SARATOGA
SPOT PLAYS
Race 8
#7 Antiquarian
Best
career race came at this track and distance last year when he defeated Sierra
Leone in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He looked good winning his 2026 debut in the
Westchester Stakes at Aqueduct and comes out of loss the Met Mile, which was
perhaps the toughest race of the year for older horses so far. In the Met Mile
he was pushed to the lead going against his natural stalking running style, but
in this race, he projects to get an absolutely ideal pace scenario behind 2-3
speed horses who will all need to deal with each other up front and won’t be
able to hold off Antiquarian’s stretch bid.
Race 10
#3 Full Screen
Plus
exacta box with #1 Bank Frenzy
#3 Full
Screen goes to the barn of Saffie Joseph after the $100,000 claim last time. Was
full of run in the stretch but hemmed in behind horses by an outer rival with
no way out and had to settle for fourth in that last race but ended 2025 in
career-best form and can rebound in this spot in his second race off the five-month
layoff.
Play in
exacta box with #1 Bank Frenzy, who broke last and lost ground four wide
on the first turn and lost best chance to do better than fourth last time in
first race back from five-month layoff. Can make amends with a better start.
SATURDAY, JULY 4
SARATOGA
RACE 1
4 Mashallah 3-5
1 Feminism 3-1
3 Lovely
Christina 5-2
RACE 2
1 Ori 8-1 Upset Special
4 Eponine 5-2
6 New Rose 10-1
RACE 3
5 Secretly
Delighted 9-2
10 Bourbon Milk
Punch 6-1
7 Home Wrecker 10-1
RACE 4
1 Lightning
Strike 9-5
8 Grace and Grit 7-2
5 Queens Cat 6-1
RACE 5
6 Jack’s Golden
Goal 8-1
2 Booked 3-1
4 Pocket Listing 9-2
RACE 6
8 Guilty 20-1 Live Longshot
11 Van
Vollenhoven 7-2
4 Truman’s
Commander 5-1
RACE 7
6 Fitz Right 6-1
8 Abashiri 5-2
10 Imaginationthelady 4-1
9 Ultimate Love 10-1
RACE 8
7 Antiquarian 3-1 Best
Bet
8 Hit Show 5-1
6 Phileas Fogg 8-1
RACE 9
9 Title Role 5-1
3 Remember Mamba 7-2
6 Pacific Avenue 6-1
RACE 10
3 Full Screen 7-2
1 Bank Frenzy 8-1
8 Bramito 5-1
RACE 11
11 Silly Season 2-1
1 Morning Prayer 7-2
2 Coach of the Year 12-1
7 Probable Choice 15-1
