Key Races & Bets for Friday, May 29, and Saturday, May 30
Friday May 29 Penn Mile Stakes (Grade 3) – Race 6 at Penn National – Post Time 7:51 PM Eastern Top Win Contender(s): Immortalised, Alpyland Exactas in second: Honey Dutch […]
Key Races & Bets for Saturday June 28th, 2025
Tale of the Cat Stakes – Race 8 at Monmouth – Post Time 4:30 PM Eastern Win contender: Tom’s Magic Tom’s Magic appears to be the one to beat, by […]
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 September 14th, 2024
Natalma Stakes – Race 5 at Woodbine – Post Time 3:25 PM Eastern
Win Contender: Mountain Breeze
For second on exacta tickets and third on trifecta tickets: Annascaul, Winterberry, Ready for Candy
When the powerhouse Appleby Stable (for Godolphin) sends a horse to Woodbine for the two year old stakes, this race and the Summer Stakes (race 9), they mean business. Appleby won the race in 2018 and 2021 with La Pelosa and Wild Beauty, who had both finished second in the Sweet Solera Stakes in England the previous month. Marco Botto also won this race, in 2017 with Capla Temptress, off a third place finish in the Sweet Solara Stakes. Mountain Breeze shows the identical pattern, having finished second last month in the Sweet Solara Stakes. She has run in stakes facing winners three times since earning her first win in May, as compared to all but three of the other 12 who enter the race having only faced maidens.
Key Races & Bets for Saturday August 17th, 2024
Alabama Stakes – Race 10 at Saratoga – Post Time 5:43 PM Eastern
Win Contenders: Neon Icon, Candied, Just Basking
Neon Icon won the first two races of her career powerfully under Saez, including a five length “ridden out” win at 10 furlongs in May. She shortened up to a mile and one-sixteenth for the Indiana Oaks, where Chatalas got loose on an easy lead early and had enough late to hold off a charge by a head, while Neon Icon ran evenly when fifth most of the race. Saez was NOT aboard for that last race and gets back on and in this situation he could have Neon Icon sitting second behind Chatalas in the early stages. Considering Chatalas hasn’t run farther than a mile and one-sixteenth and Neon Icon has won at this 10 furlong trip, that gives her a slight edge. Considering she opens at 15 to 1 she’s well worth the risk here.