Ellis Starr’s Blog

Amwager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 18, 2019

AmWager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 18, 2019  Race 2 at Pimlico – Post Time 11:05 AM Eastern   Although race two on the Preakness day card isn’t one of the many great stakes races, it’s a KEY BETTING Race in my opinion owing to the fact He’s One Wild Dude opens at 12/1 and Sir Brahms opens at 6 to 1. He’s One Wild Dude returned from four months off last month

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Amwager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 11, 2019

AmWager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 11, 2019 Ballade Stakes – Race 8 at Woodbine – Post Time 4:59 PM Eastern   Blurricane appears set to post an upset in this race she won in 2017 off the same long layoff since the previous year she’s coming back from today. She didn’t run in this race last year but again fired nicely off the bench, finishing second following six months off last June.

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 4, 2019

AmWager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, May 4, 2019   Jacques Cartier Stakes – Race 8 at Woodbine – Post Time 4:40 PM Eastern   Extravagant Kid missed by three-quarters of a length in last year’s edition of this race, to Pink Lloyd, who also returns, but Extravagant Kid has a race this year and Pink Lloyd does not and that may be how the former turns the tables on the latter. Extravagant Kid

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday, April 27, 2019

AmWager Key Races & Bets for Saturday, April 27, 2019 Race 7 at Woodbine – Post Time 4:23 PM Eastern   Town Classic, a very consistent gelding with 11 first or second place finishes in 21 races on dirt or all-weather, opens at 12/1 odds which are impossible to ignore and so the horse becomes the key to profit in this excellent betting race. First or second in his last four races at Hawthorne and

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday, April 20, 2019

Key Races & Bets for Saturday, April 20, 2019 Race 8 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 4:28 PM Eastern   Although the championship meeting at Gulfstream is behind us and although this isn’t a stakes race, the eighth race at Gulfstream is a KEY RACE because I’ve been waiting for Rose Velvet to return to the races since her last start in July, 2018. The mare was purchased privately by Team Valor prior to

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