SARATOGA
SPOT PLAYS
Race 7 – Saratoga
Derby Invitational
#6 Carson’s
Run
Plus
exacta box with #8 White Palomino
#6 Carson’s
Run just missed when second in the Grade 3 With Anticipation Stakes on this
course last year and then returned to win a Grade 1 at Woodbine in the Summer
Stakes. He was given a layoff after finishing ninth in the Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile Turf but has been on the comeback trail already this season including
a solid win last time in the $100,000 Tale of the Cat Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Now he’s ready to fire his best shot today in the third race of his form cycle
and could turn out to be better than these at a price based on the talent he
flashed last year with the logical progression from age 2 to age 3.
Play in
exacta box with #8 White Palomino, who has been knocking on the door with
near-miss second-place finishes in similar races in both of his last two races,
which were both head losses in graded stakes on this circuit for leading
trainer Chad Brown. He’s well worth a try if anything close to his morning line
odds of 8-1 with Flavien Prat aboard.
Race 11 –
Whitney Stakes
#9 Bright
Future
Seems
poised to have a big season. The future was now for Bright Future last year at
Saratoga when he took the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup, and after taking the
winter off, Bright Future returned to the races in sharp form with a win last
time in the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park. He’s prepped and ready for
another big Grade 1 Spa effort.
SATURDAY, AUGUST
3
SARATOGA
RACE 1
4 Reach for the
Roar 3-1
9 Asbury Park 9-2
7 Davy Crockett 8-1
RACE 2
3 Probability 5-2
4 The Toner 7-2
10 Spirit of the
Law 4-1
RACE 3
5 Cinderella’s
Cause 6-1
8 Movie Moxy 9-2
1 Deck of Cards 2-1
RACE 4
2 Dusk 8-1
3 Silent Melody 9-2
1a Gram 7-2
RACE 5
6 Classicist 3-1
5 Uncaged 6-1
7 Sea Vista 5-2
RACE 6
2 Contrabandist 5-1
9 Antietam 4-1
10 Math Tutor 15-1
RACE 7
6 Carson’s Run 8-1
8 White Palomino 8-1
3 Legend of Time 7-2
RACE 8
4 Ways and Means 7-5
1 Emery 5-2
6 Brightwork 6-1
RACE 9
5 Big Everest 4-1
9 More Than Looks 2-1
8 Smokin’ T 6-1
RACE 10
6 Cogburn 4-5 Best Bet
8 Grooms All
Bizness 8-1
7 Big Invasion 12-1
RACE 11
9 Bright Future 5-1
3 National Treasure 9-5
11 Arthur’s Ride 8-1
10 Skippylongstocking
8-1
RACE 12
7 St. Benedicts
Prep 4-1
2 Striker Has
Dial 5-2
4 Zadorsky 8-1
RACE 13
2 California Frolic 8-1
4 Beuys 6-1
10 Reckoning Force 9-2
11 Mondego 6-1
