BAUER'S BETS: DOUBLE STAKES ACTION

Saturday has a pair of $100,000 Stakes Races featuring speedsters going five furlongs on the lawn. 

Race 3 is the Turf Dash Stakes, which could be a two horse race between (7) PAY ANY PRICE and (9) VISION PERFECT. I prefer the latter as he has beaten the former in a past encounter and then went on to win a Grade 3 event. (1) TRICKS TO DOO and (3) WEATHER REPORT are contenders and should be used in exactas.

THE BET: $10 to win on (9) VISION PERFECT and $2 exactas with the other runners, up and down. 9 with 1,3,7 and 1,3,7 with 9. Total Bets $22

Race 5 is the Lightning City Stakes,                    (6) BROADWAY RUN is going into this contest off a series of nine works since Sept. 7 and looks to be primed for a big effort under Antonio Gallardo. Top rivals appear to be (1) MIZ MAYHAM, (4) MORTICIA and (11) SMILING CAUSEWAY.

THE BET: $10 to win on (6) BROADWAY RUN and $2 exactas up and down with the others.
6 with 1,4,11 and 1,4,11 with 6. Total Bets $22

YESTERDAYS RESULTS: (8) Game Lad, our choice won and paid $5.20, giving back $27. The $2 exacta 8-1 paid $22, showing a profit of $27. Total profit is now $58.80   GOOD LUCK!!

BAUER'S BETS: IMPORTANT UPDATE

Our choice in Race 4 (9) BLACK PRONG was scratched at 9:48 AM as was (7) UPPER CROWN. 

THE REVISED BET: $10 to win on (8) GAME LAD. Last season's champion trainer Gerald Bennett gives a leg up to top jock Antonio Gallardo. This five-year-old likes the Tampa lawn and was claimed by Bennett out his last race and would be no surprise here. Also play a $2 exacta box with (1) COMPLETELY BONKERS and (2) OUSBY. 1,2,8. TOTAL BET: $22  GOOD LUCK!

BAUER'S BETS: Fast & Firm at Tampa

Tampa Bay Downs ten race card kicks off at 12:40 PM. Partly sunny in the low 70's is the forecast.

Today's bet of the day is in Race 4, Post time is scheduled for 2:09 PM. A field of ten $16,000 Claimers will travel eight and one half furlongs on the grass. A case could be made for several contenders.

 (9) BLACK PRONG has a few things going for him today. He has won on the Tampa Turf before and he ships back here after an impressive win on the Gulfstream West sod under Sammy Camacho, back on October 27th. The four-year-old earned a huge speed figure for that effort and Camacho returns today. A repeat of their last race can put them back in the winners circle this afternoon.

THE BET: $10 to win on (9) BLACK PRONG and a $2 exacta box with (8) GAME LAD and (2) OUSBY 2,8,9. Total Bet: $22

PREVIOUS RESULTS-So far, so good. Have had two winners in as many days. Total bets were $44, we got back $75.80, a profit of $31.80
GOOD LUCK TODAY!!

Handicapper Bauer off to Winning Start

HorseracingFLA handicapper Bob Bauer is off to a winning start in our "race of the day" feature at Tampa Bay Downs.

Through two race days, he has recommended $44 in bets--which produced a total  payoff of $75.80.  That is an  81.4 percent return on investment.

On Saturday Nov. 24 in the ninth race, Bauer suggested a $10 win bet on Rosebud's Hope.  That horse won at 4-1 odds, and returned $51.00 on Bauer's bet.  He also recommended an exacta box, investing $12, that  did not pan out.

On Wednesday, Bauer suggested a $10 win bet on Russian Roulette in the third race. As the 3-5 favorite, she won and paid  $19.00 on the $10  bet.  

Bauer, HorseracingFLA's Tampa Bay editor also had Russian Roulette in a three-horse $2 exacta box. It came through  with two low-odds horses and paid $5.80.

Bauer will post his race of the day on each racing morning at Tampa Bay Downs.