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

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Saturday, June 24

The month of June has blown by, and summer time is formally right here. A number of tracks are at present gearing up for subsequent week’s massive vacation weekend main as much as the Fourth of July. This weekend, among the greatest racing and wagering to be discovered will likely be at Belmont Park, which has a wonderful 10-race card in retailer because the clock for New York racing clicks nearer and nearer to the beginning of the Saratoga meet in mid-July. Our focus this Saturday will likely be on a pair of turf races with good fields the place the proper performs ought to be capable of yield a tidy revenue.

Belmont Park, Race 5, starter allowance, 3:09 p.m. ET

Saturday’s fifth race is a starter allowance grass dash race going six furlongs on the interior turf that drew a 10-horse area with 9 betting pursuits. The morning-line favourite is No. 1 entry of #1 Dont Let Me Down, and #1a My Sea Cottage. Whereas My Sea Cottage could also be entered at a distance too quick, the horse to beat within the race seems to be like Dont Let Me Down, who evidently was at all times meant to be a turf sprinter however needed to await turf season to start once more as a way to excel. He did simply that two races in the past when he exploded away from maidens to win by 6 1/4 lengths. Toss out the off-the-turf loss final time and wager him again on the grass at this logical class degree. In the event you do like My Sea Cottage, you additionally get him at no cost as part of the entry. The horse within the area with the most effective probability at an upset is #5 Disarmed who obtained hooked in a pace duel, KO’d his rival, and yielded to a better however ran on for second when stretched to seven furlongs final day trip. He received the race earlier than that on dust at Saturday’s six-furlong distance, which appears preferable, and is in tip-top type now on each turf and dust and but nonetheless a discount at 8-1 odds on the morning line. When making a win wager on this race, take the tote board under consideration as a result of Disarmed is prone to be the worth.

The Play: Wager #5 Disarmed (8-1) to win and play him in exacta bins with the entry of #1 Dont Let Me Down and #1a My Sea Cottage (2-1).

Belmont Park, Race 6, $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes, 3:41 p.m. ET

Saturday’s function race is the Wild Applause Stakes, which drew a area of eight 3-year-old fillies set to go one mile on the turf. Similar to so many grass options at Belmont Park, this race is prone to come all the way down to a battle between coach Christophe Clement together with his #8 Breath Away versus Chad Brown together with his uncoupled entry of #2 Tax Implications and #3 Liguria. The sphere is definitely loaded with promising 3-year-old turfers, however the Clement and Brown trio seem to face out above the others. Breath Away has by no means been worse than second in 4 profession races and has two wins and a second in three turf begins to date, together with a victory within the $100,000 Sanibel Island Stakes on April 1 at Gulfstream Park and a runner-up end within the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico on Could 19. Her pace figures earned in these races is nicely above the opposite fillies on this area. Brown-trained Liguria, the winner of the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes final December at Del Mar, completed fifth however misplaced by just one ½ lengths final day trip within the Grade 2 Edgewood Stakes Introduced by Forcht Financial institution on Could 5 at Churchill Downs off a five-month layoff. She now finds herself in what seems to be like a better spot Saturday. Brown’s #2 Tax Implications lacks a prep race however had defeated Liguria by over six lengths when each had been maidens final September at Monmouth Park. Irad Ortiz Jr. will get the mount on Liguria whereas Manny Franco is aboard Tax Implications within the Wild Applause.

The Play:  Wager #8 Breath Away (2-1) to win and field her within the exacta with #3 Liguria (7-2). Play a three-horse trifecta field including in #2 Tax Implications (3-1) to your tickets.