the 2020 San Antonio off a win at Del Mar one month earlier and Azul Coast ran the best race of his career two starts earlier this summer at Del Mar. The heavy favorite [...]

By |2021-12-22T08:48:09-05:00December 22, 2021|Ellis Starr's Blog, Horse Racing Podcast, key horse races, Santa Anita Park Race Picks|
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