LOS ALAMITOS TB
Race 1
No. 3 Margie’s Minute loves this track and comes off a big win, she will be tough right back. No. 4 Flexible Ethics has good early speed and gets her first start off the Mark Glatt claim. 3-4
Race 2
It’s not an easy task to win from the one hole here going 5-1/2 furlongs but we will single No. 1 Altaira here as we think that Kent D will take back and swing outside turning for home and mow them down. 1
Win and place 1
Race 3
No. 1 Twosome drops to her lowest level and will try and sit and pounce down the lane. No. 2 Gymnast Jadie and No. 5 Lob City are the ones she will need to run down. 1-2-5
Race 4
No. 4 Weirdhaircut Seth gets back on the dirt after a trip to the Gate, his last work says he is on go. No. 5 Classico will be the one to fear in this five horse field. 4-5
Race 5
In the last leg of the pick five we will use three horses: No. 2 Cheap O Charlie who just finished a good second here on the 15th, No. 3 Spirit World who just missed in his last start at Anita at this distance and No. 6 Armored Car who gets the drop and the hot riding Mario Gutierrez. 2-3-6
Pick five
1st 3-4
2nd 1
3rd 1-2-5
4th 4-5
5th 2-3-6
Race 6
This is a very wide open $16k claimer going 6-1/2 furlongs. We will go four deep using No. 3 Last One Standing on the big drop and good last work, No. 5 Shiny Nugget who has done little wrong in his three starts, No. 7 Ready Cat who also drops and No. 8 Cherokee Dynasty with the best draw and he owns a win here. 3-5-7-8
Race 7
We will go singling here using No. 2 Matty’s Tribal who will sit off a very hot pace and blow by them down the lane. 2
Win and place 2
Race 8
No. 1 Dustin’s Passion likes this mile distance and actually won here going a mile the one time he was here but had his number taken down. No. 3 The Gold Monkey exits the same race as Dustin and looks to rebound second off the layoff. No. 7 Jonny’s Choice is the speed and gets the bug boy Lindsay. 1-3-7
Double
7th 2
8th 1-3-7
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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].