Handicapping: Chance to Build Holiday Bankrolls

Horseplayers are coping with the inevitable post-Breeders’ Cup letdown proper about now, however there may be stakes motion throughout North America Nov. 13. Now’s the time to begin build up these vacation procuring bankrolls.

The 2 richest races, the Dream Supreme and the Bessarabian Stakes (G2), are for feminine sprinters. 

The $300,000 Dream Supreme Stakes at Churchill Downs includes yet one more conflict between Bell’s the One  and Sconsin , who finished third and fourth in the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1). The six-furlong dash also includes Frank’s Rockette , wide and well beaten in the 2020 BC Sprint (G1). Club Car , beaten a neck by Bell’s the One in the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes (G2) last out, picks up Joel Rosario, who in 2021 has racked up 48 graded stakes victories and over $30 million in earnings, capped by Knicks Go  ‘s romp in the Longines Breeder’s Cup Classic (G1) last week.

The CA$175,000 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine is headed by Our Secret Agent , third in last year’s renewal, and Lady Speightspeare , who has won all three of her starts on turf and now tries the synthetic stuff after acting up in the gate and being scratched from the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes Presented By Dixiana (G1T).

It is also opening weekend at Aqueduct Racetrack, the place the $150,000 Artie Schiller Stakes shall be contested on rain-softened turf, if certainly it stays on the inside course.

At Laurel Park, the Good Halo Stakes, James F. Lewis III Stakes, and Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes are linked in an all-stakes choose three.

Listed below are our three greatest potential worth performs in chronological order:

Artie Schiller (Aqu, race 9, 3:43 ET): With over an inch of rain anticipated Nov. 12 and extra doubtlessly on the way in which Saturday afternoon, we’re combing the information of the ten turf-meant runners for previous prowess on non-firm going.

Becoming the invoice properly are Flavius  (1) and Tell Your Daddy  (6), who will likely vie for favoritism, and Rinaldi  (3), the probable pacesetter, who led to deep stretch in this race a year ago.

Flavius, a Juddmonte homebred by War Front  , came off the bench to win the restricted Lure Stakes at Saratoga Race Course with a triple-digit Beyer Velocity Determine, then regressed a month later within the WinStar Mint Million Stakes (G3T) at Kentucky Downs Sept. 6. He is been off since then, so it is noteworthy all 4 of his profession wins have come when recent, starting with a win over smooth turf as a first-time starter in Eire and together with a win on yielding turf there as properly.

Rinaldi was deep-fried setting a quick and pressured tempo when final seen within the West Level in opposition to fellow New York-breds at Saratoga, the place he received stakes on good turf the 2 earlier summers.

Inform Your Daddy was a $40,000 declare by Tom Morley in January, and has since banked over $300,000 highlighted by a front-running win within the Bernard Baruch Handicap (G2T) on yielding turf.

Price contemplating at 12-1 on the morning line is Olympic Runner  (2), who was off poorly and finished fastest of all when third in the six-furlong Nearctic Stakes (G2T) on yielding turf last out.

Maple Leaf (WO, race 7, 3:56 ET): Merveilleux  (1) gets some significant class relief after running against grade 1 and grade 2 company through most of the season, and is a three-time winner on Woodbine’s synthetic surface. Throw out her last race in the E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1T) run over a bog.

We’ll try to link up the class dropper with four contenders who may also appreciate the surface switch: Sister Otoole  (4), a half-sister to a synthetic winner; La Lune  (5), whose sire Champs Elysees  finished in the money in consecutive runnings of the Santa Anita Handicap (G1) when it was run on synthetic in 2008-09; Broadway Lady  (7), whose dam was grade 2-placed on synthetic; and Lake Lucerne  (10), who returns to the all-weather for the first time since a maiden win in Great Britain.

Thirty Eight Go Go (Lrl, race 8, 4:09 ET): There is some early speed in this 1 1/16-mile route that features a short run to the first turn, but Sosua  (1) has inside position from the rail and her form has been dirtied up nicely.

After starting her career with three straight wins at three tracks, Sosua wound up dueling through insanely fast fractions in the Love Sign Stakes at Colonial Downs and adopted that up by chasing in a seven-furlong turf dash at Belmont Park in opposition to high-end optionally available claimers. A few current bullet works counsel she could also be powerful up entrance right here if capable of discourage the poorly-drawn Artful Splatter  (9) early.

Josie  (7) and Miss Leslie  (5), third and fourth in the Sept. 18 Twixt Stakes around one turn, are the backups. Josie will be favored as she gets back to her preferred two turns. Miss Leslie goes two turns at Laurel for the first time since winning the Anne Arundel County Stakes from off the pace late last year.