Springboard Mile Stakes Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2022 Springboard Mile is set for December 17 at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Springboard Mile Stakes Preview
- Race: Remington Springboard Mile Stakes
- Purse: $400,000
- Track: Remington Park
- Date: December 17
- Post Time: 11:19 PM (ET)
- Live: Springboard Mile Odds: Click Here
2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Handicapping
As we close in on the holiday season, we’re also well into the 2023 Kentucky Derby qualifying season, and this weekend the action takes place at Remington Park and the running of the Remington Springboard Mile.
The Springboard Mile is a Derby qualifier and offers Derby points to the top four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 scale. The top three finishers will also gain automatic entry into the 2023 Oklahoma Derby.
The race has drawn a solid field of nine two-year-old colts, and they’ll be running one mile on the Remington dirt track.
Odds listed here are provided by the Remington Park track oddsmaker.
2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Echo Again Race Odds: 9-5
A 6 3/4 length win on debut at Saratoga in August propelled Echo Again into the stakes ranks when he made his next start in the (G3) Iroquois at Churchill. He was favoured there and had no excuses when running a dull seventh going 1 1/16 miles.
He’s been off since then but has been working steadily at Churchill and more recently at Fair Grounds where he recorded a bullet five-furlong effort two weeks ago in preparation for this.
Trainer Steve Asmussen has won the Springboard a record six times. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. won the race in 2019.
2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Giant Mischief Race Odds: 3-1
Unbeaten in two lifetime starts, Giant Mischief was impressive last out when battling down the lane to win an allowance-level event at Keeneland on Breeders’ Cup weekend. In taking the win he scored a 101 Equibase speed figure, tops in this field.
He did catch an ideal rail trip in that one, and there is some question as to the quality he was facing, as the third-place horse was more than 18 lengths clear of the rest of the field.
Trainer Brad Cox and jockey Florent Geroux both try for their first Springboard Mile win.
2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Campfire Creed Race Odds: 5-1
One of two in here carrying the local hopes, Campfire Creed has made his last three starts at Remington and has two wins and a runner-up effort to show for it.
The most recent two of those were at the stakes level. He won the six-furlong Kip DeVille Stakes by 1 3/4 lengths, and then ran second by a nose in the Clever Trevor Stakes at seven furlongs on a sloppy track.
He’s trained by Danny Pish, Gerardo Mora will ride.
2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Wildatlanticstorm Race Odds: 6-1
Iowa-bred Wildatlanticstorm has also made three consecutive starts at Remington and has battled with Campfire Creed in the last two, running second to that one in the Kip Deville and then getting the win in the photo in the Clever Trevor.
He’s the most experienced runners the field with five starts, picking up three wins and running second twice over that span.
The trainer is Ray Ashford Jr., Leandro Goncalves gets the call to ride.
Here’s My 2022 Springboard Mile Stakes Free Pick.
The last horse to win the Remington Springboard Mile and then go on to make the Kentucky Derby starting gate was Long Range Toddy in 2019, and no horse coming from this race has ever won the run for the roses.
So it’s a long road ahead for any of these to even make the Derby, and there’s no real standout in the field. I’d like to see Echo Again get another race in off the layoff before I’d want to bet him at low odds, so I’ll instead be playing Giant Mischief for the win.
Full Field: Springboard Mile Stakes Odds
By post position
- #1 – Echo Again 9-5
- #2 – Gunflash 15-1
- #3 – Campfire Creed 5-1
- #4 – Lil Sweet Thang 12-1
- #5 – Giant Mischief 3-1
- #6 – American Outlaw 15-1
- #7 – Ghost Hero 15-1
- #8 – Money Run 12-1
- #9 – Wildatlanticstorm 6-1
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