SANTA ANITA
Race 1
No. 3 Money Makin Mike comes off the layoff for O’Neill and ran faster than these as a 2yo. No. 4 Goldrusher drops in with $30k maiden claimers and will go better today. No. 5 Fashionly Handsome gets the hot riding Prat for Baltas. 3-4-5
Race 2
Maiden 2yo fillies go five furlongs. No. 3 Holy Mosey ran a nice even third in her one start going 4-1/2 furlongs when 3/4 of a length behind the second place finisher No. 6 Tap It All who went off at .10 cents on the dollar. No. 8 Robin Kiss looks best of the first time starters. 3-6-8
Race 3
No. 1 Broadway Nika drops and has good early speed. No. 5 Nahem gets his first start off the Miyadi claim, she will sit off the hot pace and make one run. No. 6 Tiz Jolie will be the one the top two will need to hold off late. 1-5-6
Race 4
No. 1 Entebbe is in good form and ran a better then looked last race, she gets a break in the weights today with the bug boy Lindsay getting the call. No. 5 Ya Ya Girl finally got the maiden score after 13 attempts, these type usually come right back and run big and Bejarano sticks. 1-5
Race 5
No. 3 Aiming Straight comes off the layoff and ran some good races last year, good enough to contend with these. No. 8 Girl Downstairs is the filly to beat on the drop down. 3-8
Race 6
In a wide open $8k claimer going 5-1/2 furlongs we will take our shot and single No. 2 Gold Journey second off the layoff and Pedroza has been riding very good. 2
Race 7
No. 2 Prime Issue is a Perter Miller re-claim, he lost him for $20k and claimed him back for the same amount. No. 4 Matriculate just missed in his last two starts and this mile distance makes him the one to beat. 2-4
Exacta box 2-4
Race 8
No. 3 Carnival Lights gets back to a mile on the grass where he just missed one race back, he gets 8 pounds off today. No. 4 Doris Johnson has good tracking speed and that will play well in this race. No. 5 Journeytothestars may like this mile distance. 3-4-5
Double
7th 2-4
8th 3-4-5
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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]