For the fourth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call “Big Race Showdown.”
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Best Bets: Searching for a Score at Keeneland and Del Mar
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
Betting the Connaught Cup Stakes on a Budget
The $175,000, Grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes is a seven-eighths of a mile turf race at Woodbine that has produced some nice upsets in recent years with three of the last five winners paying $16.70 or more for a $2 win bet and an average payout of more than $19. Only one favorite has won the Connaught Cup in that five-year stretch and that was tepid 3.10-1 favorite Tower of Texas in 2017.
Betting Against Swiss Skydiver in the Blue Grass Stakes
Racing at Keeneland during the summer? In a normal year such an occurrence would be unprecedented, but 2020 has been far from a normal year. Prompted by COVID-19, the inaugural summer meet at Lexington’s historic racetrack will feature 10 graded stakes races over the course of three days, led by the $600,000 Grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday.
