Saturday’s Race Recap from Belmont Park and Churchill Downs:
(All odds US)
Race replays from Belmont Park can be found here:
Belmont Park:
Race 7: 10th@ 15.00/1
Race 8: 1st@ 1.70/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Race 9: SCRATCH
Race 10: 1st@ 2.75/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What a day! Members who played today’s selections had FOUR winners from SEVEN selections 💰💰💰💰💰🏆🏆🍾🍾🍾🍾
Hoopla started our day from Belmont Park in Race 7 and got away to the early lead we had hoped for but had no punch when the going got tough and packed it in at the top of the stretch. In the Champagne Stakes, Jack Christopher stalked Gunite and turned on the afterburners in the stretch stamping himself as the early favorite for the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile. After a scratch in the Belmont Turf Sprint, Art Collector carried his speed the entire mile and an eighth of the Woodward giving us our second winner from three Belmont picks on the day!
Race replays from Churchill Downs can be found here:
Churchill Downs:
Race 3: 1st@ 1.20/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Race 5: 7th@ 2.30/1
Race 8: 6th@ 18.50/1
Race 10: 1st@ 5.80/1 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Knowing Glance was our first pick of the day at Churchill Downs in Race 3 and had a few anxious moments early on but proved best in the lane wearing down the controlling speed. In Race 5, Father G broke ok, stalked the pace and looked uncomfortable being behind horses for most of the stretch drive checking in 7th. In Race 8, the Lukas Classic, Sprawl sat just off Knicks Go who was able to set a controlled and easy pace. He made a bid turning for home and was rebuffed by the likely Breeder’s Cup Classic favorite who was simply too good. In our final race from Churchill Downs, Plainsman stalked the pace and easily held off a mild bid from our favorite to win the Ack Ack giving us our second winner on the Churchill Downs card of the day and our fourth winner overall.
We’ll cover races from Belmont Park for Sunday. Once again we expect sunny skies with mild conditions. A fast main track and a firm turf course. Let’s make some money!
Sunday picks for Belmont Park:
Race 1: Sosua - 1 pt win (US Morning Line Odds: 6/1)
Turf sprinters kick off our Sunday in this allowance race and our morning line favorites look ok on paper but not unbeatable. Sosua is interesting. We caught this runner first time out in March at Tampa Bay Downs when she aired - winning by nearly 13 lengths. She followed that up with two more wins before being thrown to the wolves in her first stakes race going a longer distance. Sosua’s dam - Cara Marie was a stakes winner on turf and was a far better turf runner than on dirt. Her sire - Speightstown wins with 14% of his turf sprinters and her Tomlinson numbers for turf and distance are 340 and 419 which tower over most of these. Trainer Arnaud Delacour wins with 23% of his turf sprinters. Interesting new face at a generous 6/1.
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Race 7: No Down Days - 1 pt win (US Morning Line Odds: 15/1)
Claiming fillies go a mile and a sixteenth on the lawn and No Down Days appears to be the speed-of-the-speed in this spot. She’s got the early speed to establish a good early position and if left alone she might be able to take them coast to coast at long odds.
Best of luck to everyone playing Sunday’s races from Belmont Park!