Ellis Starr’s Blog
Key Races & Bets for Saturday July 22nd, 2023
Molly Pitcher Stakes – Race 10 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:38 PM Eastern Analysis and main contenders: Search Results, who opens as the 8 to 5 favorite, is a nice mare who has banked $1.6 million while winning six of 14. On the other hand, she has lost ground in the last eighth of a mile in her two starts this year and doesn’t seem as good (just slightly) as a five year old
Key Races & Bets for Saturday July 15th, 2023
Prince George’s County Stakes – Race 7 at Laurel – Post Time 3:31 PM Eastern Analysis and main contenders: Royal Patronage is a contender but NOT the horse to beat. He opens at 5 to 2 on the drop from the Grade 3 Arlington Stakes last month when fifth with no excuse at 2 to 1 and won an allowance race prior to that. On the other hand he’s one for five since importing to
Key Races & Bets for Saturday July 8th, 2023
Belmont Oaks Invitational – Race 8 at Belmont – Post Time 4:43 PM Eastern Analysis and main contenders: Chad Brown, who seemingly dominates many stakes races on grass, has a pair in here in the form of Prerequisite and Aspray, who open at 5/1 and 6/1, respectively. The morning line maker in New York is pretty accurate and so if either or both of these fillies are near these odds they offer a lot of
Key Races & Bets for Saturday July 1st, 2023
Marine Stakes – Race 5 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:26 PM Eastern Analysis and main contenders: The reason for choosing this race to start this week’s KEY betting races is the morning line odds of 6/1 for Simcoe are ridiculously high. Turf King opens at 2 to 1 and as far as those being near the horse’s odds near post time those are correct because he’s trained by Chad Brown and finished third in
Key Races & Bets for Saturday June 24th, 2023
Lady Jacqueline Stakes – Race 11 at Thistledown – Post Time 5:35 PM Eastern Analysis and main contenders: Sixtythreecaliber opens at five to one in spite of a runner-up effort in the higher level Grade 3 Shawnee Stakes at Churchill Downs three weeks ago. THE REST of the 12 horse field comes out of allowance races, starter allowance races or out of the non-graded DuPont Stakes on Preakness weekend. The Shawnee was a winning prep
