Get A Hunch, Bet A Bunch

While the big boys frolic in New York the Jockey Club Gold Cup simulcast most of the top local 3-year-olds are matched in the Playfair Breeders’ Cup.

Chippewa Warrior, with the aid of Lasix, the medication that controls respiratory bleeding, should prove he’s much better than his disappointing local debut. Don’t, however, discount Lingerhof, who has won half of his eight starts, or Rolling Eyes, who might have been the best horse when Lingerhof surprised in the City of Spokane Handicap.

Billy Club in fourth and Her Holiness in eighth look like they have found the right spot.

Here are today’s selections:

FIRST: $5 daily doubles pairing LAST OF THE GOLD with HONORABLE MOON, GO TO MAN and SHEMYA POPCORN ($15).

FOURTH: $10 to win on BILLY CLUB. Divide any winnings to win between WHIRL WITH ME in the fifth race and HER HOLINESS in the eighth.

FIFTH: $10 to win on WHIRL WITH ME. Parlay half of any winnings to HER HOLINESS in 10th.

EIGHTH: $10 to win on HER HOLINESS.

TENTH: $1 trifectas boxing CHIPPEWA WARRIOR, ROLLING E, LINGERHOF and IRISH NICK WISH.