Illman: How I'll play Saratoga for Saturday, Sept. 3
DRF handicapper Dan Illman outlines his strategy for playing the late pick five on Saturday's card at Saratoga.
Dan IllmanSep 02, 2016
DRF handicapper Dan Illman outlines his strategy for playing the late pick five on Saturday's card at Saratoga.
Two-year-olds are in the spotlight Saturday – fillies in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante, colts and geldings in the $100,000 Del Mar Juvenile Turf. Both fields include playable maidens at double-digit odds, beginning with the Juvenile Turf that is race 6.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, September 3, 2016 by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore
In the Glens Falls Stakes at Saratoga, I like the chances of Itsonlyactingdad, who has looked like her old self in her last two starts after a dreadful performance in the spring in the Jenny Wiley.
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Shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, outside his barn at Saratoga, trainer Bob Baffert walked Arrogate over to a smattering of assembled media to let the press “get up close and personal with the fastest horse to ever step foot on this track,” he said. Arrogate, not yet a ham like some other horses, stared at the press corps, as if to wonder what the fuss was about. “I don’t think he realizes what he did yesterday,” Baffert said.
Travers Day at Saratoga offers 13 races, including six Grade 1s, and features 14 of the best 3-year-olds in the country going 1 1/4 miles on the main track in a wide-open running of the Midsummer Derby. Where to begin?
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, August 27th, 2016 by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore