WEDNESDAY,
JULY 29
SPOT PLAYS
SARATOGA
Race 4
#4 Lucky
Asset
Looks like a
horse that wants more distance, and should benefit from this stretchout attempt
to 1 1/8 miles at two turns for the first time. Exits a solid second-place
finish at Keeneland last time, and the time before that exited a fourth-place
finish with a terrible trouble in a key race at Churchill where the winner and
third-place horse both came out of that race to win again in their next starts.
Solid speed figures and lands in a winnable spot here at The Spa.
Race 8
#6 Blackjack Davey
Plus play exacta box w/#8 Danny Progressive
#6 Blackjack
Davey should be ready to beat NY-bred winners after an impressive maiden win by
four lengths, and was geared down in the stretch at Belmont in that first
stretchout attempt to a route. Likely to make it 2-for-2 at a distance.
Play in
exacta box with #8 Danny California, who won when last out at this two-turn 1
1/8-mile distance, and has also already won at this trip at Saratoga. Got
pinched back at the break, then stayed on a dead rail for a ground-saving trip
on the part of the track everyone else avoided two races ago, then finished a
closer third last time. Knocking on the door at present.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29
SARATOGA
RACE 1
1 – #4 Critical Data 2-1
2 – #1a Global Freedom 7-2
3 – #2 Anticipating 3-1
RACE 2
1 – #4 Belleza 7-5
2 – #7 Cross Keys 8-5
3 – #5 Queentigua 20-1
RACE 3
1 – #2 Super Cute 3-1
2 – #9 Positive Skew 5-1
3 – #4 Five Alarm Robin 5-2
RACE 4
1 – #4 Lucky Asset 5-2 Best Bet
2 – #6 Vicarage 7-2
3 – #2 Hometown 9-2
RACE 5
1 – #1 War Canoe 8-5
2 – #2 Wegetsdamunnys 7-2
3 – #4 Classic Lady 7-5
RACE 6
1 – #1 Reed Kan 7-2
2 – #5 American Power 3-1
3 – #3 Pete’s Play Call 5-2
RACE 7
1 – #10 Kitten’s Cat 4-1
2 – #4 Sayyaaf 8-5
3 – #8 Vici 8-1
RACE 8
1 – #6 Blackjack Davey 2-1
2 – #8 Danny California 4-1
3 – #2 Bebe Banker 5-2
RACE 9
1 – #7 Breaking the Rules 3-1
2 – #8 Devamani 9-5
3 – #1 Wissahickton 7-2
RACE 10
1 – #1 Zaccapa 5-2
2 – #4 Sequin 3-1
3 – #6 Spectacularsunrise 5-1
4 – #9 Zero to Sixty 8-1
