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2025 Fair Grounds morning line odds: Racing writer gives picks for the late Pick 5 for Saturday, Feb. 15

Two weeks after crushing the Holy Bull Stakes for $422.50, SportsLine horse racing writer Gene Menez has made his picks for Saturday

Saturday is Risen Star Stakes day at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, and the late Pick 5 begins with the Albert M. Stall Memorial Stakes at 5:30 p.m. ET and ends with the Risen Star Stakes . Before you make any picks, you NEED to know how SportsLine writer Gene Menez, who crushed the late Pick 4 on Breeders' Cup Saturday, has handicapped the sequence.

A former reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated, Menez covered an array of sports, including horse racing, for the magazine and its website for almost 14 years. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as SI's handicapper for the Triple Crown races and correctly predicted Super Saver to win the Kentucky Derby in 2010.

In 2015, while writing for Sports on Earth, Menez accurately gave out the Kentucky Derby superfecta (American Pharoah, Firing Line, Dortmund and Frosted), which paid $1,268.20 for $2. Then in 2017, he tweeted out his Kentucky Derby picks, including Always Dreaming to win, and hit the Pick 4, which paid almost $6,900 on a $1 bet.

In May of last year, Menez gave out 18-1 Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby. In November, he crushed the late Pick 4 on Breeders' Cup Saturday for a $5,303 score! And just last week he hit the winner and exacta in the Holy Bull Stakes for a $422.50 payday. Anyone who followed his lead could have been way up.

For Saturday, Menez has handicapped the late Pick 5 at Fair Grounds, made his picks and constructed his tickets.

We can tell you that Menez is high on Good Cheer, the 6-5 favorite in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, the fourth leg of the Pick 5. "The scratches from this race will make Good Cheer a strong favorite," Menez told SportsLine. Good Cheer is Menez's top pick in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes.

In addition, Menez is high on a double-digit longshot on Saturday. This horse "should be sitting on a career-best race" and could spice up the Pick 5. Menez is including this longshot on his tickets, and so should you. You NEED to see Menez's analysis before making any Pick 5 selections.

So which double-digit longshot can win? And how has Menez constructed his Pick 5 tickets? ... Join SportsLine now to get Pick 5 selections at Fair Grounds for Saturday, all from the horse racing writer who gave out Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby, crushed the late Pick 4 on Breeders' Cup Saturday for $5,303 and just hit the Holy Bull Stakes for a $422.50 payday!

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