With a new day comes a new and exciting card from Saratoga Racecourse. Beyond the G2 Baruch later in the day, there are several excellent allowance fields that may provide bettors with some value. It’s Sunday cards like these that separate Saratoga from every other track in the country.
Author: Patrick Moquin
Saratoga Analysis: Saturday, July 25, 2020
Saturdays are always the best at Saratoga, and this card doesn’t disappoint. Sistercharlie will make her return in the G2 Ballston Spa while a compact but talented field will face off in the G1 Vanderbilt. There’s a ton of talent and value in all of the races in between, which is exactly what bettors are looking for in August at The Spa.
Saratoga Analysis: Friday, July 24, 2020
This is a Saratoga day for the ladies, as the first seven races on this card are restricted to fillies and mares. It’s the kind of card that improves significantly as the day progresses, and while the first few races may be pretty unappetizing, the graded stakes feature should keep some people around.
Saratoga Analysis: Thursday, July 23, 2020
This is a very good day of racing at Saratoga. There’s nothing too special, but the quality overall is excellent, which is really what sets this track apart from the rest of the country. It’s even more exciting to consider that we’re only getting started.
Saratoga Analysis: Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Wednesday racing begins this week at Saratoga, and a reasonably strong card makes it a very interesting day for handicappers. It’s certainly worth a look for handicappers blessed with time
Saratoga Analysis: Sunday, July 19, 2020
This is a quiet day at Saratoga, but even light days offer very solid races up here. There’s some money to be made here, but it will prove very difficult on a very tricky card.
Saratoga Analysis: Saturday, July 18, 2020
If bettors aren’t playing this Saratoga card today, then they must not like this sport. This card is classy and extremely difficult at certain points, which is the type of Saturday one an expect up here. The fact that this is just one of many such cards this summer is a very exciting thought.
Saratoga Analysis: Friday, July 17, 2020
This is a rare nondescript day at Saratoga, which makes it a good one for rain. It poured for most of the night, but the track’s dried out to a point that only two races will be taken off the turf.
Entering the Graveyard
On an obscure afternoon last August, I was exhausted and couldn’t have been happier. My family had made the annual early morning drive from Long Island to Saratoga Springs, New York. The drive upstate had brought me from a couch in Oceanside to the gleaming white fence surrounding the paddock at Saratoga Racecourse, and I considered it a significant improvement in scenery. As I watched the horses walk around in preparation for the fourth race that day, an old man walked up to me and struck up a conversation.
Saratoga Analysis: Thursday, July 16, 2020
I hope everyone made some money at Belmont. It’s that time of year again for bettors to roll those profits right into some impossible races upstate at Saratoga, the single most competitive track in the country. This is a lovely opening day with the Schuylerville (G3) and Peter Pan (G3) serving as a sort of double feature. No one will be able to make the pilgrimage upstate this year, but racing continues all the same.