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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Is it Safe? On the first Saturday in May 2016, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY, in the 12th race, 3-year-old colt Nyquist won for the eighth time in as many tries. In the process he definitively defeated the most outstanding collection of sophomore equines gathered anywhere on this spinning blue marble this year. With […]
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JEFF SIEGEL’S WEST COAST BLACK BOOK (For the week of May 5-8) LIAM THE CHARMER (May 8th, 4th race, SA) – Superbly-bred son of Smart Strike from the multiple stakes-winning mare Charm the Giant brought a half-million dollars at auction as a yearling, and while he’s been slow to come around he looks now to […]
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Belmont Park – 8th race – 1-Site Read (4-1) Won his debut last summer at Saratoga going long on the lawn so you know he can fire fresh and his work tab at Payson Park indicates this colt is fit and ready for a major effort in his sophomore debut. Mott is solid with layoff runnrs 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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JEFF SIEGEL’S EAST COAST BLACK BOOK (For the week of May 4-8) CURALINA (May 6th, 6th race, CD) – Was a terrific 3-year-old filly last year but has the makings of an even better 4-year-old based on her 2016 debut in the La Troienne S.-G1 during Derby week. The winner of the Acorn S.-G1 and […]
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If you watched the San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita back on Feb. 15, it turned out that you got a preview of the Kentucky Derby exacta. Nyquist remained undefeated when he won the San Vicente by 1 1/2 lengths, with Exaggerator finishing second. In this column last week, I wrote: “One scenario I think […]
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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 10, 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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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 – 2nd race – 4-Chase Motto (6-1) Daughter of Unbridled’s Song breezed a furlong in an impressive 10 1/5 seconds and then brought $250,000 at auction at the 2015 OBS March 2-year-old in training sale but after a series of setbacks finally makes it to the post more than a year later in this maiden […]
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Churchill Downs – 9th race – 4-Beach Patrol (8-1) Two-for-two since joining the high percentage Phil D’Amato barn and seems capable of extending the streak in the American Turf Stakes. The son of Lemon Drop Kid rallied from mid-pack to break his maiden two runs back with an exciting turn of foot and then dominated tougher foes […]
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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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Race 9- Shakhimat (#8, 5-1) was very impressive in the Transylvania Stakes last time out and could sneak away from this field on the front end. He has never been better and catches a field without much early speed. Airoforce (#1, 4-1) is a tricky read. His two-year-old form is good enough to win this […]
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Churchill Downs – 10th race – 7-Outsider Art (8-1) Was finishing as well as anything when third in the Appalachian Stakes in her first start since October and seems likely to move forward against a similar band in today’s Edgewood Stakes. The daugher of Five Star Day has excellent tactical speed and can produce a second move, […]
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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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