Cigar Mile Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2019 Cigar Mile Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2019 Cigar Mile is set for Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Cigar Mile Preview and Prediction
- Race: (G1) Cigar Mile
- Purse: $750,000
- Track: Aqueduct Racetrack
- Date: December 7
- Post Time: 4:16 p.m. (ET)
- Live: 2019 Cigar Mile Odds: Click Here
2019 Cigar Mile Handicapping
As a handicap race, the 11 entries in the Cigar Mile have been assigned to carry different weights – from 114 lbs. to 122 lbs. based on past performance results. As the name indicates, they’ll be racing one mile on the Aqueduct dirt track, chasing a total purse of $750,000.
Here then are four horses I’ll use to fill out a betting slip.
With all the attention he received for his historic disqualification after crossing the finish line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, it’s easy to overlook what an excellent season Maximum Security has put together.
A win on Saturday would give him six in eight starts this year, and would lock up three-year-old Horse of the Year honors. Odds here are from Bovada’s racebook.
2019 Cigar Mile Free Pick & Handicapping: Maximum Security race Odds: 27-20
Based on this season’s results and the fact the one-turn mile at Aqueduct would seem to perfectly fit his running style, it’s no surprise to see Maximum Security listed here as the solid favorite. He was beaten by a length in his first start after the Derby, but bounced back from that to take the (G1) Haskell Invitational in July.
He was then given three months off before returning to win the (G3) Bold Ruler with a front-running effort. Expect him to go to the front here and try to take the field wire-to-wire.
Jason Servis is the trainer, regular rider Luis Saez gets the mount.
2019 Cigar Mile Free Pick & Handicapping : Spun To Run Race Odds: 5-2
A well-beaten third behind Maximum Security in the Haskell, Spun To Run took a big step forward last out in winning the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, defeating a very strong favorite in multiple graded-stakes winner Omaha Beach.
He only got his maiden win in his fifth lifetime start last January and was really a non-factor in two Grade 1 events prior to the Breeders’ Cup. The question for handicappers is if he has really developed into a top-level horse or if he’ll regress off his big effort in the Breeders’ Cup.
Trained by Juan Guerrero, he’ll be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr.
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2019 Cigar Mile Free Pick & Handicapping: Bal Harbour Race Odds: 8-1
Although he is winless in six starts this year, Bal Harbour finished in the money in five of those. Most recently he ran third in the (G2) Hagyard Fayette Stakes, beaten by Tom’s d’Etat who last weekend captured the (G1) Clark Stakes.
While he seems a notch below Maximum Security, he gets a cut back in distance here from his more recent races and that should be of benefit.
Todd Pletcher trains, and John Velazquez is the jockey.
2019 Cigar Mile Free Pick & Handicapping Network Effect Race Odds: 12-1
Lightly raced Florida-bred Network Effect scored a pair of runner-up finishes to close out 2018 in the (G3) Nashua Stakes and (G2) Remsen Stakes, both at Aqueduct. He was then away from racing for most of 2019, but returned to score an allowance level win over the track and at the distance one month ago.
He gets a 7 and 6 lb. break in the weights over the top two and could be sitting on a big effort.
Chad Brown is trainer of record, and Javier Castellano will be in the irons.
Here’s my 2019 Cigar Mile Handicap Free Pick.
He’s not invincible, but Maximum Security is the class of this field and I think he gets the job done. He’ll have to contend with other speed horses early in the race and a lot will come down to how well jockey Saez is able to control the early pace.
With little value for the win, I’ll play him on top in an exacta with Bal Harbour and Network Effect underneath.
Full Field: 2019 Cigar Mile Handicap Odds
- Maximum Security 27-20
- Spun To Run 5-2
- Whitmore 7-1
- Bal Harbour 12-1
- Looking At Bikinis 12-1
- Network Effect 12-1
- Pat On The Back 14-1
- Nicodemus 20-1
- True Timber 25-1
- Tail Of Silence 33-1
- Forewarned 100-1
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