Wednesday’s Best Bets and Quick Picks: Reining Flowers can upset 2025 debut

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares best bets and quick picks for a trio of stakes on Wednesday, May 14 at Horseshoe Indianapolis, including a 15-1 longshot.

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Best Bets and Quick Picks

Horseshoe Indianapolis: Race 6: Swifty Sired Fillies H. (5 1/2 furlongs on dirt, 4:45 p.m. ET)

#10 Molly’s Potion (4-5) is a Brisnet Speed rating standout in this field of Indiana-bred three-year-old fillies. Her three sprint starts have yielded improving Brisnet Speed ratings of 70, 72, and 79, whereas none of her Wednesday rivals have ever posted a number higher than 68.

Molly’s Potion was tons the best in the six-furlong Indiana Stallion S. over this track last year, winning by eight lengths, and she started 2025 with a solid runner-up finish in an allowance against older horses. Returning to the three-year-old ranks for her second start of the year should make Molly’s Potion mighty tough to defeat.

Let’s single her to start a double wager.

Selections

• #10 Molly’s Potion (4-5)
• #9 Innisfree Lass (12-1)
• #5 Shesmyhuckleberry (12-1)

Wagers

• $20 Double: 10 with 5

Horseshoe Indianapolis: Race 7: Horseshoe Indianapolis H. (one mile on turf, 5:16 p.m. ET)

Last year, #5 Reining Flowers (15-1) broke her maiden at Saratoga, won a one-mile allowance at Keeneland, and hit the board in the P. G. Johnson S. and Tepin S. on the New York circuit. Those form lines suggest she’s a viable win threat an enticing odds while taking her game to Horseshoe Indianapolis.

A win bet is in order (be sure to capitalize on the Horseshoe Indianapolis 15% Odds Boost offer), and we’ll also single Reigning Flowers to end our double bet.

Selections

• #5 Reining Flowers (15-1)
• $4 Sigh No More (10-1)
• #6 Running Away (8-1)

Wagers

• $20 to win on #5 Reining Flowers

Horseshoe Indianapolis: Race 8: Caesars H. (one mile on turf, 5:47 p.m. ET)

#1 Chasing Liberty (8-5) has won a pair of stakes racing one mile on turf. He took the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance S. at Del Mar last fall over future Transylvania (G3) winner Test Score, then dominated the Jan. 25 Texas Turf Mile by 2 3/4 lengths.

Chasing Liberty is dropping in class off a fifth-place finish in the Transylvania and figures to find the competition a bit easier at Horseshoe Indianapolis. We suggest betting him over speedy Cecil B. DeMille (G3) winner #7 Clock Tower (5-2) in a cold exacta.

Selections

• #1 Chasing Liberty (8-5)
• #7 Clock Tower (5-2)
• #4 Discreet Dancer (6-1)

Wagers

• $20 Exacta: 1 with 7

Good luck!