Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2020 Risen Star Stakes is set for Saturday at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Preview and Prediction
- Race: Risen Star Stakes
- Purse: $400,000
- Track: Fair Grounds Race Course
- Date: February 15
- Post Time: 7:12 p.m. (ET)
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2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Handicapping
The first race in the 2020 Kentucky Derby qualifying series to award 50 points to the winner, the Risen Star drew 23 total entries. With the Fair Grounds track only able to accommodate a maximum of 12 horses in a race, the decision was made to split the field into two races. Race 2 will have 12 runners going 1 1/8 miles on the dirt.
Total Derby points to the top four finishers will be awarded on a 50-20-10-5 scale. Given that 35 to 40 points is usually enough to make the Derby, the Risen Star Stakes winners will be all-but-guaranteed a spot in the field.
Odds listed here are morning line odds from Bovada’s racebook.
2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick & Handicapping: Anneau d’Or Race Odds: 2-1
Unlike race 1 of the Risen Star where where there is no clear-cut favourite, Anneau d’Or is the definite top choice in the pre-race odds for race 2. Second in the (G1) Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November by just a head at odds of 28-1, he proved that effort was no fluke when he ran second in the (G2) Los Alamitos Futurity in December. There he was just a neck back of Thousand Words, who has since come back to win the (G3) Robert B. Lewis Stakes.
He’s trained by Blaine Wright, with Joel Rosario tapped to ride.
2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick & Handicapping: Liam’s Lucky Charm Race Odds: 7-2
A winner of three of six lifetime starts, Liam’s Lucky Charm has also never been out of the money in those six races, and popped off plus-100 Equibase speed figures in two of his last three races. The concern for this Florida-bred is that he has been racing exclusively in his home state and primarily in races restricted to other Florida-breds. Now he has to show what he can do in open stakes company.
Ralph Nicks trains, Edgar Zayas will be in the saddle.
2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick & Handicapping: Mailman Money Race Odds: 8-1
With two wins in two lifetime starts, Mailman Money comes into the Risen Star off a 5 3/4 length win in an allowance level race at Fair Grounds, where he overcame a bump at the break and being forced to race five-wide around the first turn, and then four-wide off as they came into the stretch. He won his career debut at odds of 25-1 over Digital, who is at 7-1 odds in the Risen Star race 1.
He’s trained by Bret Calhoun, Gabriel Saez gets the mount.
2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick & Handicapping: Major Fed Race Odds: 14-1
Similar to Mailman Money, Major Fed will also be making his stakes-racing debut, and also comes in off a win where he managed to prevail by more than 4 lengths, despite the fact he was forced to cover a lot of extra ground racing very wide. That win came over the Fair Grounds dirt going 1 1/16 miles, and so the added distance here shouldn’t be a concern.
Greg Foley is the trainer, Julien Leparoux will be the rider.
Here’s my 2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Free Pick.
Given the fact Anneau d’Or could be at even-money odds come post time, he offers no value and I’m going to try and beat him. Mailman Money looks like an improving colt that could be the sleeper pick, and I’ll play him to both win and place, and then put him on top of the exacta with both Anneau d’Or and Major Fed underneath.
Full Field: 2020 Risen Star Stakes Race 2 Odds
- Anneau d’Or 2-1
- Liam’s Lucky Charm 7-2
- Finnick The Fierce 8-1
- Lynn’s Map 8-1
- Mailman Money 8-1
- Modernist 10-1
- NY Traffic 12-1
- Major Fed 14-1
- Truculent 16-1
- Excession 20-1
- Mr. Big News 20-1
- Fame To Famous 33-1
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