Top Pick: #7 Rhetorical (2-1) - This 5-year-old gelding has raced four times at Saratoga, winning three times. The last time out, Rhetorical won the Grade 1 Turf Classic Stakes by 3 1/4-lengths, the sixth win in nine starts. Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. pointed out this horse is "a fighter" and will be atop again.
2nd Pick: #5 Deterministic (7-2) - Deterministic has won five in a row, three of them at Saratoga. Two were Grade 1s, winning the Fourstardave Handicap and the Manhattan Stakes. At the Fourstardave Handicap, Deterministic tracked the pacesetter into the stretch before roaring past to secure his second straight Grade 1 win.
3rd Pick: #6 Bright Picture (3-1) - Bright Picture finished second the last time out at 6-to-1 in his first Grade 1 race, the Prix Ganay Stakes in France, finishing behind heavy favorite Daryz. Bright Picture closed from last to finish second and has Flavien Prat for this one.