Ellis Starr’s Blog
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 11
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 11 Flaming Page Stakes – Race 6 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:38 PM Eastern It always nice when the reason for a turnaround in a horse’s form jumps off the page, and so it is with Giovannna Blues, who took blinkers off after six clunkers wearing them and who rallied from last of nine, into a horribly slow pace, to get 2nd at 20/1 last
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 4
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, August 4 Note: With the potential for awful weather at Saratoga which may lead to off-turf or soft-turf races, I have decided to focus on some of the wide open races on West Virginia Derby day at Mountaineer, plus one race on the dirt at Saratoga. Check the very end for a couple of bonus races picks as well. Senator Robert C. Byrd Stakes – Race 6 at
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, September 1
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, September 1 Saranac Stakes – Race 9 at Saratoga – Post Time 5:39 PM Eastern March to the Arch is one of three main win contenders, but as he opens at 10/1 compared to 7/2 and 2/1 for the other two we have to start with him. Winner of the Toronto Cup Stakes last out on 7/28, the gelding has now run three “A” races in a
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 28
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 28 King Corrie Stakes – Race 5 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:05 PM Eastern Run Away won the first three starts of his career last spring and summer, including a pair of stakes. One of those was the important G2 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar. Not disgraced when 3rd behind Bolt d’Oro in the Del Mar Futurity after the trio of wins, Run Away won
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 21
Key Races & Bets for Saturday, July 21 Find Key Races & Bets for Friday, July 20th Below Ontario Colleen Stakes – Race 8 at Woodbine – Post Time 4:47 PM Eastern Trainer Graham Motion has a pair in this race, Peach of a Gal (5/2 morning line) and Armoricaine (15/1 morning line). Both are stakes winners on turf, the former last month in Delaware in an overnight stakes with a