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This Saturday, at Saratoga Racecourse,
are two key prep races for the Breeder’s
Cup World Championships: The Grade I Travers
Stakes and the Grade I King’s Bishop
Stakes.
The Grade I Travers Stakes, which goes
off as race 9 on the 12 race card, features
Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense. The
betting line on Street Sense figures to
be around 4/5, if not lower, and the reason
for horse racing bettors to pay attention
to this race has nothing to do with Street
Sense.
It has everything to do with Tiz Wonderful,
who figures to go off at odds of 10 to
1 or higher in the Travers. Tiz Wonderful,
2006’s summer book Kentucky Derby
favorite before an injury halted his progress,
ran last out of six in July’s Jim
Dandy at Saratoga. That was Tiz Wonderful’s
first race in over a year. The colt’s
trainer, Steve Asmussen, acknowledges that
Tiz Wonderful wasn’t ready for the
Jim Dandy and should be much “tighter” for
the Travers.
If Tiz Wonderful brings his A-game, expect
Street Sense to have a tussle on his hands.
Tiz Wonderful’s daddy, Tiznow, is
the only two-time winner of the Breeder’s
Cup Classic and his son is a spitting image
of him. Before his injury, Tiz Wonderful
was undefeated and showed the tough attitude
it takes for a horse to win high profile
races.
From a wagering stand-point, the odds
always dictate which horse you want to
plunk your money down on. Tiz Wonderful
may be the only real wager in the Travers
as the other horses challenging Street
Sense really have no chance against the
Kentucky Derby winner.
The betting line on the Travers points
to only one possible wager - - a win bet
on Tiz Wonderful.
The favorite in the King’s Bishop,
on the other hand, will most likely be
tough-trying, and regally bred Hard Spun
who finished second to Street Sense in
the Kentucky Derby. The reasons to go against
Hard Spun are numerous, the most obvious
of which is that the horse is going from
two turn races to this one turn sprint.
Expect the betting line on Hard Spun to
be somewhat close to what you will get
on Street Sense - - 4 to 5 or lower. That
means that Hard Spun is a bad wager. How
about a wager on EZ Warrior, Teuflesberg,
or King of The Roxy?
All three have legitimate chances to win
the King’s Bishop and all three will
be going off at higher horseracing betting
odds than Hard Spun.
In any case, watch both races as many
of the horses running in both the Travers
and King’s Bishop will run in the
Breeder’s Cup in the fall.
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Posted on 8/21/2007 7:23:14 PM
Horse Racing - Key Prep Races This Saturday at Saratoga
By D.S. Williamson
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