Saratoga | Race 1 | Post Time 1:10 p.m. (ET)
This is an interesting race where I could have made cases for a lot of different horses. The two likely favorites appear solid enough. Hello Beauty (#5) is obviously logical as she drops in against New York-breds for the first time in her career. She was supposed to run in a spot like this earlier in the meet before a shoeing issue forced her to be scratched. She was rerouted to another open company race where she got a wide trip to nowhere. This is the right level for her.
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It’s a game of opinions, right? And isn’t it also a game where opinion should bend with the accumulation of evidence? And, as trainer Steve Asmussen often has pointed out, in this game you need not merely state an opinion: You can bet on it.
Travers
Asmussen sends out a horse that as of a couple weeks ago would not, in my opinion, win the Travers Stakes. The Travers always has been Sovereignty’s race.
BLUE FASHION
Trainer: Luis Mendez
Last race: Aug. 14, 2nd
Finish: 3rd by 6
Beyer: 61
Two turns too far for $10k claiming filly, favored in N2L dirt mile. Pressed inside, tired, claimed by Mendez from Marcelo Polanco. Follow vs. similar around one turn.
Interested to see how the Alabama shakes out. No interest in betting it. The Del Mar Oaks drew a dozen, and all the Woodbine stakes feel playable. Jutland in the Soaring Free and Victory Achieved in the Bold Venture just missed the cut.
E.P. Taylor
After shifting from El Cordobes to El Rezeen (an El of a bad decision) in the Sword Dancer, I don’t plan to miss on a similar Godolphin horse.