America’s Best Racing and handicapper (and avid gambler) Monique Vág team up to provide horseplayers with their best bets of the weekend. Vág will identify her top picks as well as at least one longshot play of the weekend, a nice opportunity to swing for the fences on a win bet or to take a shot with a show bet. She also will occasionally look for strong exacta plays for the weekend or try to spot a nice opportunity for other wagers. This Weekend’s Bets
Enable Could Make One More Start On British Champions Day
After a disappointing sixth over soggy ground in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Juddmonte's Enable could make one more start before closing out her star-studded career. According to the Racing Post, the 6-year-old daughter of Nathaniel is under consideration for the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes over 1 1/2 miles on Oct. 17 at Ascot.
Trainer John Gosden told racingpost.com: “Enable did one canter on Warren Hill this morning and seems fine after her trip to Paris. Whether she runs again or not is up to her owner Prince Khalid Abdullah and I think a decision about her future will be made after the weekend.”
Enable won two editions of the Arc, in 2017 and 2018, then finished second in 2019. She won the 2018 Breeders' Cup Turf, and three editions of the Group 1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes in 2017, 2019, and 2020. Overall, the mare has earned a record of 15 wins from 19 starts.
Read more at the Racing Post.
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Restricted Access to BBAG October Mixed Sale
BBAG’s October Mixed Sale, set for Oct. 16-17, is restricted to 500 people. Both Ireland and the UK have been placed on Germany’s COVID-19 High Risk list, as cases of the coronavirus have increased in recent times. In order to attend the sale, a negative COVID-19 test must be taken within 48 hours before arriving in Germany. Certification of the negative COVID-19 test is required for admittance to the sales grounds. The sale begins on Friday at 10 a.m. and Saturday at 5 p.m.
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Friday’s Insights: Dreaming of Julia Filly Gets Going at Belmont
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The product of two of Stonestreet Farm’s best, top and bottom, MALATHAAT (Curlin) gets her career underway for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher. The Mar. 7 foal, a $1.05 million acquisition at Keeneland September last fall, is the first to race out of Dreaming of Julia (A.P. Indy), one of two ‘TDN Rising Stars’ produced by MGISW Dream Rush (Wild Rush), who was acquired by Stonestreet for $3.3 million at the 2007 Fasig-Tipton November sale. Pletcher conditioned Dreaming of Julia to a narrow victory in the 2012 GI Frizette S. en route to a runner-up effort to Beholder (Henny Hughes) in that year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Malathaat completed her worktab with a bullet half-mile in :49 1/5 (1/10) over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga Oct. 3.
Sheikh Hamdan’s brother Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin is represented by Caramel Swirl (Union Rags), who has trained with purpose for Bill Mott. The filly’s unraced dam Caramel Snap (Smart Strike) is a daughter of GSW Fast Cookie (Deputy Minister), whose son MGISW Frosted (Tapit) is off the a promising start with his first crop of runners this season. Fast Cookie, a half-sister to champion Midshipman (Unbridled’s Song), is also responsible for GSW Indulgent (Bernardini). Caramel Swirl breezed four furlongs in :48 2/5 (3/47) over the Oklahoma track Oct. 2. TJCIS PPs
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