In The Money Telegraph
Friday, July 24, 2026 · By ITM Staff
Tour Friday is here — and this week our feeder happens to ride shotgun with a $192,000 carryover. Here’s how to play both.
The Tour Feeder Is Live — Saratoga and Del Mar
Today’s In the Money HorsePlayers Tour feeder is on the board: $20, ten races, both coasts — Saratoga’s Races 7 through 10 alongside Del Mar’s Races 3 through 8. Two ways out: finish in the top 10% and you’re into tomorrow’s BCBC Qualifier with a $10,000 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge seat waiting at the end of it, or finish in the top four and you’re into the ITM Tour Playoffs, where another $10,000 seat goes to a player at no cost.
The house cut goes to Breeders’ Cup Charities, supporting the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, the Racetrack Chaplaincy of America, and the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. Seven Fridays down, 28 of the 68 Playoff spots claimed, forty still live.
PTF and Matt Bernier go through the contest races, including the Grade 2 Shuvee and the Rick Violette. ▶ Watch the preview →
A $192,793 Carryover at Del Mar — on the Same Races
Here’s a happy accident worth knowing about. Dean Keppler flags a two-day Pick 6 carryover of $192,793 at Del Mar today, and it begins in Race 3 — which means the carryover sequence runs Races 3 through 8. Those are precisely the six Del Mar races in today’s Tour feeder. Do your homework once, and it’s working for you twice: your contest card and your Pick 6 ticket cover the same ground.
Keppler has the full eight-race card, with 5-City Exile in Race 4 his best bet — a horse taking a sizable class drop and getting back to his preferred mile and an eighth. Read the card →
Heading to Del Mar This Weekend?
If live-money contests are your game and you’ll be at the seaside oval Saturday and Sunday, the Del Mar Summer Betting Challenge runs both days with an estimated $250,000 in prizes — and it’s not just cash. Seats to the 2026 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge and the 2027 National Horseplayers Championship are on the line too. It’s a $6,000 buy-in, on-track only, so you’ll need to be there.
PTF sat down with Dean Keppler to preview both the contest and Saturday’s Del Mar card. ▶ Watch → | Listen → | Contest details →
Tomorrow: Two Grade 1s
Saratoga. The Coaching Club American Oaks settles the argument between Kentucky Oaks winner Always A Runner and Acorn winner Counting Stars, level at a win apiece. PTF has the horse-by-horse guide for Sky Sports Racing and is swinging against both, siding with La Rascasse each-way, at approximately 5:45 p.m. ET. Read the guide →
Del Mar. The Grade 1 Bing Crosby (Race 10, 9:30 p.m. ET) is a “Win and You’re In” to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and it has split the ITM house three ways. PTF has the full horse-by-horse preview and sides with #3 Dr. Venkman — the logic being that a wall of speed up front should set the race up for a horse who can sit behind it, and nobody in the field loves Del Mar more: two wins, a third in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and his career-best figure all came over this track. Cornucopian is respected as the class and lands on most tickets. Read the preview →
Over on The Gallop Out, Ryan Anderson, Jackson Muniz, and Mikee P. build the whole late Pick 5 around it — and don’t agree either. Jackson is with PTF on Dr. Venkman, Mikee tops Cornucopian, and Ryan singles Listenupshance. When the house can’t settle on a race, that’s usually where the payoffs live. Watch →
Also Playing Today
Monmouth. A six-race Friday matinee at the Shore, first post 2:00 p.m. ET, with three on the turf and the rails all the way out at 36 feet. Eric Solomon has it, and there’s a nice thread running through the card: Jorge Vargas Jr., fresh off winning the Haskell, is back in the irons and riding with all the confidence that comes with a first Grade 1. Read →
NYRA Bets. Two more on the board at the Spa: a $40 game awarding seats into tomorrow’s seeded contest, and a $300 cash game. Tomorrow brings the big one — a $300 contest with a $2,500 seeded pool, plus an $80 feeder to the $1,000 Jim Dandy Challenge on Aug. 1. See the contests →
ITM Plus
Your Daily Edge at Saratoga and Del Mar
Nick Tammaro brings his Saratoga notebook to ITM Plus every day of the meet, and Adam Dempo joins with full-card Del Mar analysis — detailed written selections, a play of the day, and exclusive podcasts right through to the Breeders’ Cup.
More all weekend at inthemoneypodcast.com, with daily previews on the ITM YouTube channel and premium tips on ITM Plus.
