Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend greatest bets and spot performs from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Test again each week for a few highlighted picks designed that can assist you money a number of bets and make some cash. Noel’s picks have been featured nearly all over the place horse racing picks might be discovered, together with in print within the Each day Racing Kind, The HorsePlayer Journal and American Turf Month-to-month, on-line at DRF.com, Twinspires.com and USRacing.com, from the paddock on-track at Arlington Worldwide Racecourse, and on the air on HRTV, TVG, NYC OTB Further, NYRA’s Speaking Horses, and on broadcast TV on WAVE-3 Louisville, ABC KOLO-8 in Reno, Nevada, and channel 72 Lengthy Island Cablevision.
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Saturday, June 21
This Saturday is the largest day of the 12 months in Ohio racing as Thistledown hosts Ohio Derby day, a day of 5 stakes races together with the Grade 3 $500,000 Ohio Derby. For this weekend’s winners, let’s take a better have a look at the featured race plus the headline occasion on the undercard, the $250,000 Woman Jacqueline Stakes for fillies and mares. As the ultimate two races on the 12-race card, these two races would be the lynchpins for any kind of worthwhile day for handicappers. Let’s hit the exactas, trifectas, and late Each day Double and go dwelling winners Saturday at Thistledown. Get pleasure from!
Thistledown, Race 11, $250,000 Woman Jacqueline Stakes, submit time 5:35 p.m. ET
The $250,000 Woman Jacqueline Stakes drew an eight-horse area of fillies and mares set to compete at 1 1/8 miles. The gap of the race is a giant issue for handicappers as a result of about half the sector can presumably be eradicated from consideration primarily based on the mismatch of these horses on the 1 1/8-mile distance. The race ought to come down to 3 horses, together with two invaders and one native runner. #6 The place’s My Ring involves city with Mike Smith aboard and has been dealing with a number of the world’s greatest fillies, like Thorpedo Anna and Raging Sea, in current losses and now appears to have discovered a extra practical spot to win. She’s already a graded stakes winner final 12 months within the Grade 3 Gazelle Stakes at this distance at Aqueduct and, extra just lately, she confirmed her means once more with a 12 ¼-length Oaklawn rating with a 103 Beyer Velocity Determine. #7 Peignoir is a filly with two profession wins at 1 1/8 miles who received massive two races in the past when she blew away a $135,800 Keeneland allowance area by 7 ¼ lengths. She has run competitively in three current nongraded stakes races just like this race however towards arguably even stronger fields, together with final time when she was fourth behind Candied and a graded stakes-caliber area within the $125,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes on Preakness weekend. Jose Ortiz picks up the mount. Lastly, in case you are in search of the native hope, the practical chance lies with #5 Candlelight Hours, who may actually bump up the worth of your exotics if she will run a giant race Saturday at 12-1 odds. She owns 10 profession wins, 18 exacta finishes, and 24 in-the-money finishes in 25 lifetime outings at Thistledown. She owns two wins, a spot, and a present in 4 races at this distance, together with a 2023 win within the $100,000 Ohio Distaff.
The Play: Guess on #5 Candlelight Hours (12-1) to win and play her in exacta and trifecta bins with #6 The place’s My Ring (2-1) and Peignoir (9-5). Begin the late each day double by taking part in all three of those horses in Race 11 to #4 McAfee in Race 12.
Thistledown, Race 12, $500,000 Ohio Derby, submit time 6:20 p.m. ET
Saturday’s headline horse racing occasion is the Grade 3 Ohio Derby, which has attracted a 10-horse area set to run 1 1/8 miles. The massive title within the race is maybe #6 Intelligent Once more, who exits a ninth-place end within the Preakness the place he was a part of the well-known incident on the prime of the stretch involving eventual winner Journalism. Intelligent Once more had led however was already completed and had began to retreat at that time within the race. He has excessive upside potential, however that Preakness efficiency makes him questionable versus this area which accommodates at the least two velocity challengers in #9 Grasp Controller and #10 Mo Plex, who received’t make his job straightforward on Saturday. Intelligent Once more most likely will maintain on for a share however ought to get softened up sufficient early and get caught by somebody late. That somebody ought to show to be #4 McAfee, who added blinkers for the primary time and eventually started to stay as much as his stakes potential final trip when second by three-quarters of a size within the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes. He’s a half-brother (similar dam [mother], totally different sire [father]) to 2024 Horse of the Yr Thorpedo Anna and eventually appears prepared to come back into his personal. John Velazquez is on the town for the mount. #2 Chunk of Gold doesn’t have any early velocity in any respect and has made a dwelling by selecting up items late and rallying for second in races just like the Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Risen Star Stakes and the Grade 2 Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby. He ought to come working late for a share.
The Play: Guess on #4 McAfee (3-1) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta bins with #2 Chunk of Gold (7-2) and #6 Intelligent Once more (9-5).
