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Saturday is the most important day of the 12 months in Ohio racing with the operating of the Grade 3 Ohio Derby that includes a giant $500,000 purse headlining a 13-race card at Thistledown. In the meantime, Belmont on the Massive A additionally has a wonderful Saturday program deliberate this weekend and its featured race would be the very playable $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes on the grass. For this weekend’s winners, let’s check out each the Thistledown and Belmont on the Massive A function races this Saturday and go for some good successful tickets. Good luck and have an important weekend on the races.
Belmont on the Massive A, Race 10, $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes, submit time 5:13 p.m. ET
The $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes has drawn a discipline of 9 3-year-old fillies able to run one mile on the turf. The sphere options three Chad Brown trainees all drawn on the surface and the race in all probability will come down to those runners. Scanning down the previous performances on this race, one factor you’ll discover is that a number of of the intense contenders within the discipline have proven early pace in a few of their finest efforts, together with #4 Macanga, #6 Superior Czech, the versatile #2 Curlin’s Lady, and Brown’s personal #8 Chantilly Highway. This could set issues up properly for a late runner, and Brown has simply the horse to do this with #7 Grayosh who ought to be stalking in a primary place. Grayosh beat Chantilly Highway for her maiden win earlier than Chantilly Highway got here again to win her subsequent race. Grayosh, in the meantime, graduated to check stakes firm final time and ran a aggressive fourth regardless of shedding some steam late within the race at 1 18 miles. The one-mile distance ought to be extra to her liking on this extra winnable stakes spot. Curlin’s Lady was moved to the barn of coach Linda Rice final time, and Rice modified her operating fashion by asking her for early pace. Curlin’s Lady responded by setting blazing fractions earlier than tiring late at 1 1/8 miles. She additionally appears higher fitted to this race’s one-mile distance. Lastly, the jury remains to be out on Brown’s #9 Oversubscribed, and it’s means too early to surrender on her regardless of her loss final outing when she was favored however acquired off to a nasty begin after which chased the free lone pace horse, Macanga, who acquired away with homicide up entrance. The tempo ought to be extra contentious within the Wild Applause, and Oversubscribed ought to be in a greater place to capitalize if she will get a greater begin.
The Play: Guess to win on #7 Grayosh (9-2) and play her in exacta and trifecta bins with #2 Curlin’s Lady (10-1) and #9 Oversubscribed (3-1).
Thistledown, Race 13, $500,000 Ohio Derby, submit time 6:30 p.m. ET
The most important race of the 12 months within the Buckeye State occurs Saturday with the 2024 operating of the Grade 3 Ohio Derby. The 1 1/8-mile race drew a 10-horse discipline of 3-year-olds that features some horses which are graduates of the just lately concluded Triple Crown season. The large identify within the race is #8 Catching Freedom, the Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby winner who completed a really respectable fourth within the Kentucky Derby Introduced by Woodford Reserve and third within the Preakness Stakes. He’s a one-dimensional nearer that’s considerably tempo dependent, however there appears to be simply barely sufficient tempo on this race to assist arrange his late run. Coach Brad Cox gained the 2023 Ohio Derby with Tawny Port. Catching Freedom would be the favourite on this 12 months’s Ohio Derby, and this seems like a spot the place you may simply take the free bingo sq. with the chalk and attempt to make your large cash within the race within the exotics. For the exacta, the intriguing doubtlessly up-and-coming prospect within the race is #9 Batten Down for coach Invoice Mott. On the adverse facet, Batten Down wanted 4 outings to interrupt his maiden – however on the plus facet, when he did break his maiden final time he did so in spectacular vogue in a dominating wire-to-wire 8 ¾-length win going 1 ¼ miles at Churchill Downs. He completed geared down within the stretch and nonetheless earned a giant Beyer Pace Determine that makes him tough to disregard.
The Play: Guess #8 Catching Freedom (9-5) to win and field him within the exacta with #9 Batten Down (8-1).
