Wednesday TimeformUS Highlight Horse: Crypto Mama can build upon encouraging debut

Saratoga | Race 7 | Post Time 4:29 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up

This auction-restricted maiden event features a couple of fillies with experience who could attract support. U Glow Girl (#6) seems likely to take money again after getting bet down to 2-1 favoritism in her career debut. She contested a fast opening quarter that day before fading and deserves some credit for finishing ahead of her other pace rivals. However, she lost by 13 1/2 lengths to a winner who was only two lengths off the lead at the first call. Perhaps Leave No Trace is just a talented specimen, but I want to see some confirmation of that race’s quality after the runner-up returned to regress on turf. Brad Cox is 32 for 105 (30 percent, $1.49 ROI) with 2-year-old maiden second-time starters in dirt sprints over five years. These runners win, but they tend to get overbet.

I’m taking the other second-time starter CRYPTO MAMA (#7). Kelly Breen is 9 for 30 (30 percent, $2.00 ROI) under those same parameters mentioned above for Cox. She may not have been facing the strongest field at Monmouth in her debut, but I liked the way she stayed on at the end. That pace was pretty slow relative to the final time, with all TimeformUS Pace Figures color-coded in blue. She was the only one to be passing runners late on a day that also is coded as favoring speed. She seems like one that will surely appreciate added ground as a daughter of Cloud Computing, and she gets a rider upgrade to Joel Rosario.

The other horse I’d use is firster Oh Donna (#4). I liked her OBS sale workout, and Ray Handal has had some success with debut runners over the past few years.

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WIN: #7 Crypto Mama, at 9-5 or greater