Best Bet: With the Moonlight glows in Saratoga Oaks
Sunday’s seventh race from the Spa is the Grade 3, $700,000 Saratoga Oaks for 3-year-old fillies traveling 1 3/16 miles on the turf course. Post time is 4:29 p.m. EDT.
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No. 3 With the Moonlight (5-2) has the same angle going for her as Saturday’s Saratoga Derby (G1) hero Nations Pride. The latter shipped to the states and landed the place in the Belmont Derby (G1) under Frankie Dettori, and he reunited with William Buick and struck at Saratoga for Charles Appleby Aug. 6. Appleby’s Sunday starter landed the place in the Belmont Oaks (G1) under Dettori, and she reconnects with Buick and might get the job done over a few Chad Brown runners.
No. 4 Walkathon (3-1) stalked the pace and captured her last three turf routes, and she defeated subsequent Belmont Oaks winner No. 2 McKulick (8-5) in the Regret (G3). The latter fired in all five starts for Chad Brown and Irad Ortiz Jr. rides her well.
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Wagers:
No. 3 to win
Exacta 3/2-4
Exacta 2-4/3
Recent best-bet winners
Friday - Ready to Purrform ($9.80), trifecta ($469.00)
Saturday - Nations Pride/Annapolis exacta ($29.20)