Familiar rivals Tapiture and Carve break side-by-side in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on Monday. Tapiture and Carve will vie for favoritism in the mile and a sixteenth race.
Is a Grade 3, $100,000 stakes the spot where you experiment? It is for trainer Gary Mandella, who sends the 5-year-old mare Living The Life to Golden Gate Fields to compete against males in Monday’s one-mile All American Stakes.
Last Memorial Day, Southern Honey won the Grade 3 Winning Colors as a 3-year-old over older fillies and mares. So why can’t she repeat as a 4-year-old?
Castletown and El Seventyseven, a pair of accomplished 7-year-old geldings, both ran in last year’s $75,000 Honor the Hero Stakes, and they return for Monday’s edition of the five furlong turf dash at Canterbury Park.
Starting this weekend, they’ve brought back the $300,000 guarantee for the late pick four on Saturdays, so let’s take a swing at it.
There are a couple runners later on the program who may be of use to you for your in-race and multi-race wagers.
DRF handicapper Dan Illman provides his best plays for Saturday's program at Belmont Park.
DRF handicapper Matt Bernier provides his best plays on Saturday's program at Santa Anita.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 5/24 card at Balmoral Park.
Trainer Gary Sciacca looks well armed to have a big Memorial Day when he runs Saratoga Snacks in the $200,000 Commentator Stakes and Wincoma in the $125,000 Mike Lee Stakes.
