America’s Best Racing and handicapper (and avid gambler) Monique Vág team up to provide horseplayers with their best bets of the weekend.

Vág will identify her top picks as well as at least one longshot play of the weekend, a nice opportunity to swing for the fences on a win bet or to take a shot with a show bet. She also will occasionally look for strong exacta plays for the weekend or try to spot a nice opportunity for other wagers.

This Weekend’s Bets

The $175,000, Grade 2 Bessarabian Stakes Saturday brings together a strong field of nine fillies and mares running seven furlongs on the all-weather Tapeta surface at Woodbine. All of them finished third or better in their most recent races, with five emerging victorious in those starts over the past two months.