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    Racing insider and Saratoga expert offers picks for 2020 Whitney Stakes

    Saratoga Springs-based handicapper Bob Weir has had multiple five-figure days at the track. He just revealed his top picks for Saturday's Whitney Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
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    A small but quality field of five horses comes together on Saturday for one of the top races for older horses, the 2020 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. The Al Stall-trained Tom's d'Etat is the 6-5 morning-line favorite and post time is 5:42 p.m. ET.

    Before you make any 2020 Whitney picks, you NEED to see what Bob Weir, who hit the early Pick 4 at Saratoga on Thursday, 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.

    And this year, his first for SportsLine, Weir has been on fire. In January, he crushed the Pegasus World Cup, giving out an $8 exacta and a $1 trifecta, winning $757.60. He nailed the late Pick 4 at Gulfstream Park on both April 9 and April 10, hitting for $827.65 and $394.65. On June 13, Weir hit a $2 superfecta in the Ogden Phipps Stakes that paid a whopping $1,039. And 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. Those are just some of his hits this year.

    Anyone who has followed Weir this year is WAY UP.

    Now, Weir has handicapped the 2020 Whitney field, made his picks and constructed his bets. 

    One shocker: Weir is fading Tom's d'Etat, even though he's the 6-5 favorite and one of the top horses in the world. "At around even money, it's worth considering other horses," Weir told SportsLine. None of Weir's wagers will have Tom's d'Etat on top.

    Instead, Weir is high on a horse who "has a chance to turn the tables!" This horse could light up the tote board on Saturday. Weir is including this horse in all of his exactas, trifectas and superfectas, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY need to see which horse it is before locking in any picks!

    Who wins the 2020 Whitney Stakes? And which horses should you target in your exactas, trifectas, and superfectas? ... Join SportsLine right here to get the top Whitney Stakes picks and bets, all from the Saratoga-based racing insider who has been on fire this year!

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    SportsLine Staff

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