Fountain Of Youth Stakes Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes is set for March 5 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Fountain Of Youth Stakes Preview
- Race: Fountain Of Youth Stakes
- Purse: $400,000
- Track: Gulfstream Park
- Date: March 5
- Post Time: 5:42 PM (ET)
- Live: Fountain Of Youth Stakes Odds: Click Here
2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Handicapping
An excellent 12-race card on Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park includes eight stakes races, with the feature race of the day the (G2) Fountain of Youth Stakes. Open to horses age three, the FOY is run at 1 1/16 miles on the Gulfstream dirt track.
The FOY is also a Kentucky Derby qualifying race and awards points on a 50-20-10-5 scale to the top four finishers. The race has drawn a full field of 12 and offers some excellent betting value.
Odds listed here are provided by the Gulfstream Park track handicapper.
2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Simplification Race Odds: 7-2
The runner-up last month in the (G3) Holy Bull Stakes at the track and distance, Simplification overcame a very poor break in that one and had to come from near the back of the pack to get up for the Place money.
Typically a colt that likes to be on the lead, Simplification went wire-to-wire in his previous start to the Holy Bull when he won the Mucho Macho Man Stakes by an easy four lengths.
Trainer Antonio Sano who won the race in 2017, jockey Jose Ortiz was the winning rider of last year’s race.
2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Emmanuel Race Odds: 9-2
Lightly raced Emmanuel has only two starts to his name but won them both in the same gate-to-wire fashion.
After scoring his maiden win at Gulfstream in mid-December, he then shipped over to Tampa Bay Downs where he was an open lengths winner of an allowance-level event at just over one mile. The horse that finished second in that race will also be racing on Saturday in the (G2) Gotham Stakes in New York.
Trainer Todd Pletcher has won the FOY three previous times, jockey Luis Saez has won twice.
2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: In Due Time Race Odds: 6-1
Another entry in this race stepping up to try stakes-level competition for the first time, In Due Time looked very good last out coming from off the pace to win by 5 3/4 lengths over a 4-5 favourite going one mile at Gulfstream.
In doing so he clocked a 100 Equibase speed figure, a 17-point increase over his previous race speed figure and his third consecutive speed figure improvement.
The trainer is Kelly Breen, Gulfstream Park regular Paco Lopez will be in he irons.
2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Rattle N Roll Race Odds: 12-1
Already a Grade 1 stakes winner, Rattle N Roll accomplished that feat last out when he won the (G1) Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity racing 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland way back in October. Following that race he was supposed to run in the (G1) Breeders’ Cup Juvenile but suffered a foot bruise and now comes back to the races after five months off.
The horse that ran third in the Breeders’ Futurity has since run second in the (G2) Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and two weeks ago won the (G3) Sam F Davis Stakes.
Trainer Kenny McPeek and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. both go for their first FOY win.
Here’s My 2022 Fountain Of Youth Stakes Free Pick.
Initially a horse named Mo Donegal was supposed to be the 3-1 morning line favourite for this race, but he came down with a fever this week and was scratched. That changed the complexion of the race a bit and it’s likely there will be all kinds of movement in the odds on many of these by the time the gate opens on Saturday.
It’s almost guaranteed that Rattle N Roll will be bet down from 12-1, but in any case he’s my pick to win. I can only guess the ML oddsmaker listed him so high due to the long layoff, and while that’s a concern I think if he can run anything close to what he did last October he’s a serious contender.
Full Field: Fountain Of Youth Stakes Odds
(By post position)
- #1 – Markhamian 20-1
- #2 – Simplification 7-2
- #3 – Howling Time 15-1
- #4 – In Due Time 6-1
- #5 – Dean Delivers 15-1
- #6 – Rattle N Roll 12-1
- #7 – AP’s Secret 20-1
- #8 – Emmanuel 9-2
- #9 – High Oak 8-1
- #10 – Giant Game 15-1
- #11 – O Captain 30-1
- #12 – Mo Donegal (scratched)
- #13 – Galt 12-1
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