Illman: How I'd play Belmont for Saturday, July 4
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his best plays on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
Dan IllmanJul 03, 2015
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his best plays on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
My focus for this Los Alamitos program will be the end-of-the-day pick four (races 6-9) as it appears to offer some opportunities. While there may be some confusing aspects to three of the legs (maiden races in legs 1 and 2, then restricted claimers in leg 4), a short field with a couple strong combatants in the Los Alamitos Derby (leg 3) may allow you to branch out in those other races to try to snag a price.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, July 4th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
DRF handicapper Matt Bernier provides analysis of a pick four wager on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
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Although other races on the Saturday card at Belmont have more star appeal than the Belmont Derby, it is that race that holds the most draw to this horseplayer in what seems the most contentious stakes race of the day.
I like Tommy Macho, who is 2 for 2 at the Belmont Park meet and should be a reasonably good price in Saturday’s Dwyer Stakes.
Nite Delite (#2, ML 5-2) returns in Thursday’s eighth race at Los Alamitos, a six-furlong maiden special weight race. It will be her first start since finishing fifth by four lengths in a maiden special weight race May 23 at Santa Anita. The first-, third-, and sixth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
Brad Free's horses to watch exiting the Santa Anita meeting, for the week of June 30.
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