Welcome to Noel Michaels’ Weekend Winners, the place to go for weekend finest bets and spot performs from veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer Noel Michaels. Test again each week for a few highlighted picks designed that will help you money just a few bets and make some cash.

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Saturday, Oct. 28

There’s one week to go till we get right down to enterprise within the 2023 Breeders’ Cup World Championships, however first issues first – Saturday is closing day at Keeneland and the observe has one final glorious weekend card to supply horseplayers and handicappers. The back-end of the 10-race, Saturday Keeneland card is jam-packed with playable races, together with two graded stakes races, the Grade 3 Bryan Station Stakes and the Grade 2 Hagyard Fayette Stakes, plus a high-priced, stakes-caliber allowance-optional claiming race that goes as Race 7. For this weekend’s winners, let’s sort out Race 7 on the cardboard in addition to the Fayette Stakes, and hopefully we will shut out the Keeneland fall meet with a pair of cash makers. Better of luck and revel in closing day at Keeneland.

Keeneland, Race 7, $140,000 Allowance-optional claiming, 4:12 p.m. ET

Race 7 is an allowance-optional claiming race that had drawn a stakes-caliber 10-horse discipline set to go seven furlongs on the primary observe. The morning-line favourite is #2 Traegar, who’s getting back from a nine-month layoff and appears extremely beatable towards this degree of competitors within the return from the sidelines. There are many good mid-priced choices on this discipline topped by #1 Fortin Hill, who’s getting back from a quick freshening and already has proved to be a horse that runs properly contemporary as lately as this spring when rolled to victory in an analogous race with after taking 5 months between races. Earlier in his profession, he ran his career-best velocity determine at this seven-furlong distance, and the newest race in July was an in depth third behind repeat next-out winner No person Listens in a $100,000 stakes race at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Corridor of Famer John Velazquez picks up the mount, his finest velocity figures are ok, and he’s a discount value at 6-1 odds on the morning line. One other fascinating contender at good odds on the morning line is #9 O Besos, who was ok to complete fifth in final fall’s Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Dash the place he closed at six furlongs. Final time, he misplaced to toughies within the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes, and now he drops in vs. softer competitors and cuts again to seven furlongs, making him extraordinarily harmful at 10-1.

The Play: Guess to win on #1 Fortin Hill (6-1) and play him in an exacta field with #9 O Besos (10-1).

Keeneland, Race 9, $350,000 Hagyard Fayette Stakes, 5:16 p.m. ET

The Grade 2 Fayette Stakes presents a giant purse and has drawn a full discipline of 12, plus two also-eligible entrants, set to go 1 1/8 miles on the primary observe. The race seems to be overloaded with velocity with maybe half the sector able to going to the lead in the event that they ship. Due to this fact, a quick tempo appears to be assured. The standout within the discipline seems to be #10 Trademark, who has been in career-best kind within the current races, together with a stakes win at Horseshoe Indianapolis and back-to-back runner-up finishes within the Grade 3 Philip Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park and notably final time when only a head brief within the Grade 2 Lukas Traditional Stakes at Churchill Downs when nipped by Clapton at this distance. Something near a repeat of that final effort must be ok to run away from this bunch. After Trademark, it appears advisable to seek-out reside late runners within the discipline to fill-out the opposite spots within the exacta and trifecta, particularly as a result of these horses determine to go off at interesting odds on the tote board. #2 Blissful American is a stone nearer who will get his form of tempo set-up at this time. He acquired up for third earlier this yr in races such because the Grade 3 Blame Stakes and the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Stakes. #3 King Fury wants tempo to set him up from far again within the pack. He owns a previous win at Keeneland and was third on this race in 2021. #9 O’Connor wants to show the tables on a few these who beat him final time within the Grade 2 Woodward Stakes, however he might be in a greater place to excel right here and his excessive velocity figures appear to point he’s succesful on his finest day.

The Play:  Guess #10 Trademark (9-2) to win and key him on prime of three horses in exacta and trifectas. Horses to play beneath are #2 Blissful American (15-1), #3 King Fury (20-1), and #9 O’Connor (5-1).