Inside Saratoga’s Jim Dandy Stakes: Dark Horses Poised to Shock the Spa This Saturday

Five horses on a one-and-one-eighth-mile dirt track for three-year-olds with a $500,000 purse. 

#3 Mo Plex (10-1). I hit Race 8 last week at The Spa based on the logic I’m applying in the Jim Dandy: Betting a horse that differs from his rivals. Coming off a win in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby, his first race longer than a mile, Mo Plex is the only horse in this field with “early speed,” so the added distance didn’t hurt him. 

Granted, Mo Plex will need to run faster to win the Jim Dandy, but maybe he’ll be able to save something for the final stretch if the other horses aren’t challenging him early. He’s run faster in three consecutive races, and if Mo Plex takes another step forward, he’ll be running fast enough to win the Jim Dandy, or at least hit the board. 

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