Key Races & Bets for Saturday May 31st, 2025
Rehoboth Stakes – Race 6 at Delaware Park – Post Time 3 PM Eastern Top win contenders: Sunday Girl, Socially Selective For exactas: R Disaster Sunday Girl has won six of […]
Key Races & Bets for Saturday May 24th AND Monday 26th (Memorial Day)
Saturday May 24 Cliff Hanger Stakes – Race 9 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:57 PM Eastern Top win contender: BelouniFor exactas: Signator, There Are No Words, Forever Souper, He’spuregold […]
Key Races & Bets for Saturday July 20, 2024
Monmouth Cup Stakes – Race 10 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:38 PM Eastern
Top win Contender: Counterspy
Other win contender: Highland Falls
Counterspy is a “lone front runner” with an aggressive rider in Paco Lopez, who was up for a very strong win on June 10 where the horse won more easily than it appears, earning a 108 Equibase Speed Figure which is the best/fastest winning figure earned by any horse in the field this year. In his only start since, he did not get the lead in a seven furlong race where the opening half-mile was :44 and change but he was four lengths off that hot pace which projects to an easy lead in this two-turn race. Counterspy has won his last four two-turn races, all powerfully, with the one on March 24 even faster than on June 10, as he earned a 112 figure, and so it is highly likely he can win for the seventh time in his career. Even if low odds he may offer value in doubles to the next race, the United Nations, and similarly to the pick 3 ending in the Haskell (Race 12).
Key Races & Bets for Saturday June 22, 2024
Goldwood Stakes – Race 9 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:56 PM Eastern
Top Win Contenders: Freedom Speaks, Beauty of the Sea, All That Magic
Other win contenders: Hollywood Walk, Queen of the Mud
Freedom Speaks returns from a 14 month layoff but that’s not a concern because this is a sprint. She changed trainers since his last start to the high percentage D’Angelo barn and has been working steadily over the track for her return. She won the nearly half-million Music City Stakes last September a turf sprint, earning a 100 Equibase Speed Figure which is one of the two best (fastest) figures earned by any horse in this field, ever. Although that win came second off a layoff, she had won one month earlier off a layoff, in a turf sprint at this distance at Saratoga in a stakes level allowance with a $115K purse and with a 96 figure. Freedom Speaks also won the only other time she ran fresh in a sprint, in her debut, powerfully by fix lengths on all-weather, another indicator she really likes turf and will fire with a big shot off a layoff today.
Key Races & Bets for Saturday June 15, 2024
Eatontown Stakes – Race 9 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:55 PM Eastern
Top Win Contenders: Sacred Wish, Spirit and Glory
Other win contenders: Tax Implications, Maman Joon
Sacred Wish gets the rail and has the ability to lead from the start or to come from off the pace and win. She wired the field last month on grass in New York when improving off a third place effort following five months off and should take another step forward. She won a stakes race last summer when fifth in the early stages then two races later in November nearly won the similar Grade 3 Pebbles Stakes when finishing fast from seventh to miss by a half-length so she fits perfectly with these and her versatility gives her a slight edge.