Our Belmont Park Race 9 picks
- The 2-1 morning-line favorite, so the track handicapper rates this horse as the one to beat.
- Manuel Franco has won 30 of 149 rides (20%) at New York tracks in our records.
- Trainer Chad Brown is 22-for-88 (25%) in New York, with horses in the money 58% of the time.
- By Not This Time out of Scauri.
- At 12-1 on the morning line, the price is bigger than this horse’s connections suggest.
- Paco Lopez has won 4 of 24 rides (17%) at New York tracks in our records.
- Trainer Claude McGaughey III is 6-for-17 (35%) in New York, with horses in the money 65% of the time.
- By Mendelssohn out of Splashy Kisses.
- A 12-1 outsider with enough in its corner to hit the board and juice an exotic.
- Edgard Zayas has won 11 of 87 rides (13%) at New York tracks in our records.
- Trainer Rodolphe Brisset is 2-for-9 (22%) in New York, with horses in the money 44% of the time.
- By Hard Spun out of Summertime Green.
How our picks did
- Top pick: Counterintuitive (2-1) missed the board.
- Value play: Mid Summer (12-1) finished third.
- Longshot: Emerald Spun (12-1) missed the board.
How Race 9 sets up
Counterintuitive is the 2-1 morning-line favorite, with Nonconsecutivetrms next at 4-1. Prices stretch out to 30-1 on Racing Colors, so the board has real depth.
Among the riders, Manuel Franco has the best New York strike rate in our records: 20% wins from 149 mounts.
Forecast: becoming sunny, high of 69°F.
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