{"id":326640,"date":"2025-08-08T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:30:14","slug":"the-grade-2-ballston-spa-stakes-at-saratoga-picks-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326640\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga: Picks and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_tvfw3m4r7\">Friday&#8217;s DRF Race of the Day is Saratoga\u2019s 8th race, the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes. Post Time is scheduled for 5:12 p.m. ET. Handicappers David Aragona and Mike Beer analyze the race and share their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_e22sdqffs\">Want to go deeper on today\u2019s featured race?  <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_1jqcra4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drf.com\/race-of-the-day?utm_source=si&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=raceoftheday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View FREE DRF Past Performances for today\u2019s Race of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_c55hxi5q4\">Need help making your picks? Ask DRFai, your AI-powered racing assistant. Just type in your questions and get instant insights. <a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_1jqcra4\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.drf.com\/?utm_source=si&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=raceoftheday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Try it now at chat.drf.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s DRF Race of the Day is Saratoga\u2019s 8th race, the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes. Post Time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-326640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990561613163191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}