Travers’ was a whow, certainly exciting, maybe a little disappointing if you loved a particular horse but no matter who you are, you have to agree it was a thrilling race.  Will Take Charge and Moreno were certainly the right value plays that’s absolutely clear.  I mean why take 3/1 or under on Verrazano, Orb or Palice Malice when Will Take Charge finished within 1 length of PM.   Moreno looked like he had a reasonable chance to be loose speed on a track that had a nice Early Speed Bias.  It wouldn’t be the first time a good horse – made and Easy Lead and won off at BOXCAR PRICES….    But you have to be looking at the Tote Board in Real Time.   Although, I talked with Ralph Siraco that Will Take Charge has the look of a horse that has found the racetrack he likes and was very dangerous…  Here is the most interesting point — I rated Will Take Charge in my TOP – and higher than ORB….  Congrats to the Coach, he is an enigma wrapped up in a riddle, but come to the big races and his horses seem to get a little better — congrats…

Top RAted horses were monster again at Saratoga with a total return of $66.20 at a nominal cost of $28.00 while we have two top rated horses winning in the first 5 races at Del Mar as of this posting.

I PREDICT — we are going to see an amazing Travers tomorrow.   I think we will see that Verrazano is the class of this terrific group, but we must pay attention to the later development of Palace Malice who absolutely ran an amazing race in The Jim Dandy – as did Will Take Charge.  I have downgraded the KD winner, Orb who looked very tired in THE PREAKNESS and THE BELMONT and then took some time to refresh and reset.  We shall see if he’s up to it now.   I for on am firmly in the camp of VERRAZANO – so long as the track is NOT any kind of wet.  FAST TRACK only on this big boy….  But we also have a veritable plethora of other races including the Kings Bishop and The Test STakes and the Ballston Spa.  If you have a need for speed, you need to be involved with these…

Here is one piece of advise, there are plenty of races to choose from so PACE YOURSELF…

TOP RATED horses were again winners at both tracks on Friday with total return of $33.70 against total cost of $30.00….   Data that wins – how good is that!!!!