2023 Jim Dandy Stakes morning-line odds, picks, post time: Racing insider offers betting strategy for Saturday's race

Reigning 2-year-old champion Forte will try to bounce back from just his second career defeat when he leaves the starting gate in the 2023 Jim Dandy Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. After being scratched from the Kentucky Derby and missing the Preakness Stakes, Forte finished second in the Belmont Stakes. He has been installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite in the 2023 Jim Dandy Stakes odds. Arkansas Derby winner Angel of Empire and the brilliantly fast Saudi Crown are the co-second choices, at 5-2. Disarm and Hit Show round out the five-horse Jim Dandy Stakes field, at 6-1. Post time is 5:45 p.m. ET. 

With several accomplished horses set to enter the starting gate on Saturday, you'll want to see what Saratoga Springs-based racing insider and Beyer Speed Figure maker Bob Weir has to say before making any Jim Dandy Stakes picks.

A member of the Beyer Speed Figure-making team, Weir is a two-time qualifier for the prestigious National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas. He has produced multiple five-figure days at the track over the years, including a $60,000 Pick 6 at Del Mar in 2014.

Last year he was red-hot in the Triple Crown prep races, hitting the superfecta in the Blue Grass Stakes for $1,678 and exactas in the Fountain of Youth Stakes and Tampa Bay Derby. He also hit the 19-1 winner of the Man o' War Stakes, the trifecta in the Pegasus World Cup, the superfecta in the Met Mile and multiple Pick 4s.

In April of this year, he hit a Pick 4 at Gulfstream Park for $641, the exacta in the Florida Derby, a Pick 5 at Keeneland and the exacta in the Lexington Stakes. He smashed the trifecta in the Belmont Stakes for $532.96, and later in June he crushed a Pick 4 at Belmont for $555. Those are just some of his scores this year.

Now, Weir has handicapped the 2023 Jim Dandy Stakes field, made his picks and constructed his bets.

One surprise: Weir is completely fading Forte, even though he is the 7-5 morning-line favorite. "He hasn't really moved forward from his 2-year-old races," Weir told SportsLine. Weir is not using Forte in any of his wagers.

Instead, Weir's top pick is a horse whose recent races "might be better than they looked." He also is high on another horse who has been "slowly improving." Weir is including these horses in his 2023 Jim Dandy Stakes bets, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see his picks before locking in any of your own.