Watchmaker: How I'd play Belmont for Saturday, May 9
DRF handicapper Mike Watchmaker provides his analysis and best plays on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
Mike WatchmakerMay 08, 2015
DRF handicapper Mike Watchmaker provides his analysis and best plays on Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
Belmont’s Saturday card features four graded stakes races, including the Peter Pan for 3-year-olds and the Ruffian for fillies and mares. With the two main turf races carded as part of the late pick four, I’ll bet that wager with a base bet of 50 cents and a budget of $100.
Govenor Charlie (#2, ML 8-5) starts for the first time since April 13, 2014, in Friday’s fourth race at Santa Anita, a 1 1/16-mile optional claimer. Trainer Bob Baffert is winning at a 30 percent clip when saddling a horse coming off a layoff longer than 180 days, for a return on investment of $2.33.
Discreetly Elusive (#6, ML 7-2) returns in Friday’s fourth race at Belmont Park, a six-furlong optional claimer. It will be her first start since a fourth-place finish by 4 3/4 lengths in an optional claimer Feb. 4 at Gulfstream Park. The first- and second-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, May 9th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
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Some thoughts that popped into my brain while I sat in traffic as 170,000 fans inched along in their cars leaving Churchill Downs after Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
I was impressed with Radiator’s recent U.S. debut at Keeneland, and she is my preference in Saturday’s Beaugay Stakes at Belmont Park.
Eight horses came out of the Kentucky Derby starting gate with triple-digit Beyers.
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