Churchill Downs Selections by John M. Gaver III: Friday, November 17, 2017

A 10-race program is on tap to jump start the weekend at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. on Friday, November 17. The featured ninth on the card is an ultra-competitive $33,000 open $25,000 claiming affair for three-year-olds and upward going a mile and a sixteenth on the Matt Winn Turf Course.
The program has a three-day, $8,707 carryover in the $1 Super High 5, in addition to a one-day, $5,721 carryover in the 20-cent Single 6 Jackpot.

The Green Sheet had a pair of exactas on Thursday’s program at Churchill, including a $119 hit in the seventh race on the card in addition to a pair of trifectas, highlighted by a $291 score in eighth on the day.
13 days day into the 2017 November stand in Louisville, The Sheet is hitting at a 23 percent strike rate; its top selections have finished in the money 55 percent of the time.
For FREE annotated selections for the Friday, November 17 program at Churchill Downs, click HERE.
Header image: “Jockeys,” by Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917). Pastel on paper, 1886