SANTA ANITA
Race 1
No. 2 Walking On Water gets his first start off the Peter Miller claim, he has finished second in his last two starts. No. 8 Unusually Big has had his chances but finds a field he may be able to beat at a price, he will get the perfect set up today. 2-8
Race 2
No. 2 Warrensdollarsigns is in top form and gets the move up off the easy win and the real nice last work. No. 6 Larocco drops for Ted West looking to find her winning ways. 2-6
Race 3
No. 3 Shazara exits our HTW list off a better than looked effort first out. No. 1 Dancing Ava and No. 2 Faithfully who is the filly to beat are the main two runners. 1-2-3
Race 4
We love to find a good single in the pick five. Our single on Sunday finished second or we would have hit the pick five. Today we will be shooting with No. 2 All for Charity who comes off the layoff for D’Amato and has been working with a purpose. 2
Win and place 2
Race 5
No. 3 Gift of a Star will fall into a good tracking position behind No. 5 Socialized who will try and take them wire-to-wire. No. 7 Hiking will be the one trying to run down the top two in case they hook up too early and the price will be right on Hiking. 3-5-7
Exacta box 3-5-7
Pick five
1st 2-8
2nd 2-6
3rd 1-2-3
4th 2
5th 3-5-7
Race 6
No. 6 Malibu Rum Run is the key player in this race off her near miss when dropped to this level last out. We will key her in the late pick four and play some exactas in here with No. 1 Basie Boots and No. 9 Redeeming Quality. 6**-1-9
Key exacta box 6 with 1-9 and 1-9 with 6
Race 7
We need to go four deep here using No. 1 Afleet Domination off the tough win. No. 2 Secret Room a nice price play out of the Danzig Candy race. No. 3 Go Long who was close behind Domination last out and No. 10 American League who also exits the Domination race and exits our HTW list. 1-2-3-10
Race 8
In the last leg of the pick four we get $75k maidens going a mile on the grass. No. 3 Spitfire is a first time starter bred for the grass and that last work says we must use. No. 5 Mostinterestingman comes off a better then looked effort first out going this mile turf distance and the horse that finished second came back and broke his maiden next out. No. 7 Ya Antabttsy is another first time starter bred for the grass and we get Desormeaux riding for Baltas. 3-5-7
Pick four
5th 3-5-7
6th 6
7th 1-2-3-10
8th 3-5-7
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Richard Saber, a former director of race and sports at the famed Stardust book, is GT’s horse racing and sports handicapper. Twitter: @SabesBet. Email: [email protected].