Make Horse Racing Bets on These Del Mar Races on Saturday

Del Mar will provide two terrific stakes races on which horseplayers can make horse racing bets this Saturday, Sept. 4th.

“Where the Turf Meets the Surf” will soon be packing it up and closing it’s doors for 2010, but there are a few more great days of racing left.

One of those days is this Saturday where Del Mar will showcase three-year-olds and up in the Windy Sands Handicap before showcasing two-year-old fillies in the Grade I Darley Debutante Stakes.

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Del Mar Stakes Races – September 4th

Where: Del Mar, CA

When: September 4th, 2010

TV: TVG

Race 2

Time: 5:30 pm EST

Windy Sands Handicap

Purse $75,000. (Plus $22,500 – CBOIF – California Bred Owner Fund). For Three-Year-Olds And Upward.

1 mile over all-weather Polytrack

A terrific field will line-up for this seemingly unimportant $75,000 stakes race. One of those that will line-up that looks like a serious player in this is Low Gear Power who might actually get lost in the betting with horses like Red Door Drive, Unusual Suspect and Informed also entering the starting gate.

Low Gear Power is a closer and doesn’t necessarily fit the profile of a winner over Del Mar’s Polytrack since the Poly has been favoring speed this meet, but Power has 3 victories and 1 second out of 4 lifetime races over the track.

That’s good enough for me. Low Gear Power should be a part of all of your horse racing bets for Race 2 at Del Mar on Saturday. Jockey Mike Smith should get a fantastic stalking trip aboard Aggie Engineer right behind likely front-runner Tropic Storm in this. Aggie Engineer never seems to quite get there even though he always puts in a great effort and always looks capable of winning at the top of the stretch.

Maybe, Mikey Smith, who climbs aboard for the first time, can get him across the finish line first this time. If nobody challenges Tropic Storm early, then the son of Stormy Atlantic could take this field gate-to-wire. The Craig Dollase trainee is very, very fast and outside of Red Door Drive and Aggie Engineer, there isn’t a whole lot of speed in this race.

1. Low Gear Power
2. Aggie Engineer
3. Tropic Storm

Race 8

Time: 8:30 pm EST

Darley Debutante Stakes (Grade I)

Purse $250,000. For Fillies, Two-Year-Olds.

7 furlongs over all-weather Polytrack

It would be great to see Sugarinthemorning improve yet again for hall of fame trainer Ron McAnally and take the Grade I Darley Debutante Stakes on Saturday. Sugarinthemorning looked fantastic winning at first asking in a state-bred $50,000 maiden special weight race in August.

If Sugarinthemorning has gotten any better, and McAnally has probably seen to it that she has, then she could beat this field going away. The Richard Mandella trained Avid might be able to either take the lead or track Wickedly Perfect before taking over in the stretch.

Like Sugarinthemorning, Avid won at first asking as well. The difference is that Avid ran in a much higher rated race. Wickedly Perfect is undefeated in two straight races but while she won the Grade III Sorrento at overlaid odds of close to 6/1, she’s going to have to win the Grade I Debutante as one of the favorites.

She’s definitely talented enough to do it, but this field came up too tough for me to make the likely chalk the key equine in my horse racing bets.

1. Sugarinthemorning
2. Avid
3. Wickedly Perfect

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