1/ST BREEDERS’ CUP WAGER GUIDENow available | daily updates | free accessEXTRA INCENTIVESBet $25, Get $5 | BC Bankroll Builder | Keeneland’s Valley View StakesSCHEDULE NOTESBreeders Crown (Harness) | Scioto Downs | first post 6:08 pm ETSPECIAL WAGERSCoast-to-Coast Pick 5 | Gulfstream Races 8-9, Santa Anita Races 2-4-5Sunset Pick 6 | Gulfstream Races 7-8-9, Santa Anita Races 7-8-9TOURNAMENT TIME$100 Keeneland Feeder | details$100 Santa Anita Feeder | detailsNOTABLE CARRYOVERSPick 6 | $27,465 | Keeneland | begins Race 5 | 3:08 pm ETSunset 6 | $3,835 | Gulfstream/Santa Anita | begins GP Race 7 | 3:30 pm ETJackpot Super Hi 5 | $174,796 (CAN) | Woodbine | Race 9 | 4:53 pm ETKEY RACESBelmont | Race 5 | 3:23 pm ET | Perfect Sting Stakes (Div I)Keeneland | Race 8 | 4:44 pm ET | Myrtlewood StakesBelmont | Race 8 | 5:05 pm ET | Perfect Sting (Div II)Keeneland | Race 9 | 5:16 pm ET | Valley View StakesBelmont | Race 9 | 5:38 pm ET | Sands Point StakesScioto Downs (Harness) | Race 7 | 9:03 pm ET | Breeders Crown 2YO Fillies TrotScioto Downs (Harness) | Race 9 | 9:56 pm ET | Breeders Crown 2YO Fillies PaceScioto Downs (Harness) | Race 10 | 10:23 pm ET | Breeders Crown 2YO Colts TrotScioto Downs (Harness) | Race 11 | 10:50 pm ET | Breeders Crown 2YO Colts PaceLONGSHOT RACE ALERT FROM BETMIXKeeneland | Race 3 | 2:04 pm ETLaurel | Race 9 | 4:17 pm ETRemington Park | Race 6 | 9:50 pm ETTRAINERS TO WATCHSaffie Joseph Jr. | Gulfstream Park | 3 of 4 entrants 5-2 or less oddsDID YOU SEE?Yesterday | Keeneland| jockey Jose Ortiz | 3 wins, 1 second from 8 mountsPUT US ON YOUR HANDICAPPING TEAMScott Shapiro: Breeders’ Cup Bankroll Builder Bets for Friday-Saturday-SundayJeremy Plonk: Keeneland Pick 6 Carryover & Daily Longshots to Watch for FridayFrank Carulli: Santa Anita Turf Pick 3 for FridayAl Cimaglia: Breeders Crown at Scioto Downs Spot Plays for FridayFrank Carulli & Brian W. Spencer: best bets today in the Xpressbet member’s section

Top 2-year-olds will be battling at Scioto Downs in Breeders Crown Finals. In Race 7, two-year-old filly trotters will mix it up and in Race 9 freshman pacing fillies are the headliners. In Race 10, male freshman totters are on center stage and in Race 11 the male pacers will be racing for a share of another $700,000 purse. All Finals will have a $700,000 purse. Spot Plays are in Race 9, Race 10, and Race 11. Comments and selections below are based on a fast track.Race 9 (9:56 PM EDT)1-Cleveland Darby (5-1)-Drawing the rail is cause for pause but the Ron Burke trainee is an interesting hometown play. Has won 5 of 6 at ScD but has never drawn the rail. Will rely on usual pilot Chris Page to work a winning trip. Came a close 4th in its last start at Lex and before that rattled off 4 straight wins in Ohio. This gal has banked over $354,000 this season and doesn't need to lead every step of the way to take a picture. The fractions could be sizzling, and Page should be able to stay close enough to the leaders to be in play down the lane. If he pushes the button at the right time Darby can make her State proud. Could offer a square price even with a hometown bias.1-8-7Race 10 (10:23 PM EDT)5-Lifetime Dreamer (5/2)-Lifetime Dreamer set a divisional record in the 2-year-old male Trot Elim of 152.4 and that also equaled a world record. The Ake Svanstedt pupil drew post 5, the choice post, will be steered by Yannick Gingras and is the 5/2 program chalk. Svanstedt seems to always have main players on Breeders Crown Finals weekend. By Svanstedt comments he seems particularly fond of this freshman, saying it keeps getting stronger. Judging by its back-to-back wins the conditioner has his pupil peaking at the right time.5-6-8Race 11 (10:50 PM EDT)4-Starstruck Dreamer (2-1)-The Noel Daley trainee was driven confidently last week by Todd McCarthy and rolled home in .54 flat with a 26.3 last panel. That was a sharp ScD debut and was off more than 5 weeks from its last race start on 9-7 at PcD. My take is TMac will be forwardly placed off the gate and then will be the best down the lane.4-5-1Check me out on X!

