Belmont: DRF Plus handicapping report for June 8, 2014
DRF Plus handicapping analysis for Belmont on Sunday, June 8.
DRF StaffJun 07, 2014
DRF Plus handicapping analysis for Belmont on Sunday, June 8.
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DRF Plus closer looks for Churchill Downs on Sunday, June 8.
DRF Plus closer looks for Belmont on Sunday, June 8.
The appealing Saturday card at Belmont Park includes six Grade 1s and several shippers from California that made their most recent start at Santa Anita. A quick review of the West-to-East shippers is in order.
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Vann Belvoir continues to hold a hot hand. Parada ($3.60) won race 1 Friday at Santa Anita, a restricted claiming race for fillies and mares. It was Belvoir’s fourth winner from his last eight starters, and fifth of meet.
With only two horses returning Saturday’s Mint Julep at Churchill Downs after having last raced in the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile on Derby Day – I’m Already Sexy and Miz Ida – the 2014 renewal of the Mint Julep appears below average compared to past runnings.
Five races on the main track, all sprints, played two full seconds faster than par, capped with an upset win by Palace (race 9, $20.60) in the Grade 2 True North.
A reminder that today’s epic 13-race program, the richest day of racing in North America other than Breeders’ Cup Saturday, has a first post of 11:35 a.m. Eastern, so if you’re planning on playing the 50-cent pick five with a $500,000 guaranteed pool that starts with race 1, rise and shine.