Sands Point Stakes Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2022 Sands Point Stakes is set for October 15 at Aqueduct Race Track in Queens, New York. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Sands Point Stakes Preview
- Race: Sands Point Stakes
- Purse: $200,000
- Track: Aqueduct Race Track
- Date: October 15
- Post Time: 4:58 PM (ET)
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2022 Sands Point Stakes Handicapping
Ongoing construction at Belmont Park has meant the move of the Belmont fall meet over to the other New York track at Aqueduct for what the New York Racing Association has dubbed “Belmont at the Big A.” As a result, Aqueduct plays host on Saturday to the (G2) Sands Point Stakes.
Open to three-year-old fillies, the Sands Point is run at 1 1/8 miles on the Aqueduct turf course. A very balanced field of nine includes a star from last year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships, and a couple others looking to get to the graded-stakes winner’s circle for the first time.
Odds listed here are provided by the Aqueduct track oddsmaker.
2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Pizza Bianca Race Odds: 5-2
Going off at 10-1 in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Pizza Bianca outran her odds with a swift turn of foot off the turn and took the win by a half length.
So far this season she has a win and a runner-up finish in a pair of lower-level stakes, but has been away from the track since June. Last out she shipped over to the UK to take on some of the best in the world in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Ascot where she finished 8th.
She’s trained by Christophe Clement, Jose Ortiz will ride.
2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Eminent Victor Race Odds: 3-1
Eminent Victor comes into this after posting back-to-back 100-plus Equibase speed figures in her last two starts without getting a win in either of those races.
Two back she stumbled at the gate but put in a strong late rally to just get beaten by a nose going one mile in the (G3) Lake George Stakes at Saratoga. Last out she again had some trouble at the gate in the (G2) Lake Placid Stakes but couldn’t manage the same rally and finished fifth in a field of six.
She’s trained by Chad Brown, jockey Manny Franco will be in the irons.
2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Vergara Race Odds: 9-2
A last out winner at Kentucky Downs in the Duelling Grounds Oaks, Vergara broke sharply in that event and battled on the lead before digging in through the stretch and prevailing by a head.
That race was run over a testing 1 5/16 miles and so she’ll enjoy a significant cut back in distance here. She has a previous stakes win on the Aqueduct turf course, and has been in the money in six of eight lifetime starts.
Graham Motion is the trainer, Joel Rosario will ride.
2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Spirit And Glory Race Odds: 8-1
The Irish-bred Spirit And Glory started the season with the win and a runner-up finish in races on her native soil before shipping over and winning her US debut at Belmont Park in an allowance-level event.
She was near the back next out in the Lake George, but broke through in her last race when winning the Virginia Oaks in a time that was only 2/10ths off the track record, while hitting a career high 103 Equibase speed figure in the process.
She’s trained by Robert Falcone Jr, while Dylan Davis gets the call to ride.
Here’s My 2022 Sands Point Stakes Free Pick.
As the only Grade 1 winner in the field, Pizza Bianca is deserving of favoured status, and anything like her 5-2 ML seems to be fair value. However, while I can overlook her last effort at Ascot – a huge step up in class over any she has faced before – I’m a bit concerned with whether she’ll be in top racing shape on the four-month layoff.
I’ll use her exacta, but at a price I’ll play Spirit And Glory for the win. Of those entered, she seems to be the one most consistently moving forward, and while the Virginia Oaks may not have presented the toughest test, if she can duplicate that effort she has every chance to top this field.
Full Field: Sands Point Stakes Odds
By post position
- #1 – Skims 5-1
- #2 – Vergara 9-2
- #3 – Eminent Victor 3-1
- #4 – Canisy 8-1
- #5 – Spirit And Glory 8-1
- #6 – Hail To 12-1
- #7 – Golden Rocket 20-1
- #8 – Lady Baffled 20-1
- #9 – Pizza Bianca 5-2
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