by ITM Staff
ITM Telegraph — Sunday, May 31, 2026
Your daily briefing on what to watch, read, and bet from In The Money Media and the world of horse racing.
🐎 Today’s Racing
🔴 LIVE AT 11 AM ET: Mikee P’s Sunday Spot Plays — Mikee P is joined by Chris Cupples and Ryan Anderson live on the ITM YouTube channel with free spot plays for today’s racing across the country. Tune in before first post and get your tickets built.
👉 Monmouth Park Full Card Analysis (Sunday) — Eric Solomon
The man who put $21.60 Cliff Hanger winner Neat on top yesterday is back with full analysis for Sunday’s card, highlighted by the Serena’s Song Stakes. Eric goes race-by-race with selections, pace reads, and betting angles for the entire eight-race program.
👉 Santa Anita Selections & Analysis (Sunday) — Dean Keppler
Keppler’s Best Bet: Queen Maxima (Race 9). Full card selections and commentary for all races — Dean digs into a Sunday card that features some sneaky value spots in the middle of the program.
👉 Laurel Park Tips and Trips (Sunday) — Will Humphrey
Selections, trip notes, and Horses to Follow for the full Sunday card. Will’s Saturday upgrades are always worth tracking into the next day’s analysis — check which runners he’s flagging as improvers this week.
🎯 ITM Plus — Belmont + Saratoga Deal
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📊 Saturday Results: ITM Handicappers Deliver
There were some excellent results for ITM handicappers on Saturday — take your pick as far as headlines go.
Drew Coatney’s bankroll play clicked. He put $50 to win on Maycocks Bay in the Eclipse Stakes (G2) at Woodbine — documented on the pod before the races were even run — collected approximately $102, then rolled into Possiblemente (the horse he memorably mispronounced as “Possible Mate”) in the Jacques Cartier (G3), who paid $10.90 to win. Drew turned $50 into roughly $559 across two win bets.
Meanwhile at Monmouth, Eric Solomon got $21.60 back for every $2 when Neat won the Cliff Hanger on top. Biggest price top-pick winner of the day across all four tracks.
Mikee P and Chris Cupples went 3-for-6 in graded stakes top picks at Churchill on Stephen Foster Preview Day. Splendora ($4.78) took the Shawnee, Cornucopian ($3.56) held off Roll On Big Joe in the Aristides, and Lagynos ($7.18) made it four in a row with a smooth stalk-and-pounce in the Arlington.
We pride ourselves on giving away our best information free — but if you want bonus content like email digests of the picks from all the shows, extra analysis, and Belmont week coverage that goes deeper than anything else out there, make sure you sign up for ITM Plus. It’s a great way to support what we’re doing here at ITM, and this is a particularly good time with the special we have going: sign up before Belmont day and get an extra month FREE — meaning all of our July Saratoga content is included. One month gets you two.
🏇 Belmont Week Is Here
The post-position draw is tomorrow, Monday, June 1 at 5 PM ET. Tuesday’s Telegraph will have the full draw analysis, updated odds, and early pace reads. Post time for the Belmont Stakes is 7:04 PM ET on Saturday, June 6, live on FOX.
🎙️ From ITM: The Owner’s Box with Lynn Hancock
The Owner’s Box Episode 198 — Lynn Hancock joins Billy and Michelle for a conversation that covers five generations of the Hancock family in the thoroughbred business, from her great-great-grandfather’s Civil War injury to the founding of Claiborne to her father Arthur III starting Stone Farm on 100 leased acres. Lynn talks about the $17,000 buyback that turned into Sunday Silence, how she evaluates yearlings (“if they stand up quick, they’re athletic”), the one-third rule for stallion fee budgeting, and her nomination to the Breeders’ Cup Board of Directors. Plus: her dad’s book Dark Horses and why Bourbon County is not prime dating territory.
📺 ICYMI: This Week on ITM
Tom Durkin: “A Life’s Calling” — PTF sits down with the legendary caller to talk about his new memoir. The Highway 41 lie, the 1987 Breeders’ Cup Classic that nearly ended his career, and his all-time favorite call. Watch here — and drop your favorite Durkin call in the comments.
Donna Brothers: Embrace the Belmont III — Donna rejoins PTF for her first visit since retiring from NBC. She previews Tuesday’s event at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga (5:00–7:30 PM, tickets at THSaratoga.org). Watch here.
PTF & Nick Tammaro: Early Belmont Thoughts — The pace scenario is shaping up exactly as they predicted, with Pletcher now confirming contrasting styles for Renegade and Powershift. Watch here.
The ITM Telegraph publishes daily through Belmont week. Tomorrow: post-position draw analysis, updated odds, and pace projections.
