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    2021 Tampa Bay Derby morning-line odds, picks: Racing insider offers bet strategy for Saturday's race

    Sharp handicapper Bob Weir, who nailed the exacta in the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs last month, targets another Kentucky Derby prep race, the Tampa Bay Derby
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    A dozen three-year-olds will hit the starting gate on Saturday in the 2021 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs. Candy Man Rocket is the 2-1 favorite in the 2021 Tampa Bay Derby odds. Post time is at 5:25 p.m. ET.

    Before you make any Tampa Bay Derby picks, you NEED to see what racing insider Bob Weir has to say.

    Based in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Weir has been handicapping and following horse racing since reading Andy Beyer's landmark handicapping book "Picking Winners" in the late 1980s. Weir is highly invested in the Beyer Speed Figure, a number assigned to every race run by a horse that measures how fast the horse ran. He uses the figure as the backbone of his handicapping. In fact, thanks to his proficiency with speed figures and top-tier handicapping, he landed one of just eight spots on Beyer's figure-making team in 2017, a position he holds to this day.

    Weir's methodology has produced multiple five-figure days. In 2014, he hit a $60,000 Pick 6 at Del Mar. The following year, he nailed a $31,000 Pick 6 at Gulfstream Park. In 2016 and 2017, Weir qualified for the prestigious National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas!

    Last year, his first for SportsLine, Weir was on fire. In June, Weir hit a $2 superfecta in the Ogden Phipps Stakes that paid a whopping $1,039. He crushed the exacta and trifecta in the Forego Stakes in August for $1,134.50. He hit the late Pick 4 at Belmont Park on June 18, June 19, June 25, July 2 and July 5, with the June 25 score returning a whopping $2,159.50. Last month, he nailed the Candy Man Rocket-Nova Rags exacta in the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs! Anyone who has followed Weir is way up.

    Now, he has handicapped the 2021 Tampa Bay Derby field, made his picks and constructed his bets. 

    One shocker: Weir's top pick is not Candy Man Rocket, even though he is the 2-1 favorite. "His Beyer Speed Figure of 85 from that Sam F. Davis win is hardly imposing," Weir told SportsLine.

    Instead, Weir is high on a double-digit long shot who is "capable of hitting the board" and spicing up your exotics! Weir is including these horses in his exactas, trifectas and superfectas, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see which horses they are before locking in any picks.

    Who wins the 2021 Tampa Bay Derby? And which double-digit long shot is a MUST-BACK? ... Join SportsLine right now to get the top 2021 Tampa Bay Derby picks and bets, all from the racing insider who nailed the Sam F. Davis Stakes at the same track!

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    SportsLine Staff

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