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Wednesday, June 10, 2026  |  Monmouth Pick Your Prize Week  |  Royal Ascot Countdown

By ITM Staff

Post-Triple Crown: 2026 Three-Year-Old Top 10

Now that the Triple Crown is over, PTF and JK sit down with Eric DeCoster’s updated Top 10 three-year-old rankings. Does Golden Tempo — dual Classic winner, never cracked 100 on the Beyer scale — merit the top spot? JK makes the case for Englishman at #1. Essential post-Belmont viewing.

Pick Your Prize Preview — John Gaspar & JK

John Gaspar welcomes defending Pick Your Prize champion JK for a full contest strategy breakdown ahead of Saturday. JK on how he handicaps, how he builds a bankroll, and why he doesn’t mind being the one everyone is chasing. Required viewing before you register.

Note: JK’s video freezes around 8 minutes in — audio is fine throughout.

Tonight — Horseshoe Indianapolis Stakes

Ryan Anderson and Jackson Muniz have the Horseshoe Indianapolis state-bred stakes card for Wednesday. Two races to focus on — and they landed on the same horse in both.

Nysos — Coolmore Buys In, Ashford Stud 2027

The big post-Belmont news: Coolmore partners Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith officially announced June 8 they have purchased an interest in Metropolitan Handicap (G1) winner Nysos and will race him in partnership with Baoma Corporation through the 2026 Breeders’ Cup before he retires to stand at Ashford Stud. The 5-year-old son of Nyquist won the Met Mile by four lengths in 1:34.85 — just off the track record — and is now 8-2-0 in 10 starts with earnings of $5,288,500.

Coolmore’s Charlie O’Connor: “This is a real stallion-making race. He’ll end up in our stallion barn in Ashford, and we’re very excited.” Bob Baffert: “What a talented horse. I always thought he’s one of the best older horses in training and today he showed it.” Baoma co-owner Susan Chu: “He means far more to us than exceptional racing success. Through him, we have learned patience and perseverance.”

Nysos will continue racing through the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland (Oct. 30-31) before retiring. The same Coolmore ownership group also has a stake in Met Mile show finisher Journalism — so they’re playing both sides of one of the summer’s most interesting rivalries. With a 109 Beyer in the Met Mile and Coolmore now in the mix, Nysos is going to command serious attention all summer long heading toward the BC Dirt Mile.

CAW Handle Drops at Belmont Festival — And That’s Good News

Total handle at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival rose year-over-year, even as computer-assisted wagering play plummeted — a direct result of the guardrails NYRA put in place to limit CAW participation in certain pools.

That combination is precisely what the industry should be rooting for. CAW operators typically negotiate reduced takeout rates, meaning every dollar of CAW handle generates significantly less revenue for the track than a dollar of retail handle. A pool that shrinks in CAW volume but grows in total size is almost certainly generating more actual revenue than a larger pool dominated by computers — and producing better payouts for the horseplayers left in it.

The industry has spent decades obsessing over handle as the headline metric. But handle is a vanity number if a growing share of it is being taken at reduced rates by algorithmic players who return nothing to the ecosystem. Revenue — what the track actually keeps — is the number that matters. The Belmont Festival results suggest the guardrails are working on both counts: more money for the track, better prices for retail players. That’s a model worth replicating.

Royal Ascot — Six Days Away

Royal Ascot runs June 16-20, live on NBC and Peacock. PTF will be there covering for the World Feed and Sky Sports. Eric DeCoster, Steven Bonnick, Alex Sausville, and Andrew Harman will contribute throughout the week. Rob Dove — one of the top 10 pro punters in the UK — provides tips and analysis exclusively on ITM Plus.