Saturday's Best Bet: Name Changer sits winning trip in Queens County
Saturday's eighth race from Aqueduct is the $125,000 Queens County Stakes for 3-year-olds and up traveling a mile and an eighth on the main track (Post Time - 3:47 p.m. ET).
#1 NAME CHANGER (3-1) should sit a ground-saving tactical trip in a race without much pace. He probably wins this if he runs back to his Monmouth Cup victory at this distance on July 29. Alan Goldberg shows a +ROI with shippers and with this type of layoff runner.
#5 Backsideofthemoon (15-1) puts blinkers back on and might be able to move forward in his second start after a layoff. He has only won two of his last twenty starts but projects a decent stalking trip and has run well multiple times at Aqueduct. He won the Jazil Stakes at this course/distance on Jan. 20.
The Plays:
#1 to win
Exacta Box 1-5
Trifecta 1/ALL/5
December 2018 Best Bet Winners:
Dec. 2 - Kingsport/Silent Poet Exacta ($18.10), Trifecta ($38.10)
Dec. 3 - WONDERFULLY TUNED ($8.00)
Dec. 4 - PAYNES PRAIRIE ($11.40)
Dec. 5 - SIGHTS AND SOUNDS ($11.00)
Dec. 6 - Microrithms/I Am the Danger Exacta ($14.20)
Dec. 9 - Pumpkin Rumble/Melmich Exacta ($12.60), Trifecta ($26.30)
Dec. 10 - RATE FOR ME ($21.00)
Dec. 11 - Freedom Hill/Libertarian Exacta ($31.50)
Dec. 12 - STRAITOUTTAPOPCORN ($5.40), Trifecta ($42.60)
Dec. 15 - Forgotten Hero/Sassy Agnes Exacta ($16.20)
Dec. 16 - BLINDWILLIE MCTELL ($7.50), Exacta ($18.40)
Dec. 21 - TITLE READY ($6.20)