Each day during the 17-day Keeneland Fall Meet, I’ll spotlight the double-digit morning line prices that you’ll want to consider for your exotics plays. These are based on my top-3 choices in each race and will only appear if they’re in my mix and of significant odds.Keeneland has a pick 6 carryover of $27,465 on its next-to-last day of the Fall Meet. The pick 6 goes as Races 5-10 and includes a trio of our potential price players.Race 3:#5 Newhope (15-1 ML) – Even sprint debut at Churchill and gets to stretch legs around 2 turns in a flat-mile race that finishes at the sixteenth pole. Trainer Lindsay Schultz hasn’t been as effective in 2026 as 2025, not as busy here at Keeneland, but she did pop a $25 winner last Fall Meet in an eerily similar spot to this race for 2YO route maiden claimers.Race 5:#7 Sound Cause (10-1 ML) – While dirt looks like this one’s third-best surface, everything Steve Asmussen has been doing the past couple of weeks at Keeneland has come together with success. Overcame a brutal post on turf at Churchill last time and just might be in such good form that he’ll replicate it on dirt.Race 9#4 Call On Me (15-1 ML) – Local course winner in April is by elite Kee turf sire Twirling Candy and much better than her last looks on paper. That was a wicked matchup up front with Kentucky Belle, one of the very best 3YO fillies in America; nothing like that in this Valley View Stakes edition. Turf rails out, speed should carry. Rusty Arnold barn got a win here closing week to turn the corner of a disappointing meet. It’s a longshot profile race in the history of the Valley View, so why not another?Race 10#7 Flash of Freedom (20-1 ML) – Don’t let slopy track flounders fool you; both of his Keeneland fast dirt efforts would put him squarely in the mix here. Great price and will use with #5 Sesasi (9-2 ML) in intra-race exotics.

The final weekend of the Breeders’ Cup Bankroll Builder is nearly upon us with the World Championships rapidly approaching at Keeneland. This means three more chances to earn a $5 bonus for wagering $25+ in single-race wagers on a select race October 23, 24, and/or 25. The month-long promotion that gives customers a chance to earn a total of $60 to be deposited into your account before Future Stars Friday (October 30) concludes with a trio of stakes races beginning with the Valley View in Kentucky on Friday. Here are my thoughts on the final three chances to build your Breeders’ Cup Bankroll via this promo at 1/ST BET and Xpressbet.Keeneland, Friday, Race 9: Valley View (G2)6-5-ML favorite brings the strongest resume into this two-turn turf race for 3YO fillies and gets a rider change to Irad Ortiz Jr. after a passive ride from Junior Alvarado in the Winter Memories (G3) three weeks ago. It is easy to make a case the Munnings filly could have done better than second beaten three-quarters of a length at Belmont on October 1, but she is going to get over bet either way. I like #3 Define quite a bit as an alternative. The Irish-bred has two wins and a stalk and fade effort at 50-1 in the Del Mar Oaks (G1) on her record since arriving in the States this summer. I love the fact she has tactical speed from the gate. This should allow jockey Tyler Gaffalione to find a comfortable, ground saving position early and get the jump on the late runners when they turn for home. The Farfellow Farms filly looks like a pretty legitimate racehorse since arriving. Hopefully, that leads to a career best run and her first graded stakes win in what could be her final start of 2026.Play: #3 Define (9-2 ML)Picks: 3-5-7Santa Anita, Saturday, Race 7: Senator Ken MaddyThe Saturday feature at the Great Race Place is a 6.5-furlong event over the