Saratoga Picks July 26th, 2017

Saratoga Picks

Day 5 7/26/17

Race 2

10 Indian Gem 10 month layoff moving to turf in a new barn was forwardly placed in debut and shouldn’t incur to much speed up against. 8 Gare de Lyon entering 3rd career finished strong lto . 3 Ciao bella mia 2nd form route to sprint helps here will not incur the traffic problems which has occurred in each of the other races.

Race 3

7 Professor Snape ran well with starts on dirt also forwardly placed at level lto at Belmont top two with Ortiz aboard. 3 Bunyaan dropping in class 2nd form on train cycle will stalk the pace here in lowest level run. 4 Hey Listen up forwardly placed has run well vs touch has trained well.

Race 4

6 TR Crew has Joe Bravo aboard after win has run well on the front end can be on lead or stalk the pace. 2 Emancipation 3rd career race has finished well on both races and will be charging late. 3 Blame us all has had escalating beyers and will stalk the pace. This is a very open race and will be tough to lock it down.

Race 5

5 Divine Cause 3rd form has raced well on turf in past won lto @ 7 F may regress off an 82 speed figure. 7 A Dixie Twister has been run as a closer into mike maker barn with speed in here could do well has had issues going wide Jose Ortiz picking up the mount here.

4 Deltalina-Pace shorteing up which should help as there has been an issue in closing out the race.

Race 6

3 Climb the Ladder has trained well since debut. 1 Trust for Skylar has also trained well.

Race 7

3 Vintage Matters has shown the ability to handle the distance has hit the board every start in the state bred rank.2 Clutch Cargo best figure lto at 1 1/8. 4 Sandy Strikes back to state bred picks up top jock in Paco Lopez.

Race 8

8 Gehrig 3rd form trained well since came over from Belmont. Will stalk the pace which there is not a lot of Ortiz back aboard after being necked lto. 3 Elenzee shortening up prefers to be close to the lead with the shorter track should fit nicely here. 10 Animal Posse looking to regain last years form has run well.

Race 9

3 Paulassilverlinging has won back to back G1 by a neck in Kentucky. Brown has her on the same schedule as last year which pointed paula to the Balrina in August. Last year placed by a neck here and ran to the Balrina. Last year also came in off two straight wins but last year was G3’s. 2 Bythemoon likes to be forwardly placed has won 2 consecutive G3’s at Belmont. Has been a 7F specialist 2 bullets this month should have a prime effort today and has hit the board on every start at the SPA. 5 Finleys Lucky Charm is a multiple G3 winner is a speed ball who has primarily run exclusively at Churchill has to push the pace if she wants to go 6/6 at the distance.

Race 10

6 She Remembered 3rd form placed at level dist lto. 1 Reconsider it placed at level lto.

9 Saturday Night Fling 2nd form 2nd on grass showed lto on grass debut can close down the fiel to end the day.