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

Nine horses on a one-and-one-sixteenth-mile on the inner turf course for three-year-olds and upward. 

#10 Hedge The Risk (9-2). This is a tough race to handicap because none of these horses have won before. But, Hedge The Risk has a few brothers on his father’s side (Constitution) with graded stakes victories, including Mindframe, who is 5-2-0 in seven career starts with two Grade 1 wins this summer, and finished second in the 2024 Belmont Derby. 

Plus, he has outstanding connections with Saratoga natives as the trainer (Brown) and jockey (Dylan Davis), and Klaravich Stables as the owner. Hedge The Risk ran one of the fastest speeds in this field in his first turf race last time out. Finally, if there is anyone I’d trust to move a horse from the dirt to the Saratoga turf, it’s Brown. 

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