Welcome to the 2020 Stay Lucky season with presenting sponsor Breeders' Cup! We have several exciting new prizes plus a smoother, faster app for the new season!

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Stay Lucky offers participants the opportunity to win great prizes by stringing together winners in Thoroughbred races. Unbroken streaks of five, seven, nine, 14, 17 and 20 reward the players with a prize or choice of prizes. Terms and conditions apply.

The object is simple: pick winners from North American graded stakes races that draw at least seven entrants. Races will be scored in real time but streaks will be updated only once daily to make sure they are scored in the correct order.

Pick as many races each weekend as you like, but be sure to play at least one race every weekend or your streak will be reset.

This weekend’s Stay Lucky slate is headlined by Saturday's 140^th Alabama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga. The Alabama will be shown on both NBC during a 5-6 p.m. broadcast as part of their Road to the Breeders’ Cup series, and also on “Saratoga Live” on FS1. "Saratoga Live" will also air on  FS1 and FS2 during its usual Wednesday through Sunday schedule. For a TV/radio schedule, click here.

Saturday, Aug. 15

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Bold Venture Stakes (4:14 p.m. ET): The 8-year-old veteran Pink Lloyd (#4) has been winning races at Woodbine for about as long as the instrumental break in “Echoes,” but oddly enough, two of his six career losses in 30 starts have come in the last two editions of this race as he finished fifth in 2018 and fourth last year (he was declared a non-starter last year after stewards deemed he broke out of the gate early). There’s not a lot of speed lined up in this Saturday’s renewal, and that should benefit his pace-pressing style, plus he’s two-for-two this year. White Flag (#8) stands a chance but has never run on a synthetic surface.

King Edward Stakes (5:22 p.m. ET): The top two finishers from the July 11 Connaught Cup Stakes return here in Silent Poet (#5) and Admiralty Pier (#7) and all-weather specialist Mr. Ritz (#3) is back for another try in this one-mile turf event after finishing fifth last year and then winning three of five stakes races since on synthetic. There are also three horses shipping to Woodbine from the U.S. that all could win, including Delaware (#9), who is making his third start in North America for turf maestro Chad Brown after racing competitively in France where he won two stakes. I’ll play Delaware if the odds are 3-1 or above but am passing on this race for Stay Lucky.

Alabama Stakes (5:43 p.m. ET): Swiss Skydiver (#5) towers over this field in terms of accomplishments, having won three graded stakes this year and most recently finishing second in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes against males. But I have big questions about her pedigree and whether it will hinder her as she tries the classic mile and a quarter Alabama distance. Spice Is Nice (#2) may finally be on the right track to justify her $1 million-plus sales price as a yearling after winning a Belmont Park allowance, and Crystal Ball (#3) and Harvey’s Lil Goil (#6) are also threats. I would not be surprised to see an upset here.

Sunday, Aug. 16

Seaway Stakes (4:55 p.m. ET): The top three finishers from the Trillum Stakes on July 18 at Woodbine all return here, cutting back from a mile and a sixteenth to seven furlongs. Trillium winner Souper Escape (#2) led all the way in that race and she’s a threat to do it again in the Seaway. This filly is 2-for-2 on Woodbine’s main track and posted a bullet workout on Aug. 8. If my current Stay Lucky streak ends on Saturday, I’ll try to start another one with her Sunday.

Patrick’s Top Stay Lucky Play (2 winners from 2 top plays in 2020):

1. Pink Lloyd (Bold Venture Stakes)

2. Souper Escape (Trillium Stakes)