2024 Gamely Stakes odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for Memorial Day race

The Leonard Powell-trained Anisette will try to win her third career Grade 1 race when she leaves the starting gate in the 2024 Gamely Stakes on Memorial Day at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. Bred in Great Britain, Anisette won both the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks and American Oaks last year. For Monday, she has been installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the Gamely Stakes odds. Four other horses in the nine-horse field are 6-1 or shorter. Post time is 8 p.m. ET.

With several accomplished horses set to enter the starting gate on Memorial Day, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and analyst Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2024 Gamely Stakes picks. Join SportsLine here to see whom she's picking.

Few people in racing are as well-connected as Yu. An on-air host and reporter who has provided racing analysis for TVG, HRTV and the Breeders' Cup, Yu has spent a lifetime in racing. Prior to her television career, she worked for trainers Steve Asmussen and Ron Moquett. She also is married to Santa Anita-based trainer Ryan Hanson.

Yu also has tremendous handicapping chops. In a wide-open Kentucky Derby in 2021, she gave out Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first, as the winner at 12-1. In Pool 5 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager two years ago, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won the Derby.

She enters this year's Gamely Stakes on a roll. She correctly called National Treasure to win the Pegasus World Cup. In the last two months, she predicted Stronghold's upset win in the Santa Anita Derby, en route to a $219.50 payday, and smashed the exacta in the Apple Blossom Handicap as part of a $410 score.

For the 2024 Gamely Stakes, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. Join SportsLine here to see them!

One surprise: Yu's top pick is not Anisette, even though she is the 5-2 favorite. "She's all class, with two wins at the top level, but will need to reel in some classy leaders and will face elders," Yu told SportsLine.

Instead, Yu's top pick is a horse whose "form is solid." She is including this horse in her 2024 Gamely Stakes bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

So who wins the Gamely Stakes? What does Yu think of every horse in the race? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2024 Gamely Stakes picks, all from the Santa Anita Park-based racing insider!