beautiful Hillside Turf Course where it appears Hall of Famer Richard Mandella found a great spot for #2 Amorita. The daughter of Liam’s Map set the pace against the boys last time out in the Eddie D (G2) before giving way late to finish third to hard hitting Sorrento Sky. Amorita has only 1 of 9 over this course, but most of those starts were good runs against quality competition. Her tactical speed from the gate is likely to allow Kazushi Kimura to fall into a perfect pocket spot off the likely pacesetters drawn to the outside. The $260k Keeneland September ’23 purchase should be set for her best.Play: #2 Amorita (7-5 ML)Picks: 2-4-8Santa Anita, Sunday, Race 9: Autumn Miss (G3)The Breeders’ Cup Bankroll Builder promotion concludes in style with this stakes group travelling two-turns over the Santa Anita sod. The one-mile Grade 3 for 3YO fillies drew a solid field of 11 where I like #8 Green Carrera. The British-bred won 3 of 7 in the United Kingdom before shipping into Southern California in time for the Del Mar Oaks (G1) in late August. The daughter of Lope De Vega took a good deal of public support off the plane going off at 7-2 and ran well despite a slow break from the gate. Umberto Rispoli was aboard in the first voyage in the States and opts to ride the Leonard Powell trainee back in on the class drop. She should be tough to hold off assuming she does not leave herself with too much to do this time.Play: #8 Green CarreraPicks: 8-2-1

Following the West Virgina Breeders Classics and Oklahoma Classics in recent weeks, the state-bred hits continue this Saturday with a quartet of stakes bonanzas. More than 30 stakes for the homeboys and homegirls are on tap in a single afternoon, all with early post times.Cue up:• Empire Showcase Day at Belmont;• Best of Ohio at Mahoning Valley;• Indiana Champions Day at Horseshoe Indianapolis;• Jim McKay Maryland Million Day from Laurel Park, the granddaddy of them all.Each series presents different challenges, but no matter the state or the season, divisional dominance is a common thread nationally in these regional championships. Many will offer standouts to build around in multi-race bets or to take a chance at knocking off and cashing a longshot.Let’s get to work.//Laurel Park: Jim McKay Maryland Million Day | first post 11:15 am ETSeries Forecast: Saturday’s 12-race menu includes 9 stakes and 3 starter handicaps. Leading active trainers in the Maryland Million series by wins are Jerry Robb (12), Mike Trombetta (11) and Hamilton Smith (10) – all with multiple entrants this year. Jockey Jevian Toledo (21) passed retired legends Edgar Prado (18), Ramon Dominguez (17) and Mario Pino (16) at the top of the rider’s list and looks to pad his series record. For more on the Maryland Million Classic, see our Xpressbet Race of the Week analysis.Heavy Hitters:• Defending champion #2 Barbadian Runner is the big dog now in the Race 11 $150K Classic after dethroning the since-retired Maryland superstar Post Time a year ago.• Paco Lopez will be in town to ride #7 Thundering, winner of Laurel’s open-company JRA Turf Cup and third in Monmouth’s Grade 2 United Nations, in the Race 10 $125K Turf.• #2 Takethemoneyhoney makes a long-awaited March return in the Race 7 $100K Distaff as she’s 2 noses and a head shy of being 10-for-10 lifetime.One to Watch:• Race 6 Turf Sprint | #4 Had to Have Him | Defending champ has excuses this year but comes back freshened for a Salzman barn that’s doing everything right of late. Others here figure to take money and help hold the price.