With a little creativity, ingenuity and imagination, you can actually put together your own outside-the-box Breeders’ Cup-style card today.
Yes, sir! Numerous attractive added-money events on the docket mean you can cherry-pick a handful of tracks, construct a specialized, personalized racing program consisting of nothing but top-class events. Sort of like the stuff they offer on World Championships weekend, only better, since there’s no troublesome Euros involved. Do it now!
We can’t cover ’em all. Some are contracted to the paying customers who’ve scaled the formidable paywall. But here’s the best of the rest.
As usual in the headliners at Aqueduct, there’s a standout: #1 Quiet Giant seems prohibitive in the ninth, the Ladies.
Fair Grounds is one of the places you’ll want to hang out at all day long, and not just for the La. Derby.
For example, Race 6 is the Grade II New Orleans, and it should be wide-open. We’ll go against the morning-line fave with the sensible trio of #3 Mission Impazible, #4 Birdrun, #7 Apart. No big balloons, but a chance to chuck the chalk nonetheless.
In the Derby itself, Race 10, everybody’s hot selection should do OK, but give at least an exotics longshot look toward #1 Nacho Business and #8 Le Mans.
Tampa 9 is the New Port Richey Elks (not to be confused with the Zephyrhills Rotary). In it, contention abounds, so we go with #9 Pink Pallet, #4 Classy Zip and #5 Broadway Marquee. Bombs away!
The Spiral Staircase is the 10th at Turfway, and that one’s restricted to the loyal subscribers. Regrets!
However, we do offer this Extra for Experts in the form of bonus coverage from lovely Fonner Park in beautiful downtown Grand Island, Neb. It looks like a frontrunning romp in the ninth, the Ogataul, for odds-on #6 Reach One More. In the 10th, the Orphan Kist, mild longshot appeal comes from #8 Spice Swirl.
Exhale!
As always, best wishes for a prosperous Saturday!
