SARATOGA
SPOT PLAYS
Race 9
#5 Classic
Q
Plus
exacta box with #1 Reining Flowers
#5 Classic
Q got out front to a clear lead, controlled the pace, and went wire-to-wire
over a pair of these same challengers last time in Saratoga’s Wild Applause
Stakes. Looking around this field, there once again appears to be a lack of
pace to put pressure on Classic Q up front, and under those circumstances she
looms a threat to repeat.
Play in
exacta box with #1 Reining Flowers, who has not yet had a chance to run her race
in her two prior outings as a 3-year-old, first in an off-the-turf race and
then last time on a very yielding turf course at Penn National. She looked
excellent at Saratoga last summer when she broke her maiden at the Spa and ran
a close third with a troubled trip in the P.G. Johnson Stakes. John Velazquez,
who has ridden her all over the map, shows continued faith and keeps the mount
at 15-1 on the morning line.
Race 11
#6 Nonna
Lynne
Stalked mid-pack
very early last time out but then lost position in trouble back to the rear of
the field into the first turn, which probably cost her the win in a race where
she rallied to lose by just a neck in her return outing off an eighth-month
layoff. Looms large for trainer Chad Brown
in second off layoff.
SATURDAY, JULY 26
SARATOGA
RACE 1
7 Cold as Hell 6-1
1 Gun It 5-1
4 Otto the
Conqueror 8-5
RACE 2
6 Further Ado 5-2
5 Accost 6-1
2 Amador 8-1
RACE 3
6 Middle Market 2-1
4 Brave Buck 3-1
8 Tarpaulin 5-2
RACE 4
4 Arthur’s Ride 4-5
5 Big Blue One 9-2
3 Film Star 7-2
RACE 5
9 Korrongo 4-1
11 Ready Set
Twirl 10-1
6 Unbroken Chain 6-1
RACE 6
4 Tongue Twister 5-2 Best
Bet
13 Summer Whirl 5-1
12 Bryant and
Cooper 9-2
RACE 7
7 Tommy Jo 4-1
9 Academia 5-1
8 Immortalize 5-1
RACE 8
6 Roofer 6-1
4 Blamicker 8-1
9 Kenny Be 7-2
RACE 9
5 Classic Q 2-1
1 Play With Fire 15-1
10 Reining
Flowers 4-1
RACE 10
5 Sovereignty 2-5
3 Mo Plex 10-1
1 Baeza 3-1
RACE 11
6 Nonna Lynne 6-1
9 Hello Beauty 5-2
3 Off Script 9-2
RACE 12
8 Majorca 5-1
10 Hedge the Risk 9-2
9 Battle Drum 6-1
7 Fateful Lightning 2-1