//Horseshoe Indianapolis: Indiana Champions Day | first post 12:00 pm ETSeries Forecast: 13-race card opens with 7 Thoroughbred stakes before pivoting into 6 American Quarter Horse events. Races 3-7 make up an all-stakes pick 5 for the Thoroughbreds. As usual, the big money in the AQHA game is with the 2-year-olds as $326K and $386K futurity finals go in Races 11 and 12. Tomas Medina is the only trainer this season at Horseshoe Indy to win 3 Thoroughbred stakes and has a full hand to play in those races Saturday.Heavy Hitters:• Three-time local stakes winner #10 Spirited Justice tops the Race 6 $150K Lady Fog Horn for 3-year-old fillies.• The Race 7 $150K Unreachable Star for 3-year-olds gives #8 Hard Lucky Player a big chance for his third straight stakes win at the meet and ninth straight exacta finish.• On the AQHA side, #7 Tachas Secret looks for a 16th career win over her home track while rematching with last year’s Race 10 $111K Indiana Championship winner #3 Mr Michel.One to Watch:• Race 6 Lady Fog Horn Handicap | #1 Relentless Chick | Rail speed steps up in class while sharp for respected barn and has been sprinting all along with total route pedigree. Favorites are all harpooned out wide and could give them the slip at 8-1 morning line.//Belmont Park: New York Showcase Day | first post 12:05 pm ETSeries Forecast: The 11-race program includes 10 stakes beginning in Race 2 and shifts back to Belmont Park after a 3-year run at Aqueduct during the reconstruction. Races 6-11 make up an all-stakes pick 6. Jockey Manny Franco’s 5 stakes wins during the new Belmont meet are tops among all riders while 9-23 in the stakes exacta. Chad Brown has entrants in 4 New York Showcase events as he looks to pad his meet-best total of 4 stakes wins.Heavy Hitters:• Chad Brown’s Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf winner #3 Spirit of St Louis tops the playbill in the Race 5 $200K Mohawk at 1-1/8 miles on grass.• Defending $200K Hudson champ #7 The Wine Steward returns to the scene of his sprint score in Race 8 after a brief 2026 campaign for Mike Maker.• #3 Valtellina and #2 Bernietakescharge renew their 1-2 rivalry from last year’s $250K Empire Distaff when they start alongside one another in Race 4.One to Watch:• Race 9 NY Turf Sprint Championship | #2 Waralo | looks absolutely loose on the lead and could be gone if Jose Lezcano can get him to quickly clear the rail horse. Already with a big run over the new course whereas others need to discover it.//Mahoning Valley: Best of Ohio Day | first post 12:15 pm ET | $2,500 Late Pick 5 Hit & Split PromoSeries Forecast: Races 6-10 comprise the stakes from 6 furlongs to 1-1/4 miles on dirt. That sequence includes a Best of Ohio pick 5 wager. Mahoning Valley’s new meet opened Monday. Tim Hamm (24) and Jeff Radosevich (22) lead all Mahoning Valley trainers in stakes wins the past decade and will be going head-to-head in Races 8-9-10.Heavy Hitters:• Dash maven #5 Silent Rule has won 12 of 13 starts and tops the marquee in the Race 8 $100K Best of Ohio Sprint but runs smack-dab into a 7-race win streak by #7 Superwolf. That’s a fantastic showdown.• Heavily favored #5 Fair and Square makes a fourth appearance in the Race 10 $100K Best of Ohio Endurance, winning the 1-1/4 miles classic trip in 2023 and finishing second each of the past 2 years.• Unbeaten Hoover and Cleveland Kindergarten winner #7 Book Value looks to go to 4-for-4 in the Race 7 $100K Best of Ohio Juvenile.One to Watch:• Race 6 John W. Galbreath Stakes | #7 Box Office Hit | Simulcast audience will crush Brendan Walsh’s romping Miss Ohio Stakes winner #4 Panda Listen, who returns home after a Del Mar Debutante foray, but she’s no guarantee to route or bounce back from a disrobing. This is the lone filly who looks like she wants to close and pedigree is route on route as she stretches out for the first time.

