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This Saturday, at Travers Stakes and the Grade I King’s Bishop Stakes.

The Grade I Travers Stakes, which goes off as race 9 on the 12 race card, features betting line on Street Sense figures to be around 4/5, if not lower, and the reason for horse racing bettors to pay attention to this race has nothing to do with Street Sense.

It has everything to do with Tiz Wonderful, who figures to go off at odds of 10 to 1 or higher in the Travers. Tiz Wonderful, 2006’s summer book Kentucky Derby favorite before an injury halted his progress, ran last out of six in July’s Jim Dandy at Saratoga. That was Tiz Wonderful’s first race in over a year. The colt’s trainer, Steve Asmussen, acknowledges that Tiz Wonderful wasn’t ready for the Jim Dandy and should be much “tighter” for the Travers.

If Tiz Wonderful brings his A-game, expect Street Sense to have a tussle on his hands. Tiz Wonderful’s daddy, Tiznow, is the only two-time winner of the Breeder’s Cup Classic and his son is a spitting image of him. Before his injury, Tiz Wonderful was undefeated and showed the tough attitude it takes for a horse to win high profile races.

From a wagering stand-point, the odds always dictate which horse you want to plunk your money down on. Tiz Wonderful may be the only real wager in the Travers as the other horses challenging Street Sense really have no chanceagainst the Kentucky Derby winner.

The betting line on the Travers points to only one possible wager - - a win bet on Tiz Wonderful.

The favorite in the King’s Bishop, on the other hand, will most likely be tough-trying, and regally bred Hard Spun who finished second to Street Sense in the Kentucky Derby. The reasons to go against Hard Spun are numerous, the most obvious of which is that the horse is going from two turn races to this one turn sprint.

Expect the betting line on Hard Spun to be somewhat close to what you will get on Street Sense - - 4 to 5 or lower. That means that Hard Spun is a bad wager. How about a wager on EZ Warrior, Teuflesberg, or King of The Roxy?

All three have legitimate chances to win the King’s Bishop and all three will be going off at higher horseracing betting odds than Hard Spun.

In any case, watch both races as many of the horses running in both the Travers and King’s Bishop will run in the Breeder’s Cup in the fall.

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