SATURDAY,
JUNE 6
SARATOGA
BELMONT
STAKES DAY
SPOT
PLAYS
Race
5
#8
Scarlett’s Halo
Returned
from a six-month layoff last time for Chad Brown and needed the race but still
finished a solid third, just a nose out of second behind runaway winning 1-5
favorite Sandtrap, who returns as one of the principal contenders in today’s
Grade 1 Just a Game Stakes. Ready to roll now in a more winnable spot in second
off the layoff
Race
13 – BELMONT STAKES
#8
Emerging Market
Plus
in exacta box with #4 Renegade
#8
Emerging Market won his career debut over Powershift and then won the Louisiana
Derby in only his second career start. Went to the Kentucky Derby short on
experience last time in just his third lifetime race and was not embarrassed in
that outing which will help his maturity now in his fourth start. This race lacks much speed and closers
like Kentucky Derby 1-2 finishers #9 Golden Tempo and #4 Renegade could be at a
disadvantage. Emerging Market in his career has shown more stalking ability to
race closer to the pace and can launch his rally earlier than the favorites.
That ability will serve him well in this field on a race track at Saratoga that
favors his running style over the deep closers at this distance. Ready to roll
in first race at the Saratoga base of trainer Chad Brown. He’s the horse to
beat.
Play
in exacta box with #4 Renegade, who just missed winning the Kentucky Derby
after breaking from the Kentucky Derby “death rail” post one and getting roughed
up after the start. He ran a huge race, and the “off-the-Derby-rail” angle has
been strong in recent Belmont Stakes with both 2024 winner Dornoch and 2022
winner Mo Donegal both cashing-in at the Belmont Stakes under similar circumstances.
SATURDAY,
JUNE 6
SARATOGA – BELMONT
STAKES
RACE
1
4
Cold Spell 3-5 Best Bet
5
Fusion 10-1
8
My Sherrona 10-1
RACE
2
3
Life and Times 9-5
9
Senior Officer 2-1
8
Commuted 6-1
RACE
3
6 Tenacious Leader 5-1
8 Intellect 6-5
9 Candytown 4-1
RACE
4
2
Naïve Melody 3-1
6
Chatter 4-1
1
P Mutter Pickle 8-1
RACE
5
8
Scarlett’s Halo 6-1 Upset Special
10
Imperatrice 5-1
6
Curlin’s Angel 5-1
RACE
6
8
Sea Strike 4-1 Upset
Exactas
3
Buttah 15-1 Upset Exactas
1 Playa Del Mar 6-1 Upset Exactas
5
Local Knowledge 5-2
RACE
7 – Just a Game Stakes
3
Segesta 7-5 Stakes Best Bet
2
Sandtrap 3-1
4
Mandanaba 9-2
RACE
8 – True North Stakes
6
Book’em Danno 2-1 Best Bet Exacta and Trifecta Boxes
3
Bentornato 8-5 Best
Bet Exacta and Trifecta Boxes
2
Imagination 4-1 Best
Bet Exacta and Trifecta Boxes
RACE
9 – Jaipur Stakes
5
Reef Runner 4-1
6
Ag Bullet 3-1
8
John the Beer Man 10-1
RACE
10 – Woody Stephens Stakes
6 Crude Velocity 9-5
5 Solitude Dude 6-1
2 Obliteration 8-1
RACE
11 – Metropolitan Mile Handicap
1
Nysos 9-5
7
Journalism 5-2
3
Antiquarian 6-1
6
Knightsbridge 7-2
RACE
12 – Manhattan Stakes
6
Bright Future 3-1
8
One Stripe 6-1
1
Test Score 12-1
RACE
13 – BELMONT STAKES
8
Emerging Market 6-1 Upset Special
4
Renegade 2-1
3
Chief Wallabee 3-1
2
Powershift 12-1
RACE
14
3
Winnebago 10-1 Live Longshot
12
Sounds Like a Plan 9-2
8
Elnajd 5-1
10
Outrunner 5-1
