If you're not up and waiting to bet the first race yet, you risk the chance of being labeled a FUGAZZI horse player!!!

Hot, humid and a matter of when and where a T-storm will land in Saratoga sometime late afternoon or evening.

The opening card is challenging to say the least and I'm not crazy how the horizontal sequences line up for me today. I've been texting back and forth with Richiebee since 630 just discussing the Lake George.

9th The Lake George:
Typical Saratoga turf stake, 2 Chad Browns, (4 in the Diana tomorrow) a Euro invader with the fastest TG number(not by much) and getting 1st Lasix and the rest of the field within 2 TG points of each other!!!!
Sky MY Sky looks to be the pace setter, Try Your Luck from the outside and Thundering Sky from the rail will have to be in the pace equation as well or lose all chance. Both Chad's are moving forward and both will take money deservingly so. The Euro Diamond Fields may get overlooked at bit in the betting and I expect the ML or above. My real interest in the heat lies in Enjoy Yourself. Many would consider him coming off an 0-2-X, I don't as per definition of this often misunderstood pattern, his first and 2nd race in the pattern are 55 days apart. The true definition says no more than 42 days between races. Her 0 and the 3 preceding races make as pretty a sheet as you ever want to see. She was very rank in her last and had a lot of traffic in the one previous. The Belmont Oaks results flatter her and she is 20/1 ML and will probably be more than that!!!!

So Enjoy Yourself today with a nice win bet and exacta's with the Chad's and the Euro invader, toss in Sky MY Sky at a price for a triple and super salad.

Good luck, (we all need it at this marathon)

Frank D.