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Gulfstream Park hosts its Pegasus Preview Day this Saturday that includes 5 stakes races, together with three graded stakes which a number of horses will use as preps resulting in subsequent month’s Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Day scheduled for Jan. 25. For this weekend’s winners, let’s focus on two of the extra bettable races on Gulfstream’s Saturday program, the $140,000 Janus Stakes, which is a prep for subsequent month’s Gulfstream Park Turf Dash, and the Grade 3 Suwannee River Stakes, which is a prep for subsequent month’s $500,000 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf Invitational Stakes. If we are able to nail the winners of those two races and maybe money the exotics as properly, we’ll be properly on our strategy to a worthwhile weekend of racing and wagering at Gulfstream Park. Better of luck.
Gulfstream Park, Race 8, $140,000 Janus Stakes, submit time 3:46 p.m. ET
The Janus Stakes has drawn a full and aggressive area of 12 set to sprint 5 furlongs on the turf. For me, the No. 1 handicapping think about Gulfstream brief turf sprints is pace, and also you all the time wish to search for horses that race on or near the tempo when making your bets. Morning-line favourite #10 Arzak lacks early pace, making him a beatable favourite and opening this race up for an upset. Maybe the speediest of the pace horses entered on this race is #5 Sure I Am Free, a contender with a successful historical past briefly turf sprints at Gulfstream with 9 profession wins and 14 profession exacta finishes right here at this journey. He wanted his final race coming off a five-month layoff and nonetheless completed third by a size. Anticipate him to go sooner and additional second off the layoff, making him the decide for a front-running win at frankly ridiculous morning-line odds of 8-1 in his first begin for coach Brad Cox. #7 That’s Proper is one other speedy turf sprinter on this area making the swap to the Brad Cox barn, and Cox is unlikely to ship his two contenders up right into a duel with one another simply in case that’s what you’re apprehensive about. That’s Proper has not completed numerous successful currently however he has been racking-up in-the-money finishes in good efforts within the second half of 2024 together with seconds in $100,000 stakes races at Monmouth Park and Parx Racing. The opposite challenger to incorporate in your exotics is #11 Coppola, one other speedy turf sprinter that’s extra comfy in a pace-pressing function. That can put him in an ideal tempo spot on this race, and he definitely suits on this five-furlong spot after operating fourth in October’s Grade 2 Woodford Stakes Introduced by FanDuel at Keeneland going 5 ½ furlongs. He possible may need received the Woodford if it had been contested on the Janus’s distance of 5 furlongs.
The Play: Guess on #5 Sure I Am Free (8-1) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta bins with #7 That’s Proper (10-1), and #11 Coppola (6-1).
Gulfstream Park, Race 11, $165,000 Suwannee River Stakes, submit time 5:22 p.m. ET
The Grade 3 Suwannee River Stakes has drawn a wide-open 12-horse area of fillies and mares set to race one mile on the turf in a prep for the Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf Invitational. #1 Ocean Membership was a stakes winner on this course again in Could and comes into the Suwannee River off a win in New York’s Grade 3 Noble Damsel Stakes at this one-mile distance. She’s able to one other wire-to-wire win right here, and it’s a plus that she doesn’t even want the lead in an effort to win. When you like Ocean Membership, the plain exacta mate alongside together with her is #11 Breath Away from the barn of turf ace coach Christophe Clement. She simply missed by a head behind Ocean Membership within the Noble Damsel and has raced once more since then, ending second by a neck within the 1 1/16-mile Eternally Collectively Stakes in a race she led on the mile marker. Breath Away has run properly prior to now on the Gulfstream turf with a stakes win and a stakes place on the grass in 2023. One other fascinating contender within the Suwannee River is #8 Saffron Moon, who will entice loads of consideration on the tote board for coach Chad Brown with Tyler Gaffalione aboard. Saffron Moon badly wanted a race final time in her return from an 11-month layoff and was in a position to run a stable closing effort for second at Keeneland in an outing that units her up for a extra absolutely cranked-up strive Saturday in her second race off the layoff.
The Play: Guess #1 Ocean Membership (4-1) to win and play her in exacta and trifecta bins with #8 Saffron Moon (6-1) and #11 Breath Away (5-1).
