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. Examine again each week for a few highlighted picks designed that will help you money a number of bets and make some cash.

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Saturday, July 1

The Fourth of July vacation weekend begins out with a bang for racing followers on Saturday with an amazing 11-race program at Ellis Park, led by a number of stakes races initially scheduled for Churchill Downs. The centerpiece of the cardboard is the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Stakes, which is a Breeders’ Cup Problem Sequence “Win and You’re In” race on the highway to the Longines Breeders’ Cup Basic. There will likely be six stakes on the cardboard in all, with the $400,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes topping the undercard on what must be a superb day of racing and wagering at Ellis Park. Have an excellent weekend.

Ellis Park, Race 8, $400,000 Fleur de Lis Stakes, 4:22 p.m. ET

The Grade 2 Fleur de Lis will likely be run at 1 1/8 miles on the primary observe and drew a area of eight fillies and mares. The race is headlined by the favourite, #6 A Mo Reay skilled by Brad Cox. A Mo Reay exits a fourth-place end within the Grade 1 La Troienne Stakes offered by TwinSpires in a race that snapped her three-race successful streak, throughout which she racked-up victories within the Grade 1 Beholder Mile Stakes at Santa Anita Park along with the Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn Park and the Pago Hop Stakes at Honest Grounds. At present’s race is a troublesome spot, however the area is significantly softer than the bunch that beat her final time. This race represents a superb alternative for a rebound. The horse with the very best probability at an upset is #1 Bellamore, who ships in from her base at Santa Anita for coach Simon Callaghan off of a turf loss final trip within the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes. Bellamore exhibits solely two latest filth races in her previous performances and each had been excellent second-place finishes behind a few the hardest Distaffers in coaching, together with a runner-up end behind Adare Manor in April’s Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes and a second to Performed Laborious in final fall’s Grade 3 Falls Metropolis Stakes at Churchill Downs.

The Play: Guess #6 A Mo Reay (8-5) to win and play her in an exacta field with #1 Bellamore (5-1).

Ellis Park, Race 10, $1 million Stephen Foster Stakes, 5:26 p.m. ET

Saturday’s function race is the Grade 1 Stephen Foster to be run at 1 1/8 miles on the primary observe. It’s an excellent race that attracted most of the finest older horses in coaching who’re the principals within the handicap division. Ken McPeek appears to have this race in his crosshairs because the coach of maybe each of the highest contenders within the race, #4 Rattle N Roll and #5 Smile Glad, and the winner of the race may be very prone to come all the way down to a battle between that duo. Rattle N Roll is the most well liked older horse in coaching in 2023 with back-to-back-to-back wins within the Grade 3 Blame Stakes, the Grade 3 Pimlico Particular Stakes Introduced by Bulleit Bourbon, and the Grade 3 Ben Ali Stakes in his final three outings. Rattle N Roll is a late runner who hasn’t all the time gotten an honest tempo to chase currently but nonetheless retains on successful. He may very well be able to step up at this time and earn his first profession Grade 1 win. Smile Glad was as soon as a sizzling commodity on the highway to the 2022 Kentucky Derby Introduced by Woodford Reserve because the winner of the 2021 Kentucky Jockey Membership Stakes and runner-up within the 2022 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes. He has regarded nice in his present comeback as a 4-year-old, capped by a giant win at Churchill Downs final trip within the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes Introduced by Sentient Jet, during which he beat Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Introduced by Baccarat winner Artwork Collector by two lengths and earned an enormous velocity determine. That race served discover to the remainder of the division that Smile Glad is again and he means enterprise, and he shouldn’t lose if he’s capable of present up at this time with one other comparable effort.

The Play:  Guess #5 Smile Glad (3-1) to win and field him within the exacta together with his stablemate, #4 Rattle N Roll (4-1).