Key Bets & Races for Saturday, January 6 Kitten’s Joy Stakes – Race 7 at Gulfstream Park– Post 3:05 PM Eastern Time Speed Franco is well named as he crushed an 11 horse field last month in the identical Pulpit Stakes over the course at a mile. This 7 1/2 furlong trip is about the same and he’s two-for-two (both wins at a mile on turf) and still improving. His debut win came from off

Keenland – Saturday, Oct 7 Friday – Keeneland Race 8 – Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Solid field of 11 sprinting six furlongs on the main track. If the #11 Whitmore (3-1) of the spring shows up today, then everyone else is running for 2nd place. That being said I don’t trust him and am not one to play a short-priced favorite who is coming into this race off two subpar performances. I landed on #2

Key Bets & Races for Saturday, December 30 Via Borghese Stakes – Race 10 at Gulfstream Park– Post 4:37 PM Eastern Time Martini Glass has done little wrong this year, winning four of nine races and finishing second in another four. Two of the second place finishes came in grade 1 stakes on dirt behind Songbird and behind Romantic Vision and when moved back to grass four weeks ago she got up by a nose

Key Bets & Races for Saturday, December 26 Mathis Brothers Mile Stakes – Race 6 at Santa Anita– Post 5:40 PM Eastern Time (2:40 PT) Kroy gets the rail for this mile trip, as well as Javier Castellano, for a relatively unknown trainer in California but one who is well known all over the east coast, with 50 wins in 250 races this year. Kroy won three in a row in July, August and September,

Key Bets & Races for Saturday, December 16 Rampart Stakes – Race 5 at Gulfstream Park – Post time 2:05 PM Eastern Time This race is a very good betting race by virtue of the fact the second and third morning line choices are suspect in my opinion. Lewis Bay, who opens at 7 to 2, comes back from a year on the bench and no matter how good Chad Brown is overall, his stats