Jeff Siegel’s Santa Anita analysis offers race-by-race wagering strategies geared to rolling exotic players. The basic strategy is to isolate those horses that should be included in rolling daily doubles, pick-3s, pick-4s, pick-5s, and pick-6. It is recommended that Jeff’s selections and analysis be used to augment the reader’s own personal handicapping, though excellent results can be […]
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Pimlico – 11th race – American Freedom (5/2) We’re going to give this colt another chance in the Sir Barton Stakes despite his dismal failure as the 7/5 favorite in the Pay Day Mile two weeks ago on Derby Day. He’ll handle any kind of off track, has the pedigree to improve over a distance of […]
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Pimlico – 10th race – 5-Miss Katie Mae (5-1) Was given a little bit of a run in her U.S. debut and performed better than she had a right to when winding up a closing fourth, beaten a bit more than two lengths, while rallying into the teeth of a slow pace at Keeneland last month. […]
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Jeff Siegel’s Santa Anita analysis offers race-by-race wagering strategies geared to rolling exotic players. The basic strategy is to isolate those horses that should be included in rolling daily doubles, pick-3s, pick-4s, pick-5s, and pick-6. It is recommended that Jeff’s selections and analysis be used to augment the reader’s own personal handicapping, though excellent results can be […]
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Jeff Siegel’s Santa Anita analysis offers race-by-race wagering strategies geared to rolling exotic players. The basic strategy is to isolate those horses that should be included in rolling daily doubles, pick-3s, pick-4s, pick-5s, and pick-6. It is recommended that Jeff’s selections and analysis be used to augment the reader’s own personal handicapping, though excellent results can be […]
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Belmont Park – 7th race – 10-Uncle Sigh (7/2) Former Triple Crown participant may have found a home on turf, judging by his excellent performance last month at Aqueduct in a second-level state-bred allowance race. Lagged off the slow pace, responded when set down and finished strongly to just miss in a photo while flashing some […]
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Nyquist dominated Kentucky Derby foes two weeks ago with the kind of speed and determination top class runners often display. It was his eighth win in as many starts and he became just the second 3-year-old, along with Street Sense, to parlay a Breeders’ Cup Juvenile victory into a Kentucky Derby triumph. He will be […]
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JEFF SIEGEL’S WEST COAST BLACK BOOK (For the week of May 12-15) KRISTO (May 14th, 9th race, SA) – Had to be rusty in his first start in 13 months but given the strength of the race this son of Distorted Humor ran much better than what was expected in his fourth place effort in what […]
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JEFF SIEGEL’S EAST COAST BLACK BOOK (For the week of May 11-15) BODE’S DREAM (May 11th, 2nd race, GP) – The first starter from the first crop of Bodemeister, this $300,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase left her out-classed rivals in the dust with an impressive display of speed and precocity in this four and one-half furlong […]
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These rankings reflect the author’s evaluation of past, present, and projected form expressed in a theoretical true handicap (high weight 126 lbs.) at one mile and three-sixteenths at Pimlico on the third Saturday in May, 2016. (Updated May 17, 2016) 1 – NYQUIST (D. O’Neill) 126 Uncle Mo-Seeking Gabrielle, by Forestry, Latest workout: none since raced Last start: May 7, […]
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Monmouth Park – 5th race – 7-My Country (5/2) Finally makes it to the races at age four, more than two years after she brought $120,000 at the OBS March Sales, where she breezed a furlong in a very impressive 10 seconds flat, displaying superior speed. Has a series of sharp drills to her credit leading up […]
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Jeff Siegel’s Santa Anita analysis offers race-by-race wagering strategies geared to rolling exotic players. The basic strategy is to isolate those horses that should be included in rolling daily doubles, pick-3s, pick-4s, pick-5s, and pick-6. It is recommended that Jeff’s selections and analysis be used to augment the reader’s own personal handicapping, though excellent results can be […]
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Belmont Park – 5th race – 1-Royal Ekati (4-1) $180,000 Saratoga yearly purchase finally makes it to the post in this maiden special weight sprint for New York breds and has done everything right in the morning for trainer Barclay Tagg, whose first-timers often run better than they work. The rail is of some concern and […]
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Jeff Siegel’s Santa Anita analysis offers race-by-race wagering strategies geared to rolling exotic players. The basic strategy is to isolate those horses that should be included in rolling daily doubles, pick-3s, pick-4s, pick-5s, and pick-6. It is recommended that Jeff’s selections and analysis be used to augment the reader’s own personal handicapping, though excellent results can be […]
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Pimlico – 6th race – 5-Driving Me Crazy (2-1) Was favored in his debut at Laurel last month but had to settle for second after a nightmarish trip. Broke a tad slowly and was in heavy traffic down the backstretch, advanced quickly on the turn, was forced to steady in tight quarters approaching the quarter pole to […]
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