How to bet the 2026 Shuvee Stakes

A classy field of seven will travel 1 1/8 miles over the main surface at Saratoga in Friday’s $250,000 Shuvee (G2). It is very difficult to look past morning-line choice #4 Scottish Lassie (9-5) for trainer Jorge Abreu, and I will key her on top in my plays. 

Shuvee Wagers

• $12 trifecta 4 with 3 with 1,5 ($24)
• $3 trifecta key 4 with 1,3,5 ($18)

By McKinzie, the four-year-old has won her last two races at The Spa by a combined 23 1/2 lengths, led by a sensational 15-length romp in Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) last summer. The dark bay filly is a two-time Grade-1 heroine with good early speed and an obvious affinity for the course, and she looked the part in her seasonal bow when blitzing an allowance field going seven panels here on June 7, as well. She’s also proven at the distance and will have the red-hot Jose Ortiz in the irons. 

#3 Fully Subscribed (2-1) has been runner-up in a pair of Grade 1 events in succession to commence 2026 and has to be given a long look in the affair. One of two in the field for trainer Chad Brown, the Tiz the Law four-year-old has never finished out of the money from seven lifetime tries in advance of Friday, and she gets a pass for her latest when she ran into the buzzsaw named Nitrogen in the Ogden Phipps (G1) last time out. The four-year-old chestnut is a natural nine-furlong filly who might peak third off the layoff, and she will be stalking the action early with Flavien Prat taking the reins. 

The Danny Gargan-trained #1 Snowyte (6-1) has been getting progressively stronger in her races as of late and comes off a clear second in the Top Flight H. at Aqueduct in March. The $750,000 daughter of Good Magic can be very good on her best days, and if she receives the right type of voyage under Luis Saez, then I could envision her earning a placing in her second local appearance. 

#5 Bless the Broken (7-2) finished in a dead heat for second in the Ogden Phipps last time while making her first run for trainer Brad Cox, who is pushing a lot of the right buttons at the current meeting. The $950,000 November purchase is a stakes victress with four Grade-1 placings, and the four-year-old could get a nice setup if the early ones knock heads on the backside of the nine-furlong tilt. Irad will be up.