Ellis Starr’s Blog

Key Races & Bets for Saturday January 6th, 2024

Race 7 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 3:08 PM Eastern Win contenders: Jamestown, American Diamond, Quality G Jamestown ran poorly in the first five starts of his career, through May, and we can draw a line through ALL of those races. He changed trainers in the late spring and after three and one-half months off returned, without blinkers worn for all his previous starts. He was entered in a mile and three-sixteenths race first

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday December 30th, 2023

Suwanee River Stakes – Race 8 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 3:32 PM Eastern Win contenders: Accomplished Girl, Sister Lou Ann, Fast as Flight Fast as Flight appears to have just been in as a prep for this race last time out on 12/3 on the all-weather course, where she finished fourth of eight. That’s because she had been off for five months prior to that and there were likely no other opportunities for

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday December 23rd, 2023

Tropical Park Oaks – Race 8 at Gulfstream Park – Post Time 3:36 PM Eastern Win contenders: Startup Mentality, Implicated, Be My Sunshine For exactas (second position): Cairo Consort, Breath Away Startup Mentality and Implicated (both trained by Chad Brown) finished third and first, respectively, in the higher level Grade 3 Pebbles Stakes last month in New York, and Startup Mentality had a much tougher trip so gets slight preference over her stablemate today. Startup

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Key Races & Bets for Friday December 15th and Saturday December 16th, 2023

Friday December 15 – Remington Springboard Mile – Race 10 at Remington Park – Post Time 10:28 PM Eastern Otto the Conqueror stands out in this nine horse field but with Doug O’ Neill shipping in Raging Torrent from southern California and having won the Zia Park Derby a couple of weeks back with a shipper, and with Brad Cox saddling a pair in Fidget and Gettysburg Address, Otto the Conqueror may not be a

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Key Races & Bets for Saturday December 9th, 2023

Wait a While Stakes – Race 6 at Gulfstream – Post Time 2:34 PM Eastern Win contenders: Milliat, Ozara Ozara and Milliat have the bulk of the probability to win this two-turn turf route for two year old fillies, but it is highly likely only Milliat can be bet to win as she opens at 8 to 1 compared to 8 to 5 for Ozara. So that’s where I’ll start. Milliat won her only start,

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