8/8: Saratoga (Day 10/Whitney-Test/$141k C/O)
 

Yet another day of hard-to-nab winners tripped a doubl carryover into Saturday's Whitney-Test card. Caught chalky first three exactas ($12, $18, $15) easily enough to start the day, before 8-1 I'm Your Lady upended the early P4 try. $55 exacta in the 6th (I've Got Speed-Natural Speed) was actually a nice boost before West Point firster slipped through the cracks in the 7th and killed an multi-race hopes on the afternoon. Best Value Jet Set Vinny ($16) was OK in the 9th and the $30 late double came in to close out the mediocre effort. Hope you did OK. Pair of big Gr. I's and $141k carryover highlight the otherwise humdrum card, with Arlington's Million Day blockbuster slate quite alluring...


SARATOGA RACE COURSE


PRE-SCRATCHES


1st: CLM/N2L, 3+, 6f (P3, DD, Super)

Well-matched bunch..

Most Likely: #1 Global Effect 5-1
Best Value: #9 Brecciate 8-1 WON
Next Best: #3 Mr. Universe 6-1
Super Add: #5 Headache 6-1


2nd: MSW, 3+, 9f-IT (P4, P3, DD, Super)

Stall 2-1 favorite not appreciably better than many of the prices..

Most Likely: #3 Parker's Project 8-1
Best Value: #1/1a Kelly entry (One goes) 15-1
Next Best: #8 Spell 2-1
Super Add: #4 Cross the Divide 10-1


3rd: NYB-MSW, 3+, 5.5f-T (P3, DD)

Good luck.. A collection of non-descript what-not, but at least #8 Western Collection actually finished in front already before DQ negated diploma..

Most Likely: #8 Western Connection 7-2
Best Value: #11 Elsie's Warrior 9-2
Next Best: #4 Todo K 3-1
Exotics Use: #10 Fort McCoy 5-1 WON


4th: MDN CLM, 3+, 6f (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #4 Futuristic 7-2
Best Value: #5 Kelode 8-1
Next Best: #3 Thiefontherun 3-1
Super Add: #6 Chief Tomoka 12-1


5th: NYB-MDN CLM, 3+, 6.5f (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #2 Afrikaner 1-1 WON
Best Value: #5 Argentinian 8-1
Next Best: #11 Coach Fruscio 6-1
Super Add: #3 Rizzi's Devil 10-1


<$75 P4 Play:

2: 1-3-8
3: 4-8-10-11
4: 3-4-5
5: 2-5

3x4x3x2 = $72


6th: NYB-ALW/N1X, F&M-3+, 1m-IT (P6, P3, DD, Super)

Really interesting Empire ALW with elite set of likely types with a couple of bombs sprinkled within. Not in love with Morrison's Z Cats Meow (#8), but can't she speed-pop this?

Most Likely: #5 Chorus Music 4-1
Best Value: #4 Exclusive Scheme 6-1 WON
Next Best: #7 Ketubah 5-2
Super Add: #1 Cugatcha 30-1


7th: NYB-OC/N2X, 3+, 8.5f-T (G/S, P3, DD, Super)

Incredibly hard state-bred ALW.. Trip will be the deciding factor so don't be afraid to take prices and spread in the P6..

Most Likely: #12 Urban Flight 8-1
Best Value: #9 Solvent 20-1
Next Best: #6 Missinglisalewis 3-1
Super Add: #10 Piazza Di Spagna 8-1


8th: John Hettinger, 3yo-F, 1m-IT (P4, P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #1 (POE) Kiawah Cat 7-2
Best Value: #4 Complicity 8-1
Next Best: #8 Maram 5-2 WON
Super Add: #10 Project Rose 10-1


9th: 84th Test (Gr. I), 3yo-F, 7f (P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #2 Cat Moves 2-1
Best Value: #1 Pretty Prolific 12-1
Next Best: #5 First Passage 3-1
Super Add: #8 All of Her Twist 12-1


10th: 82nd Whitney (Gr. I), 3+, 9f (DD, Super)

Best Value: #2 SCR
Most Likely: #7 Commentator 8-5
Next Best: #4 Macho Again 7-2
Super Add: #6 Dry Martini 8-1


11th: CLM/N2L, F&M-3+, 5.5f-T (Super)

Most Likely: #5 Stayawaystella 6-1
Best Value: #6 Treat Her Right 10-1
Next Best: #8 SCR
Super Add: #12 Tutti Va Bene 15-1 WON


$300 P6 Play:

6: 1-4-5-7
7: 6-9-12
8: 1-8
9: 2
10: 2/SCR-7
11: 5-6-8

4x3x2x1x1x3 = 72 x $2 = 144


<$75 P4 Play:

8: 1-4-8
9: 1-2-5-8
10: 2-7
11: 5-6-8

3x4x2x4 = $72


Good luck!
Steve

Asiatic Boy is now scratched from the Whitney

How in the world do I leave Penna's first start of the SPA off P3 and P4 plays???

That's a terrible job outta me. Guy is having some sort of year. Horse ran HUGE here a few summers ago. P3 and P4 Payouts looks JUICY. And I'm holding dead tickets.

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Impossible to fathom that someone had Bullsby and Tutti Va Bene covered in the P6....

I hope Steve had some of the Sciacca horse as he usually bets them.

Pretty amazing.

And two of the carryover horses run 2-3.

D'oh.

siacca..unreal

Unbelievable score for sure. If the winner was doing anything outside of picking numbers they are absolutely insane.

Luzzi or Mig in the last at the Spa on the a weekend...that's only way I could have come up with the 12. Bombs away!

:tro: Absoutely...

As always, you can't stop the Round One... You can only hope to contain him.

The other Tony Piazza horse, Piazza D Spagna, was also ready to run, but got bounced around and shuffled and stymied much of the way in the very deep 7th that Gold Vendetta won. Tutti had just come back to her top effort last time and was sitting on a forward move. Gary and Paul were uncertain about the distance, but she ran great and Luz gave her a first class ride.

Combined win tote on Tutti with exacta hits in the Bev D and Million to rescue the day. Gary has a client named Pauline, who has a horse in Wednesday, who somehow had the $903 exacta for $50.... You read that right.

I hope he gave her some claim tickets to sign or gave her a NY bred catalog for next weekend.

:eek:

can someone tell me how the hell this Pick six was hit? Hard to believe a syndicate would spend the money necessary going into a 150k plus carryover. IM thinking some grandma played birthdays and lucky numbers and hit it