Yesterday’s settled scorecard, and today’s free race.
Yesterday, settled — Friday, October 30, 2026
76
PICKS SETTLED
25
WINNERS
25-14-14
WIN-PLACE-SHOW
$152
$2 WIN BETS
$128.40
RETURNED
-15.5%
ROI
As filed (before scratches): 72 settled · 23 winners · $144 win bets → $115.80 · ROI -19.6%
Best Bet of the day: #5 Cajun Caviar (2/1) if the pace stays honest, #10 Bar Car (7/2) if the pace is controlled (Delta Downs Race 8) — the holds-up-front pick won — paid $3.20 to win ($2); the falls-apart pick finished out of the money
Biggest winner on the sheet: #1 Audi's World (9/5) if the pace is controlled (Woodbine Race 4, one pick — likelihood floor) — our one filed pick — the pace is controlled — won — paid $9.20 to win ($2) (likelihood floor)
Next Best: #5 Sucker for Looks (5/2) if the pace stays honest (Gulfstream Park Race 6, one pick — likelihood floor) — our one filed pick — the pace stays honest — ran third (likelihood floor); the race went to #2 Hammy — paid $7.40 to win
Featured play: #8 Day to Day (2/1) if the pace stays honest (Gulfstream Park Race 10, one pick — likelihood floor) — our one filed pick — the pace stays honest — finished out of the money (likelihood floor); the race went to #6 Super Sienna — paid $104.00 to win
4 scratched pick(s) settled on the filed backup — the pick that would have been filed had the scratches been known — and count in the scorecard.
1 pick(s) had no final official result on file when this was written and are not counted.
Scenario split — most likely scenario: 57 settled · 21 winners · ROI -9.8%; second scenario: 15 settled · 3 winners · ROI -53.3%. Winner was one of the pair in 23 of 57 races.
In the money: 53 of 76 pick legs (70%) finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
The 25 winners paid an average of $5.14 on a $2 win ticket.
Across the board: $2 win-place-show on every pick — $432 → $361.02 · ROI -16.4%.
▶ Gulfstream Park Race 10 · Oct 30 — the Cellars Shiraz Stakes: Super Sienna ($104.00) upset our featured play Day to Day · Gulfstream Park (YouTube)
Today’s free race
Keeneland — Race 12
Post 6:16 PM ET · Dirt · BCClasic-G1 1‚ Mile 3&up
If the pace stays honest (55%): #7 Knightsbridge (9/2)
William I Mott · Luis Saez
Knightsbridge files as slot 1 by the section 16 counter-move: the frozen formula's top horse in a marked race, replacing the standing-discipline slot 1 - the formula rides his OUR weight of 138 lb and a last-out finish of 1/11; on the pace graphs he sits #5 on the blended late graph (50), so this leg is the formula's call, filed exactly as section 16 directs
If the pace is controlled (45%): #5 Forever Young (2/1)
Yoshito Yahagi · Ryusei Sakai
Forever Young leads the blended late graph (84) among the forward group the controlled scenario leaves standing for Yoshito Yahagi/Ryusei Sakai; under a controlled pace the race runs through the horses positioned in front, and his finish is the strongest of that group
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