2026 Pat Day Mile odds, horses, field: Racing insider offers best bets, top picks for Saturday

Two undefeated rising 3-year-old stars will square off with a possible start in the Preakness Stakes on the horizon when the starting gate opens for the 2026 Pat Day Mile on Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. The Bob Baffert-trained Crude Velocity and the Cherie DeVaux-trained Englishman are both 2-for-2 in their careers. For Saturday Crude Velocity has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorite in the Pat Day Mile odds, just ahead of Englishman (3-1). Trouble Calling (5-1), Crown the Buckeye (6-1) and Creole Chrome (8-1) round out the top five choices among the 11 Pat Day Mile horses. Post time for the $750,000 race is 3:23 p.m. ET. 

With several talented runners set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you NEED to see what Santa Anita-based racing reporter and insider Michelle Yu has to say before making any 2026 Pat Day Mile picks, considering what she did last year.

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 four years ago, she suggested a play on All Other 3-Year-Olds, which cashed at a whopping 18-1 when Rich Strike won.

She started off 2025 by correctly going all-in on Citizen Bull to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, and she also predicted Forever Young's win in the Saudi Cup, Journalism's win in the San Felipe Stakes, Sandman's win in the Arkansas Derby, Good Cheer's win in the Kentucky Oaks and Mindframe's win in the Churchill Downs Stakes. She also hit the exacta in the Kentucky Derby.

In August she hit the Fierceness-Journalism exacta in the Pacific Classic, and just last month she nailed the Renegade-Silent Tactic-Taptastic trifecta in the Arkansas Derby.

For the 2026 Pat Day Mile, Yu has made her picks and constructed her bets. Yu's top pick is a horse who has "loads of talent." She is including this horse in her 2026 Pat Day Mile bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see her picks before locking in any of your own!

So which horse wins the 2026 Pat Day Mile? And how has Yu constructed her wagers? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Michelle Yu's 2026 Pat Day Mile picks and bets, all from the racing insider who nailed this race last year!