BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, December 30, 2017, by Bob Fierro & Jay Kilgore

Happy New Year! Let’s hope there are many pari-mutuel goodies for you to gather in 2018. Last week’s Pick was scratched, but even so in a week of nasty weather there were eight BreezeFigs maidens that won—six of them at double digit payoffs. The winners came at Aqueduct ($35 BreezeFigs trifecta), Fair Grounds, Gulfstream (two), Laurel (a $411 BreezeFigs exacta headed by It’s a Doozy, a propitiously named $84 winner), Santa Anita and Tampa Bay (two). Saturday's card is likely to be compromised by cold weather, but we found a spot in the South to check out, see below. Good luck!

If you’d like to learn a little more about how we come up with BreezeFigs, take a look at our new website by clicking here: www.biodatatrack.com and click on the tab BreezeFigs at the top of the page. In there you will find a link to a major study of how over 17,000 BreezeFigs horses from the sales 2007 through 2013 have succeeded on the racetrack based on Group and stride length. You can also access that study by clicking this link: www.biodatatrack.com/BreezeFigs-Study.pdf.

Here’s Saturday’s Pick:

Fair Grounds, 1^st Race, Maiden Special Weight, 5 ½ Furlongs (Turf)

Side-by-side in the gate, first timers Esperanza Diamond and Gia Victoria are listed at 4-to-1 and 7-to-2 in the morning line and that could be generous in the case of Esperanza Diamond. She posted a two-over-Par Group 2 profile at OBSJUN where she rattled a quarter mile in 21.1 with a 25.03-foot stride length (SL), almost three-quarters of a foot longer than average for fillies that day at the distance. Gia Victoria did not shake the trees at OBSAPR as her five under Par Group 3 ticket featured a 22.25-foot SL, a foot below average for fillies that day at an eighth. She will need to step that up considerably to earn a slot here but might be a gimmick saver in the short field in which Esperanza Diamond should be your key. Good luck!