Wednesday's Best Bet: Our Country can finish fast in With Anticipation
Wednesday's ninth race from Saratoga Race Course is the Grade 3 With Anticipation Stakes for 2-year-olds traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the inner turf course (Post Time 5:06 p.m. ET).
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#2 OUR COUNTRY (7-2) showed marked improvement in his course/distance maiden win second time out. In that Aug. 3 affair, he stalked slow fractions and rolled to a sharp 5+ length victory as the favorite (first time lasix). He figures to be stalking slow fractions again.
#5 Eagerly (7-2) went from last to 3rd place as the favorite from post 10 in a local maiden turf route July 27. Todd Pletcher is very good with second time starters, and a maiden can definitely win a juvenile stakes race at this time of the year.
#1 Tuggle (5-2) is bred to go this far on turf, and might be set to route after a pair of dirt sprints to begin his career. He looks like the one to catch from the rail.
#7 Andesite (8-1) tracked the pace and kicked way in his Indiana Grand turf debut, and clear place finisher Nano was a next-out winner. Sharp conditioner Brad Cox gives Javier Castellano a leg up, and he should be close to tepid fractions.
#8 Field Pass (9-2) is interesting if he improves again for Mike Maker. He finished nicely for the place in his turf sprint bow at Churchill June 21. In his second career start in a local turf route July 13, he stalked below par fractions and beat next-out winner Decorated Invader.
#3 Fly Fly Away (8-1) stretches out and might impact the pace. He graduated by a nose as the favorite in a local New York-bred turf sprint Aug. 9.
Wagers:
#2 to win
Exacta 2/1-5-7
Exacta 1-5-7/2
Trifecta 2-5/1-2-5/1-2-3-5-7
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)
Aug 23 - City Man/Cleon Jones Exacta ($17.10)
Aug 25 - Front Run the Fed/Bourbon War Exacta ($10.30)
Aug 26 - READY DANCER ($5.00), Exacta ($11.00)