Pick for Sunday August 4, 2024



Adirondack Stakes
6 1/2 Furlongs | Fillies | 2 Year Olds | G3 STAKES | Purse: $200,000


Track: Saratoga

Surface: Dirt

Race: 9


Horse: White Sands (ML 3-1)


Field (in post position order):

1. Whatintheliteral (ML 8-1)
2. Italian Soiree (ML 9-2)
3. Atomic City (ML 8-1)
4. Dare to Breeze (ML 8-1)
5. Social Fortress (ML 6-1)
6. Aguas de Cristal (ML 12-1)
7. Anakarina (ML 12-1)
8. White Sands (ML 3-1)
9. The Queens M G (ML 7-2)



Last time we saw White Sands in action was on July 6, 2024, in the Prairie Meadows Juvenile Stakes at Prairie Meadows, in which, she trounced a good group of colts by 13 3/4 lengths.

Yes, that is right: 13 3/4 lengths.

Very impressive!



Here is an excerpt of what I wrote almost a month ago about that race:



Did anyone see the Prairie Meadows Juvenile Stakes race on Saturday night July 6, 2024?

Wow! -- it was a very impressive performance put in by a filly named White Sands, beating a good group of colts by winning it by 13 3/4 lengths.

Yes, that is right: A filly beating a good group of colts, including two highly regarded colts: The even money 2yo colt named Mission First trained by local Prairie Meadows trainer B. Hawthorne, and the equally highly regarded 2yo colt and 5/2 third choice named Complex Music trained by Steve Asmussen.

White Sands is a daughter of Into Mischief out of Unicorn Girl, by A. P. Five Hundred, and she is owned by John Magnier and Paul Shanahan and trained by Wesley A. Ward.

White Sands - the only filly in the race - was sent off as an 8/5 second choice behind the 1/1 favorite Mission First.

She just exploded right out of the gate the fastest of all to set the pace 22:18 for the quarter, 45:18 for the half, 57:38 for five furlongs, as she finished the five-and-one-half furlongs in a quick 1:04:18 while being geared down.

Yes, that is right: geared down -- very impressive.

A potential star in the making!

It looks to be the Grade 2 $200,000 Adirondack Stakes on August 4 at Saratoga is her possible next race.

She looks to be Wesley Ward's best 2yo at this point.

I don't have the Beyer Speed Figure as of this writing.

[Update: August 4, 2024: White Sands earned Beyer Speed Figure of 72 for her race on July 6, 2024.]


AS YOU CAN SEE I WAS SPOT ON IN PREDICTING WHITE SANDS' NEXT RACE, WHICH IS ADIRONDACK STAKES FOR 2YO FILLIES.

NOW IT'S HER TIME TO MAKE ME LOOK EVEN BETTER BY WINNING THE ADIRONDACK STAKES THIS SUNDAY AUGUST 4, 2024.

MAYBE WHAT I SHOULD'VE SAID WAS THAT IT'S HER TIME TO MAKE MY WALLET FATTER THIS SUNDAY AUGUST 4, 2024!


Thus far White Sands has shown the way through a pair of 5 1/2-furlong sprints by a combined 23 1/4 lengths.

She romped to a 9 1/2-length debut score in May at Belterra Park and followed last out with a 13 3/4-length victory over males in the Prairie Gold Juvenile on July 6 at Prairie Meadows.

White Sands is a half-sister to 2021 champion male sprinter Jackie's Warrior, who won 5 of 6 starts at Saratoga led by Grade 1 wins in 2020 Hopeful, the 2021 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial, and the 2022 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap.

Bred in Kentucky by Newstead Corporation, White Sands is out of the 19-time winning A. P. Five Hundred mare Unicorn Girl, who is a half-sister to graded-stakes-placed Richard the Great, multiple stakes winner Bernie the Maestro and stakes winners Reaper and Turbo.

As I stated in the excerpt that White Sands is by far Wesley Ward's best 2yo thus far this year and nothing is going to change that (in my opinion).



So bet White Sands (ML 3-1) to win and place using double down betting strategy and you should be going home as a winner.

Put some considerable amount of money on White Sands to win and place to make it worthwhile and justified going to the racetrack.

White Sands' final odd will most likely be right around 9/5 as a favorite in the betting.

Take this easy money 3/1 (or at whatever the price is -- 9/5 is my guess) and leave the racetrack as a winner.