There’s something in the air at Santa Anita Park on Friday afternoons. The $3 All-Turf Pick 3 paid $657, $824 and $3,470 the last three weeks. There are shorter fields in this week’s sequence, covering races 3, 5 and 9. But until proven otherwise, there remains plenty of betting value.Santa Anita, Race 3 (4:59 p.m. EST)BURNING RUBBER, engulfed by the pursuing odds-on favorite and a pair of closers at 6F last out, will try to carry his speed farther on the class drop and become the first $100,000 turf earner in the field. But the 8-to-5 favorite offers little value, so use some others in this $30,000/nw3 claimer. SAMMY DAVIS chased eventual stakes-placed Track Tiger through fast fractions and finished second in allowance company in his lone try at today’s 6-1/2F distance. MIO BAMBINO, a steady upper-70 Beyer type, owns the top turf speed figure in the field and returns to the lawn in his second start off the claim. STARLIGHT BUZZIN pulled away from the 2-to-5 favorite and two other next-out winners when he won a main-track sprint here off similar rest in the Spring. He finished third in a 6F turf sprint won by two-time allowance winner Matt At Five (4-9, $238k).Santa Anita Race 5 (6:00 p.m. EST)HEY LIL LADY gathered momentum on the turn, angled widest for the stretch drive and finished full of run for second at 5F. She won at today’s distance in her second start this year and was out-kicked by the winning favorite at one mile two starts ago. She is a deserving favorite. WINIKA shook backstretch pressure and held off the deep closers to win going a route of ground and enhance trainer Jeff Mullins’ torrid 41-percent ‘repeat’ rate.Santa Anita, Race 9 (8:00 p.m. EST)DANZINGWITH MAXINE is 3-for-6 on the Santa Anita lawn. ISSA COURT is 18/3-2-4 and multiple stakes-placed on the grass. Both have six-figure bankrolls. Their six opponents are a combined 3-for-58 on turf. OVETA’S HOBBY makes the ticket as a longshot, having met four follow-up repeaters in nine starts this year, running competitively at this level and class rising off the claim by trainer Ryan Bratcher, who is 9-for-39 in the last 16 months with average winning payouts of 6-to-1.Suggested Pick 6SA 3rd race: 2, 3, 4, 5SA 5th race: 1, 2SA 9th Race: 1, 5, 6Cost for a $3 Ticket: $72

1/ST BREEDERS’ CUP WAGER GUIDENow available | daily updates | free accessEXTRA INCENTIVESBet $100, Get $10 | Charles Town | today’s racesTOURNAMENT TIME$100 Keeneland Feeder | detailsNOTABLE CARRYOVERSSuper Hi 5 | $5,793 | Keeneland | Race 9 | 5:16 pm ETJackpot Super Hi 5 | $160,394 (CAN) | Woodbine | Race 8 | 6:54 pm ETLONGSHOT RACE ALERT FROM BETMIXHorseshoe Indianapolis | Race 3 | 3:11 pm ETBelmont | Race 8 | 5:05 pm ETDelta Downs | Race 4 | 7:04 pm ETTRAINERS TO WATCHAnthony Farrior | Charles Town | 4 of 5 entrants 4-1 or less oddsDID YOU SEE?Yesterday | Keeneland, Remington Park | trainer Steve Asmussen | 5 wins (4 at RP)PUT US ON YOUR HANDICAPPING TEAMJeremy Plonk: Keeneland Daily Longshots to WatchScott Shapiro: Charles Town Bet $100, Get $10 Promo Picks for ThursdayFrank Carulli & Brian W. Spencer: best bets today in the Xpressbet member’s section

Each day during the 17-day Keeneland Fall Meet, I’ll spotlight the double-digit morning line prices that you’ll want to consider for your exotics plays. These are based on my top-3 choices in each race and will only appear if they’re in my mix and of significant odds.Race 4:#3 Sunfyre (10-1 ML) – One of the weaker maiden special weight casts you’ll see at Keeneland, this second-timer figures to improve some for an Ian Wilkes barn that doesn’t get much first out. That he goes to blinkers might be enough on the stretchout to get interesting inside with rail-riding Brian Hernandez.Race 5:#1 Night of Rose (20-1 ML) – Potential rail pace looked good on paper dropping out of the Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon because that assignment ran head-long into star front-running favorite Stellify, who gutted the field. Nobody like that in here. What’s more? With the turf rail out 30 feet, both of Wednesday’s grass races were won wire-to-wire.Race 7:#4 Lobby Rendezvous (12-1 ML) – Trainer Matt Shirer has had back-to-back outstanding Kee Fall Meets with limited starters and he’s got this one in a great spot of her form cycle. She ran huge at Saratoga last summer in her only other second-off-the-layoff bid. She faces all the big power barns here, so the price will be right.Race 8:#8 Arrest Me Red (10-1 ML) – Wesley Ward is the king of Keeneland turf sprints and this one has fired big races fresh off the layoff in the past. The barn has 2 in here and this larger-priced offering is most intriguing to me.