Here are my top five horses in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park as well as my percentage to win the race.
Giant
Mischief
This
Kentucky-bred colt is trained by Brad Cox and raced at Indiana Downs, Keeneland
and Remington Park as a two-year old. He placed second in the Remington Springboard
Mile on Dec. 17. Wildatlanticstorm won that event with Echo Again coming in
third. Giant Mischief will be making his three-year old debut at Oaklawn Parks in
the Rebel Stakes starting at No. 5 with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr.
Sired by Into
Mischief, he was bred to go more than a mile on dirt with speed on the backstretch.
Giant Mischief has raced for Spendthrift Farm, Stonestreet Stables and Steve
Landers Racing.
Odds of
Winning: 40%
Reincarnate
Trained by Tim
Yakteen and ridden by jockey John Velazquez, Reincarnate is starting in the No.
6 gate at Oaklawn for this race. On Jan. 8 at Santa Anita Park, he won the 2023
Sham Stakes in one mile by posting a time of 1:35.87 over Newgate and National
Treasure. Reincarnate has finished first or second place in his early career.
He raced at Del Mar and Santa Anita in California before coming to Oaklawn Park
in Arkansas.
His races have
all been a mile or over on dirt and turf since he place second at Del Mar in a
one-mile Maiden Special Weight event. Reincarnate has the pedigree to be one of
the leaders in the backstretch in the Rebel Stakes this Saturday.
Odds of
Winning: 35%
Confidence
Game
With Keith Desormeaux
as trainer and James Graham as the jockey in the No. 7 gate of the Rebel
Stakes, this three-year colt has a chance to finish in the money. Confidence
Game was third in the 2023 Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds behind Instant
Coffee and Two Phil’s on Jan. 21. He won his last race as a two-year old at
Churchill Downs in a 1 1/16 miles Allowance on Nov. 26.
As a son of
Candy Ride, he has gone 1 1/16 miles in his last four races. Confidence Game also
should be one of the leaders down the stretch in the Rebel Stakes.
Odds of Winning::
15%
Powerful
The colt was
also bred in Kentucky and he raced for Cortlandt Farms (Donald Adam). He
finished first at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26 in the ungraded Ed Brown Stakes after
taking 11th in the Grade 1 Breeds’ Futurity at Keeneland on Oct. 8. Powerful
is posted at No. 2 for the Rebel Stakes in his first race of his three-year
career. Steve Asmussen in the trainer and Isaac Castillo is the jockey.
Odds of
Winning: 5%
Verifying
Breaking in the
No. 1 gate, Verifying is trained by Brad Cox and ridden by jockey Florent
Geroux. Sired by Justify, he won his first race as a three-year old in a one mile
Allowance at Oaklawn on Jan. 14. He finished six in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
at Keeneland on Nov. 4 after placed second in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at
Aqueduct on Oct. 1. Verifying has a chance to finish in the money in this race
if he gets off to a good start.
Odds of
Winning: 5%
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