Pick for Saturday 13, 2024


Apple Blossom Handicap
1 1/16 Miles | Fillies and Mares | 4 Year Olds And Up | G1 STAKES | PURSE: $1,250,000


Track: Oaklawn Park
Race: 11
Horse: Wet Paint (ML 3-1)


Field (in post position order):

1. Free Like a Girl (ML 20-1)
2. Taxed (ML 5-1)
3. Wet Paint (ML 3-1)
4. Adare Manor (ML 9-5)
5. Flying Connection (ML 20-1)
6. Misty Veil (ML 12-1)
7. Honor D Lady (ML 7-2)
8. Bellamore (ML 12-1)
9. Shotgun Hottie (ML 12-1)



Bet Wet Paint (ML 3-1) to win and place.

Yes, that is right: WIN/PLACE using triple down betting strategy and you should be going home as a winner.

Put some considerable amount of money on Wet Paint to win and place to make it worthwhile and justified going to the racetrack.

Wet Paint's final odd will most likely be right around 2-1 second choice.

Take this easy money 3/1 (or at whatever the price is -- 2/1 is my guess) and leave the racetrack as a winner.

There you have it: Easy money!


****** Playing For Fun and Making Some Money in The Process ******

The following bonus play is for fun only and I don't have a lot of confidence in this play.

Nonetheless, it is worth it.

You know betting on favorites (as I do all the time) is very boring.

To get some excitement, occasionally, you have to bet some longshots.

Well, not quite longshot on top but a most likely 18-1 longshot underneath an exacta play with the likely 2-1 second choice on top.


BONUS: Play exacta (straight): Wet Paint (ML 3-1) over Bellamore (ML 12-1).

That is it!