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Sunday, October 18, 2026

Yesterday’s settled scorecard, and today’s free race.

Yesterday, settled — Saturday, October 17, 2026

PICKS SETTLED

WINNERS

13-12-7

WIN-PLACE-SHOW

$92

$2 WIN BETS

$70.84

RETURNED

-23.0%

ROI

Played through the backups: 50 settled · 14 winners · W-P-S 14-13-9 · $100 win bets → $83.84 · ROI -16.2%

Best Bet of the day: #12 Deep Flame (Keeneland Race 7, 7/5) — finished out of the money; the race went to #6 Dr. Kapur — paid $50.24 to win
Biggest winner on the sheet: #7 Sweet Fantasy (Delta Downs Race 9, 4/1) — won — paid $9.40 to win ($2)
Featured play: #2 Artislas (Santa Anita Race 3, 8/5) — won — paid $5.00 to win ($2)
Next Best: #9 Mashallah (Keeneland Race 9, 8/5) — finished out of the money; the race went to #11 Movie Night — paid $9.84 to win

6 pick(s) were scratched in the official chart — refunds, excluded from the scorecard.

Full settled card, every pick graded: results.thoroughwiz.com/2026-10-17/selections/

Watch the races

▶ Watch the replay — Keeneland Race 7 · Oct 17 — the Perryville (G3): Dr. Kapur ($50.24) ran down our Best Bet Deep Flame · official Keeneland replay page · via horseracingofficials.com

▶ Santa Anita Race 3 · Oct 17 — the Lure Stakes: our featured play Artislas led all the way · Santa Anita Park (YouTube)

▶ Keeneland Race 9 · Oct 17 — the Raven Run (G2): Movie Night; our Next Best Mashallah finished out of the money · Wire2Wire (YouTube)

Today’s free race

Belmont Park — Race 5

Post 3:23 PM ET · 1 1/16 Mile · Turf · Allowance 50000s

The pick: #5 Bryant and Cooper (2/1)

Chad C Brown · Manuel Franco

Named sheet edge: leads the blended late graph (LP rank 1, 96%) for Chad C Brown/Manuel Franco in the Belmont Park R5 (Allowance 50000s, 1 1/16 Mile Turf) — he sits off the early speed and gets the run of the race late; the LP tilt backs him in any close call on this sheet.

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