She's a Handicapper now..and I'm saying "Champagne, Anyone?"

She's a Handicapper now..and I'm saying "Champagne, Anyone?"

Saturday, July 3, 2021

BELMONT PICKS -- 7/3/21

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Happy 4th of July weekend to you ! 

We'll go to New York for the 4th...two good stakes races up there today and a much better card than they are running at Ellis Park this weekend, so we'll give it a go with the New York jockey colony and see what happens. Two on the turf, two on the dirt -- and a wide open optional claiming race and competitive claiming rack to go with the Perfect Sting and Suburban Stakes affairs. 


RACE 7 -- CLAIMING -- $20K -- 6-1/2 FURLONGS 


1 -- CAUSE OF ACTION (scratched)

8 -- STORM ADVISORY

3 -- STROLLING

5 -- ZAEVION   (scratched)

(IF SCRATCHES OCCUR/OTHER:  4-ALCOOLS)


RACE 8 -- OPTIONAL CLAIMING -- $80K -- 1-1/16TH MILE (TURF) 


7 -- SPACE LAUNCH  (scratched) 

3 -- WOLFE'S DYNAHOST

9 -- RESSTORED ORDER

2 -- MIRA MISSION  (scratched) 

(iF SCRATCHES OCCUR:  4 -- SHAWDYSHAWDYSHAWDY --  IF MOVED TO DIRT:  1A GHAZAALY) 


RACE 9 -- PERFECT STING STAKES -- $100K -- 1 MILE (TURF) 


9 -- VIADERA (scratched)

1 -- HONEY CAKE (scratched) 

3 -- PRINCESS GRACE (scratched)

7 -- MADITA (scratched) 

(IF SCRATCHES OCCUR: 4 -- PIEDI BIANCHI  - IF MOVED TO DIRT: 8 -- VELVET CRUSH, 5 -- TRUTH HURTS,  2 -- HOGANS HOLIDAY


RACE 10 -- SUBURBAN STAKES -- GII -- $400K -- 1-1/4TH MILE


4 -- MYSTIC GUIDE

6 -- HAPPY SAVER

5 -- MAX PLAYER

2 -- INFORMATIVE 

(IF SCRATCHES OCCUR:  1 -- MORETTI) 


The Pick 4 looks hittable today, but you have to wonder what kind of price you can get. VIADERA looks pretty invincible in Race 9 and Race 10 looks like a two-horse race between MYSTIC GUIDE and HAPPY SAVER.  In the Suburban, I do have to wonder if MAX PLAYER is totally washed up or not -- he ran the KY Derby and Preakness, and was a nice winner in the Withers, .so I might include him.

Good luck today! 


paulie


  


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