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* GULFSTREAM PARK – FOURTH RACE (Post time: 1:58 ET) The first-timer Firenspice was quite impressive breezing a furlong in 10 1/5 seconds at the OBS June sale – she was green but displayed quick action and a nice stride – before bringing $60,000 through the ring and also looked quite good in a team drill around […]

Jeff Siegel’s “What Your Need to Know” December 22, 2021 GULFSTREAM PARK – FIRST RACE (Post time: 12:30 ET) Let’s go with a price chance in the Wednesday opener, a maiden $35,000 claiming router for juveniles. Food Bank Helper ran better than the line shows in his debut over this synthetic surface last month, racing wide throughout […]

By Jeff Siegel, 1stbet.com Analyst and Handicapper 1 – Not sure if Make It Big, victorious in the Springboard Mile at Remington Park last Friday evening, can be considered a major player quite yet for the spring classics, but there’s nothing wrong with at least being in the conversation this time of the year. Now undefeated in […]

GULFSTREAM PARK – THIRD RACE (Post time: 1:26 ET) This maiden $50,000 optional claiming sprint for older fillies and mares allows Florida-bred runners to enter without being risked for a tag and taking full advantage of that condition is the first-time starter, Evelyn. The Arindel homebred finally makes it to the post very late in her […]

AQUEDUCT – EIGHTH RACE (Post time: 3:37 ET) The New York Stallion Series Stakes (filly division) attracted a field of 11, with recent big figure earner Morning Matcha (8/5) and the all-weather stakes winning Howdyoumakeourmoney (3-1) expected to get much of the play. A victory by either one would not be surprising. However, we are going to look elsewhere […]

OAKLAWN PARK: FIFTH RACE – California invader Bicameral returns to the maiden ranks after earning a piece of valuable Grade-1 black-type when finishing a distant third in the Del Mar Debutante in early September. Her debut effort in July – a solid runner-up performance that produced a good speed figure – also, if repeated, would beat this field, […]

FAIR GROUNDS: EIGHTH RACE – Although the trouble line makes no mention of it, Shishito was jostled and pinched back at the start in her debut in mid-October and actually did well to finish second while almost nine lengths clear of the rest in a highly-rated race two-turn all-weather affair at Presque Isle Downs. She seems certain to […]

THIRD RACE – On pure form Fast as Flight seems logical in this one mile maiden turf event for older fillies and mares, and from any other post she’d be a fairly strong selection, but she continues to have poor luck at the draw. The daughter of Air Force Blue must leave from the far outside (post nine […]

  By Jeff Siegel, 1stbet.com Analyst and Handicapper 1 – We had a sneaky feeling that Messier might be vulnerable in the Los Alamitos Futurity-G2 last Saturday, his 50 cents on the dollar price notwithstanding. After the 2-year-old colt’s three and one-half length victory in the Bob Hope S.-G3 at Del Mar last month, on the surface a […]

FOURTH RACE – Juvenile maiden fillies sprint five furlongs on grass, and this course and distance should suit the first-time starter Bali Bay just fine. She was purchased for $46,000 at the OBS June Sale, where she smoked a furlong in a 10 seconds flat (fastest for the distance during the preview session) and looked terrific doing it. […]

Jeff Siegel’s “What Your Need to Know” Gulfstream Park – December 11, 2021 FOURTH RACE –This maiden special weight sprint for juvenile has at least two decent colts that almost certainly will receive the bulk of the play. Second-time starter Positive Review is listed as the 7/5 morning line favorite after producing a favorable impression when missing in […]

Gulfstream Park – December 10, 2021 SIXTH RACE – This race is a maiden $50,000 middle distance turf event for juvenile fillies that allows Florida-bred runners to compete without being risked for tag. The two main players fall into that category. Cascade Peak tries the lawn for the first time following three runs over synthetic, the last two […]

FIFTH RACE – Let’s take a chance on a price chance in this all-weather two-turn event for older maidens. Defensible, listed at 10-1 on the morning line, was given a run in an abbreviated sprint at Laurel Park last month and should be more serious today. Though he was never 26 lengths behind as the running line […]