Saturday's Best Bet: Who can steal the Kentucky Jockey Club?

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Saturday's 11th race from Churchill Downs is the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes for 2-year-olds traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the main track (Post Time 5:56 p.m. ET).

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There is a good chance that we will be looking at a wet track under the Twin Spires on Saturday. #5 SILVER PROSPECTOR (8-1) switched to dirt and ran much better in his last pair. Steve Asmussen’s colt might get brave if able to shake loose early.

#3 Tiz the Law (7-5) easily won both starts around one turn in New York including the Champagne Stakes (G1). Barclay Tagg’s fresh colt could be a good one.

#4 South Bend (9-5) is 3-for-3 around one turn, and two of those wins were at Churchill Downs. He showed improved tactical speed in the Street Sense Stakes Oct. 27.

#1 Enforceable (8-1) probably wants more ground for Mark Casse. He improved in his last two dirt routes, and Florent Geroux got to know him a clear show finish in the Breeders’ Futurity.

Wagers:

#5 to win

Exacta 5/3-4

Exacta 3-4/5

Trifecta 3-4-5/3-4-5/1

November 2019 Best Bet Winners

Nov 4 - KARSAVINA ($9.60), Quinella ($15.80)
Nov 5 - MISCHEVIOUS ALEX ($7.00)
Nov 6 - FINAL CUT ($8.00), Trifecta ($47.80)
Nov 7 - HAY FIELD ($7.50), Exacta ($20.80)
Nov 10 - FLY SO PRETTY ($23.20), Exacta ($79.50)
Nov 17 - QUEEN BEE TO YOU ($8.00)
Nov 19 - MESS'N AROUND ($6.00)
Nov 23 - MIDCOURT ($7.60), Quinella ($14.00)
Nov 24 - Fashionably Fast/Oliver Quinella ($5.20)
Nov 26 - SEMI EXCITED ($4.40)

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