2024 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets for Saturday's race

Saturday is Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., and Race 5 will be the 2024 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes. West Coast invader Motorious has been installed as the 7-2 favorite in the Turf Sprint odds. The Charlie Appleby-trained Mischief Magic is the 4-1 second choice in the Turf Sprint field. Post time for the $600,000 race is 12:36 p.m. ET.

With the Turf Sprint's large and wide-open field making for a head-scratching handicapping puzzle, you'll want to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and analyst Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2024 Turf Sprint 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 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 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.

She enters Saturday on a roll. She correctly called National Treasure to win the Pegasus World Cup. In the last month, 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. And less than 24 hours ago, she hit the exacta in the Kentucky Oaks.

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

One surprise: Yu is high on Eamonn, even though he is a longshot at 12-1. "He is certainly game and has come a long way since being a $35,000 claimer," Yu told SportsLine.

Moreover, Yu's top pick is a horse who has a "very flashy turn of foot." She also is high on a big double-digit longshot who "has a big 2024 headed his way." She is including these horses in her 2024 Turf Sprint bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see her picks before locking in any of your own.

So who wins the 2024 Turf Sprint? Which double-digit longshot is a must-back? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2024 Turf Sprint picks and see which longshot hits the board, all from the racing insider who has been on fire!