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Saturday, Sept.15

Woodbine, Race 9, $250,000 Canadian Stakes Presented by the Japan Racing Association, 5:27 p.m. ET

#7 Bletchley: This filly has visually run her two best races at Woodbine, backed up by a set of 103 Equibase Speed Figures in the Nassau Stakes and Dance Smartly Stakes. In the Nassau, she made a move that had her hung wide coming off the turn and through the stretch. She clearly closed best of all and just missed at a mile – and this race is a mile and an eighth. In the Dance Smartly, Patrick Husbands again took her way too far off a very slow pace. Hardly anyone closed late but Bletchley did make up a lot ground, after navigating her way through traffic. Think she just might benefit from the jockey change to Jerome Lermyte. We’ll hope for a fast pace and a bit of an earlier, ground saving move, if possible.

$10 Budget

$2 win, place and show on #7 Bletchley ($6)

$1 exacta 7,8 over 3,7,8 ($4)

$25 Budget

$2 win, place and show on #7 Bletchley ($6)

$1 exacta box 3,7,8 ($6)

$1 trifecta 7,8 with 3,5,7,8 with 3,5,7,8 ($12)

$50 Budget

$8 win, place and show on #7 Bletchley ($24)

$2 exacta box 3,7,8 ($12)

$1 trifecta 7,8 with 3,5,7,8 with 3,5,7,8 ($12)

Woodbine, Race 11, $300,000 Northern Dancer Stakes, 6:36 p.m. ET

#1 Mekhtaal: This horse ran a huge one at Woodbine back in July in the Nijinsky Stakes. Watch the replay, because it’s worth taking a look at how slow the pace was. Tiz A Slam walked on the lead and no one was getting to him in the late stages, except for Mekhtaal who closed from the clouds and finished a half-length behind. It was his first race in 10 months, and now he’s had another 2 months off. Trainer Graham Motion should have him ready to fire here. Stablemate Utmost is also entered and should ensure an honest pace to run into, along with Tiz A Slam and Markitoff, who can prompt the pace if that’s what their connections want to have them do.

$10 Budget

$5 win on #1 Mekhtaal ($5)

$2 exacta box 1,4 ($4)

$25 Budget 

$5 win and place on #1 Mekhtaal ($10)

$2 exacta box 1,4 ($4)

$2 exacta key 1 with 4,5 ($4)

$1 trifecta box 1,4,5 ($6)

$50 Budget

$10 win, place and show on #1 Mekhtaal ($30)

$2 exacta box 1,4 ($4)

$2 exacta key 1 with 4,5 ($4)

$2 trifecta box 1,4,5 ($12)

YTD BANKROLL: -$1,575.80