Brent Sedo – Last Updated on April 30, 2020 12:54 pm
Apple Blossom Handicap Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2020 Apple Blossom Handicap is set for Saturday at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Apple Blossom Handicap Preview and Prediction
- Race: Apple Blossom Handicap
- Purse: $600,000
- Track: Oaklawn Park
- Date: April 18
- Post Time: 6:16 PM (ET)
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2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Handicapping
One of the main events of the spring racing season at Oaklawn Park, the Apple Blossom Handicap has been run for more than 60 years at the Hot Springs, Arkansas track. The second of two major stakes races at Oaklawn on Saturday afternoon, the Apple Blossom is open to fillies and mares aged four and older.
The 2020 version of the race has drawn a full field of 14, and they’ll race 1 1/16 miles on the Oaklawn dirt.
Odds listed here are from Bovada’s racebook.
2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping: Serengeti Empress Race Odds: 9-4
The winner of the 2019 (G1) Kentucky Oaks, Serengeti Empress has been mostly just on the outside of the winner’s circle since then, with three runner-up finishes in her next five races, as well as a third-place run on the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
Last out she did manage a fairly easy wire-to-wire win in the (G1) Azeri Stakes at Oaklawn at this same distance, and she’ll be running in her third race of her form cycle, typically a positive handicapping angle.
She’s trained by Tom Amoss, with Joe Talamo in the saddle.
2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping: Ce Ce Odds: 4-1
Lightly raced four-year-old Ce Ce will be making only her sixth lifetime start, shipping in from California where she is on a two-race winning streak, last out winning the (G1) Beholder Mile at Santa Anita.
Having said that, her best races seem to have come in sprints of six or 6 1/2 furlongs, and this will be the first time she tries stretching out beyond a mile. She has also drawn the tough far outside post and will have to be hustled from the gate to get a good early position.
Mike McCarthy is her trainer, with 2015 Triple Crown winning jockey Victor Espinoza tabbed to ride.
2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping: Point Of Honor Race Odds: 12-1
Although she lacks the speed of some of the others in here, Point Of Honor is a filly that always seems to have a say in the outcome, as evidenced by her three wins and three runner-up finishes in her seven lifetime starts.
She comes in here off of three consecutive runner-up finishes, two of those in Grade 1 events at Saratoga last summer. She kicked off 2020 by running second as the favourite in a handicap event at Tampa Bay, where she faced older runners for the first time.
Trained by George Weaver, Drayden Van Dyke will be in the irons.
2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick & Handicapping: Go Google Yourself Race Odds: 20-1
One that appears to be getting better with age, Go Google Yourself spent most of her first three racing seasons in the allowance ranks, with one also-ran finish in a graded-stakes race at Churchill back in 2018. Over the past 12 months, however, all of her starts have been in stakes races, with five-of-six at the graded-stakes level, where she’s scored three wins and two runner-up placings.
She ran really well last out to win the (G3) Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn at Saturday’s distance, and could be sitting on another big effort.
Paul McGee trains, while Brian Hernandez Jr. gets the mount.
Here’s my 2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Free Pick.
You could make a case for a few different ones in here, and I expect the odds will be shifting around a bit. At anything like 5-2 or 3-1 I’ll take Serengeti Empress for the win.
I think there are some distance issues to be answered by a few others and wouldn’t be surprised to see one or two of the longer shots hit the board, and so I’ll use Point Of Honor and Go Google Yourself underneath in the exacta, put those two along with Ce Ce in the place and show spots in the trifecta.
Full Field: 2020 Apple Blossom Handicap Odds
- Serengeti Empress 9-4
- Ce Ce 4-1
- Come Dancing 6-1
- Lady Apple 8-1
- Street Band 10-1
- Ollie’s Candy 12-1
- Cookie Dough 12-1
- Point Of Honor 12-1
- Horologist 16-1
- Go Google Yourself 20-1
- Queen Nekia 25-1
- Saracosa 25-1
- Awe Emma 50-1
- Coldwater 66-1
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