{"id":7616,"date":"2010-09-04T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2010-09-04T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T13:01:15","slug":"nationwide-series-great-clips-300-woodward-stakes-at-saratoga-race-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/nationwide-series-great-clips-300-woodward-stakes-at-saratoga-race-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Series Great Clips 300, Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not all NCAA Football Odds<\/a> betting Saturday. Super sportsbook Bodog<\/a> knows that football sports services<\/a> have the winning picks, but there is also auto and horse racing.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s (G1) $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course has Todd Pletcher trained Quality Road (and jockey John Velazquez) as the 1-4 morning line favorite. Breaking from the No. 1 post, though, is Convocation, 6-1 on the morning line and the only likely candidate to challenge the favorite for the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big pot, Grade 1, you got a horse in shape you might as well take a shot then,\u201d said Jimmy Jerkens, Convocation\u2019s current trainer and Quality Road former trainer. \u201cQuality Road, as great as he is, is coming off for him a dismal effort. Knowing him I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll bounce back, but if not maybe we\u2019ll be there to pick up the pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird will break from the No. 2 post, while the No. 3 post belongs to Quality Road.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Quality Road proved victorious in the Hal\u2019s Hope, Donn Handicap and Metropolitan Handicap, but a win in the Woodward would be wonderful.<\/p>\n

Post-time for Saturday\u2019s Woodward Stakes is 5:50 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n

The favorite heading into Sunday\u2019s $300,000 (G2) Del Mar Derby for 3-year-olds is Twirling Candy, a pretty sweet name for a horse owned by weight loss queen Jenny Craig (Craig Family Trust). Jockey Joel Rosario will ride Twirling Candy for trainer John Sadler from the No. 6 post.<\/p>\n

Once again, the weekend\u2019s hottest race tracks are at Del Mar and Saratoga and as always \u2014 Bodog\u2019s got the coolest horse racing action.<\/p>\n

The Nationwide Series continues on NASCAR Bodog odds<\/a> Saturday with the Great Clips 300. This week, Kyle Busch finds himself atop the Bodog auto racing odds at 7\/4.<\/p>\n

Busch is third in the Nationwide standings after winning at Bristol in his last start. Incredibly, it was Busch\u2019s 10th<\/sup> victory in 20 races this season. He\u2019s been pure dynamite lately, too, winning four of his last six outings and never finishing worse than fifth in that span. Obviously, Bodog has it right when it makes Busch the overwhelming favorite. In fact, Busch hasn\u2019t finished worse than seventh since a 34th<\/sup>-place finish at Talladega in April.<\/p>\n

Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano each clock in with 9\/2 NASCAR odds. Keselowski leads the standings but has started five more races than Busch. Still, he\u2019s been quite strong, earning 21 finishes in the Top-10, including four victories. Keselowski placed fourth in Montreal last week.<\/p>\n

Logano has started just 17 races this season, but he\u2019s been competitive in all of them, finishing among the Top-10 in 16 races and the Top-5 in nine races. He has just one win, however, and finished sixth in Montreal last week.<\/p>\n

Up next is Kevin Harvick \u2013 ranked sixth in the Nationwide standings \u2014 with 6\/1 odds. He\u2019s been incredibly solid if unspectacular, racking up 17 finishes among the Top-10 in his 19 starts. He\u2019s also poured in another 10 finishes among the Top-5. That said, he could use a little more \u201cboom\u201d \u2014 Harvick has earned just two victories this season. The U.S. Coast Guard driver came in 10th<\/sup> in his last race (the Carfax 250 at Michigan) but managed to secure Top-3 finishes in his two starts before that.<\/p>\n

Also keep an eye on Carl Edwards, who has 8\/1 odds. Edwards ranks second in the Nationwide standings but finished just 20th<\/sup> in Montreal. That said, he finished fifth and second, respectively, in his two starts before that.<\/p>\n

Get all of today\u2019s top sports picks<\/a> are up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not all NCAA Football Odds betting Saturday. Super sportsbook Bodog knows that football sports services have the winning picks, but there is also auto and horse racing. Saturday\u2019s (G1) $750,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course has Todd Pletcher trained Quality Road (and jockey John Velazquez) as the 1-4 morning line favorite. Breaking from … Continue reading Nationwide Series Great Clips 300, Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7618,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions\/7618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}