Saturday's Best Bet: Admission Office just in time in Mac Diarmida

Saturday's 4th race from Gulfstream Park is the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida for 4-year-olds and up traveling a mile and three-eighths on the turf course (Post Time 12:55 p.m. ET).

#8 ADMISSION OFFICE (5-1) landed the place in this event last year and has been a quality graded turf route performer for quite some time, He was outrun in his Tropical Turf (G3) return, and showed a nice forward move in a flying show finish in the Tampa Bay Stakes (G3) Feb. 6. He can move forward from off the pace in his third start after a layoff.

#4 Moon Over Miami (6-1) is a returning four-year-old for the productive Junior Alvarado and Bill Mott team. He won the Dueling Grounds Derby last year and could end up liking these longer distances. He competed in a couple of graded turf routes last year, and those New York sophomore turf runners were a salty bunch in 2020.

#1 Temple (3-1) figures to save ground stalking the pace and shortening up a furlong helps his chances. He landed the place in his last three turf routes and he fired trifecta shots in all four local turf attempts (4 wins).

#3 Tide of the Sea (5-2) got out there and controlled the pace in the local W. L. McKnight (G3) at a mile and a half Jan. 23, and he turned away his stablemate Temple that day. He might face pace pressure from #6 Phantom Currency (6-1). The latter exits a local nine furlong theft at 8-1 odds, and he is Admission Office’s stablemate.

Wagers:

#8 to win

Exacta 4-8/1-4-8

Trifecta 8/ALL/1

Recent Best Bet Winners

Feb. 2 - PADDOCK PICK ($4.80), Trifecta ($149.40)
Feb. 5 - Earls Rock/Beer Can Man Exacta ($23.40)
Feb. 6 - HIT THE ROAD ($8.20), Exacta ($24.60), Trifecta ($111.00)
Feb. 9 - BIG BARREL ($4.60), Quinella ($16.00)
Feb. 10 - QUEEN OF THE GREEN ($10.60), Exacta ($51.00)
Feb. 16 - ELLE Z ($6.60), Exacta ($13.80)
Feb. 19 - I'm Leaving You/Hoop Dream Exacta ($21.00)
Feb. 21 - SHE'SA PERFECTLADY ($5.80)
Feb. 23 - Flying to the Line/Gold Included/Bonnet Trifecta ($112.00)
Feb. 25 - SOUTH AFRICA ($7.50)

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