Thursday's Best Bet: Hotsy Totsy can win stateside debut in Riskaverse
Thursday’s ninth race from Saratoga Race Course is the 100,000 Riskaverse Stakes for 3-year-old fillies traveling one mile on the inner turf course (Post Time 5:06 p.m. ET).
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#10 HOTSY TOTSY (3-1) finished in the top three in all four overseas starts, and check out the field sizes (27, 9, 18, 19). Joel Rosario wins races with Christophe Clement, and she shows three local works for this.
#3 Ionic (5-1) is lightly raced and improving for quality trainer Arnaud Delacour. She owns early-pressing versatility.
#6 Catch a Bid (7-5) rallied to win her flat mile turf debut at Belmont by 4+ lengths June 6, and she returned to miss by a neck as the favorite second time out at Saratoga July 14. Varenka beat her last time, and the Chad Brown trainee could easily bounce back under her new rider Irad Ortiz Jr.
#8 New and Improved (6-1) did not get much pace help but rallied to win her course/distance debut anyway for Javier Castellano and Chad Brown.
Wagers:
#10 to win
Exacta 10/3-6-8
Exacta 3-6-8/10
Trifecta 3-10/3-6-8-10/3-6-8-10
August 2019 Best Bet Winners
Aug 7 - Mr. Buff/Dynamax Prime Exacta ($8.30)
Aug 14 - EQUAL MEASURE ($9.40)
Aug 16 - SIBERIAN IRIS ($16.20)
Aug 17 - Dunbar Road/Point of Honor Exacta ($7.90)
Aug 18 - PRINCE EARL ($21.60), Trifecta ($272.10)
Aug 19 - Hotshot Anna/Spring in the Wind Exacta ($12.40)