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 can assist you money just a few bets and make some cash. Noel’s picks have been featured nearly all over the place horse racing picks may be discovered, together with in print within the Every day Racing Kind, The HorsePlayer Journal and American Turf Month-to-month, on-line at DRF.com, Twinspires.com and USRacing.com, from the paddock on-track at Arlington Worldwide Racecourse, and on the air on HRTV, TVG, NYC OTB Additional, NYRA’s Speaking Horses, and on broadcast TV on WAVE-3 Louisville, ABC KOLO-8 in Reno, Nevada, and channel 72 Lengthy Island Cablevision.
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Saturday, Jan. 24
One of many greatest and finest days of the winter racing season arrives to Gulfstream Park this Saturday with Pegasus World Cup day, a day of eight stakes races headlined by the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes. For my picks on the much-anticipated characteristic race, please go to America’s Finest Racing’s separate Pegasus trifecta handicapping article compiled by ABR’s editorial employees. For this weekend’s winners, let’s take a better take a look at the 2 greatest races on the undercard, together with the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational and the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Stakes offered by TAA. If we are able to decide the winners of those two nice races, we are able to construct bankroll that may be rolled over into a giant rating on the Pegasus World Cup. Take pleasure in one of the best of winter racing this Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Good luck!
Gulfstream Park, Race 10, $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational Stakes offered by TAA, 3:45 p.m. ET
The Grade 2 Pegasus Absolutely and Mare Turf has drawn a aggressive full discipline set to run 1 1/16 miles. Let’s exit on a limb and slim this down to simply the 2 high contenders, beginning with #8 Proctor Avenue, who will make a terrific win wager at or close to the morning-line odds of 12-1. She has but to ever run in a graded stakes race, however she appears prepared, prepared, and capable of excel on this spot for coach Brendan Walsh with Tyler Gaffalione aboard. Gaffalione was aboard each of Proctor Avenue’s two current spectacular races, which had been off-the-pace scores at Keeneland and Churchill Downs, the place she prevailed within the $289,000 Cardinal Stakes, knocking off #14 Superior Czech by three-quarters of a size. No horse on this discipline has as a lot upside or is on such an apparent upward trajectory as Proctor Avenue, who appears to be sitting on the verge of a profession breakout race. The opposite high contender on this discipline is #7 Whiskey Choice from the barn of coach Chad Brown with Flavien Prat aboard. Whiskey Choice has an analogous stalking operating type as Proctor Avenue and this race may come right down to the 2 of them attending to the entrance within the stretch and battling to the end line. Whiskey Choice is a winner of two of her three outings since becoming a member of Brown’s barn in 2025, together with authoritative wins in her final outing in Aqueduct’s Athenia Stakes in September and Monmouth Park’s Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes, which she received final June when contemporary off an analogous sort of layoff. Word: If Superior Czech attracts into this discipline from the also-eligible record, go forward and play trifectas together with her.
The Play: Wager on #8 Proctor Avenue (12-1) to win and play her in an exacta field with #7 Whiskey Choice (9-2). Add a three-horse trifecta field if #14 Superior Czech (20-1) will get into the race.
Gulfstream Park, Race 12, $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational, 4:54 p.m. ET
Saturday’s undercard characteristic race at Gulfstream Park is the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf, which has drawn a wide-open full discipline able to compete at 1 1/8 miles for one million bucks. You may need to show a web page or two in your program or Every day Racing Kind to get to the decide within the race, however ensure you don’t overlook #12 Fort Washington on the far outdoors. Fort Washington didn’t deal with the gap of 1 ½ miles at Kentucky Downs when final seen again in September, however don’t be fooled by that outcome as a result of his kind at shorter route distances has been greater than ok to win this Saturday. He received the Grade 1 Arlington Million and the Grade 3 Dinner Occasion Stakes final 12 months, along with successful the Grade 3 Canadian Turf Stakes with a last-to-first rally on the Gulfstream turf course. His Beyer Pace Figures routinely land within the 95-99 vary when he’s on his finest recreation, and that makes him the horse to beat. The primary concern for Fort Washington and the opposite closers on this discipline might be whether or not or not anybody runs with the speedy #8 Cabo Spirit up entrance. Cabo Spirit might be pushed to his restrict at this 1 1/8-mile distance, however he can do it if allowed to manage the tempo as he did in his final outing when he received Santa Anita Park’s Grade 3 San Gabriel Stakes in wire-to-wire trend. Lastly, don’t overlook to incorporate the very logical #10 Cugino in your exacta and trifecta tickets. Cugino not often runs a nasty race and has completed within the exacta in six of his final seven races, together with wins in Monmouth Park’s Pink Financial institution Stakes and within the Grade 2 Pink Smith Stakes at Aqueduct.
The Play: Wager on #12 Forst Washington (10-1) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta containers together with #8 Cabo Spirit (8-1) and #10 Cugino (7-2).
