Weekend Winners Club

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Saturday, October 5, 2019. Keeneland continues its huge opening fall meet weekend with 4 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races today, including the Breeders’ Futurity G1, First Lady G1, Shadwell Turf Mile G1, and Thoroughbred Club of America G2. The Woodford G2 is also on the card but is not a BCC race. It’s a great race day to watch horses try to secure the BC berths with 4 weeks to go.
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This adds to the 2 BCC races on Friday: the Darley Alcibiades G1 and Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix G2, and 3 more on Sunday, including the Dixiana Bourbon G3, Indian Summer, and Juddmonte Spinster G1. Now you see why we call it a huge opening weekend, eclipsing Belmont’s impressive 5 BCC races which include the Champagne G1 and Joe Hirsch Turf Classic G1 today.
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In addition to the 5 graded stakes races today, Keeneland also has an assortment of 3 maiden special weight and an optional claimer for 2yo’s, making it a big juvenile day as well. So there’s plenty of room for the 2yo’s who don’t quite fit into the G1 class right now. In all, 56 juveniles, male and female, are scheduled to race today after the early scratches.
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Grab the Grid here free to follow along!
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The 10 horse Futurity field looks very competitive, all of them being MSW winners and 1 stakes winner By Your Side, who won the Sanford G3. It looks like some of them may have preferred to run in the Champagne G1 today but that field is led by Saratoga Special G2 winner Green Light Go and Tiz the Law, who has the highest Grid PF of any in both fields today due to his debut win.
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You can look at what the Grid has to say about it for yourself, but 1 thing it will tell you is the Futurity field has a lot of speed. However, from history, we know that much of the speed is usually hard rated early in an attempt to conserve energy in their first mile+ race. So it could still go either way, depending on how they rate.
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But it’s worth mentioning Maxfield, an S0 at 12-1 ML is the sole dead closer so far, and has the highest LP rating, based on his only race, a MSW win at a mile at Churchill. That was won after coming from way back the way a closer always does. The others worth mentioning are the chalk and the stakes winner who’s at 6-1, so Maxfield may be the only valid long shot in this one. But you never know with juvies.
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So there you go, racing starts at 1PM ET so get that Grid and start your processes.
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