Weekend Winners Club

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Saturday, July 25.  Woodbine race track is hosting a big day for 3yo’s racing in Canada today, including the Grade 3 Marine Stakes for three year olds and the corresponding Selene, also G3, for 3yo fillies.  10 races on the card with about 100 horses running after scratches makes for a competitive race day.

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The Marine G3 at about 2PM ET has a short but serious field of 3yo’s, oddly the majority of which are geldings, going 8.5f.  The favorite Shirl’s Speight has 1 race under his belt, a win at 7f on turf, so this will be his first time at a mile and first on polytrack, not exactly a lock for trainer Roger Attfield.  Grab today’s Grid here to follow along.

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The top Power horse according to the Grid is Untitled at 9-2 ML, who ran 2^nd in the Gotham G3 earlier this year for Mark Casse and registered the top PF of 95 after that.  He was solid in his first polytrack race last out finishing 2^nd in the Woodstock stakes at 6f, a few lengths ahead of gelding Lookinatamiracle who is 6-1 ML. 

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Lucky Curlin 3-1 will also take a lot of action after finally breaking maiden last out at a Woodbine 7f OCM for Mark Casse, and has top LP in the Grid.  So the 3 colts are the top choices.  But we need to mention Dotted Line at 8-1 who has won multiple stakes at Woodbine, and Glorious Tribute, 3^rd in the Queenston Stakes at WO last out, to give you some good long shots in the exotics.

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The Selene G3 has a pair of deserving virtual co-favorited fillies.  Owlette has the top PF registered last out in one of her three 6f stakes wins here at Woodbine for Wesley Ward, sandwiching a 2^nd place effort at 8.5f.  Merveilleux looked just like her name last out winning an allowance after 2 runner-up efforts in 8.5f stakes here for Kevin Attard. 

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My 3^rd choice is Livin In The Six, who I refused to believe will go off anywhere near 15-1 after an good performance breaking maiden last out at 6f on turf, following her initial maiden voyage in which she got boxed up in the stretch.  Michael Depaulo is not a household name and nor is sire Society’s Chairman, but that’s what long shots are about.

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Unfortunately these 3 great fillies will have to contend with a triplet of Mark Casse fillies, at least one of which will hit the board.  The most likely is probably 3^rd ML choice American Tap who has finished ITM in her past 4 races after a poor initial maiden trip. 

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Here are the expert picks for the full race card.

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R1 1:00ET 6.5f T OClm 15000 3 UP FM:  4 8 3 2 7                LSS 3 2

R2 1:31ET 8.5f A Clm 7500 3 UP:  6 1 8 4 3             LSS 4

R3 2:03ET 8.5f A Marine-G3 3 YO:  7 6 1 4 2           LSS 2

R4 2:36ET 8f T Md 10000 3 UP FM:  6 7 13 3 4      LSS 3 4

R5 3:14ET 5f A Moc 40000 2 YO F:  3 1 2 10 7      LSS 10    * Key 3 1, wheel and deal on this one, 9 1^st timers.

R6 3:47ET 8f T MSW 3 UP FM 123200:  3 7 11 1 9 5 6         LSS 3 5 6

R7 4:20ET 5f A Moc 25000 3 UP FM:  7 3 1 6 8     LSS 3 8

R8 4:53ET 8.5f A Selene-G3 3 YO F:  1 7 3 5 6      LSS 3 6

R9 5:26ET 7f T Alw 101200n1x 3 UP FM:  8 4 1 13 12 7 5   LSS 12 5

R10 5:58ET 6.5f A OClm 40000 3 UP:  12 5 10 7 13 1 2       LSS 10 7 13 2

As always, you can get the Grid for every major North American track and race day here.

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