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Turf: FIRM (8 feet)


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January 2010

A good Sunday program begins with a $20,000 claiming dash that pretty much boils down to the two morning line favorites, #1 Spot the Diplomat and #2 Capt. Sparrow. The one to beat is Spot the Diplomat, who was blocked badly and lost his chance when trying to make a winning move vs. slightly stronger earlier this month, and if secures clear sailing today he’ll be tough to deny late. Capt. Sparrow exits a tougher race but is still well above his claim level, a solid endorsement from Carava who generally runs his stock where they can win.

A strong and challenging 11 race program on Sunshine Millions Day begins with a $25,000 restricted claiming dash for fillies and mares, and both #3 Yodelady O and #7 Joint Agreement have credentials to win, but neither appear trustworthy. The former hasn't won since 2008 while the latter, comfortably placed outside and exiting a productive heat, is just 1-for-18 overall and simply doesn’t appear to have a winning punch. Let’s pass.

Real nice day yesterday and those who used the horses we mentioned in the early Pick-4 (races 1-4) cashed for $682.80 while spending only $27.00. A number of rolling daily doubles and Pick-3s throughout the day made it one of the more profitable afternoons of the season for followers of this column. Let’s see what we can do on Friday.

Thursday’s card is no piece of cake – as if some of them are – but it does present the potential from a few lucrative rolling exotic plays, so let’s dive in and see what happens.

Wednesday’s program begins with a maiden claiming sprint for 3-year-old fillies and #9 Pat Olcott should be a short price to win it. Second in both of her last two starts with numbers that would be good enough to beat this field, the daughter of More Than Ready lands the comfortably outside post, gets a break in the weights with the switch to Reyes and should be the controlling speed.

The following are key performances covering the most recent seven days of racing at Santa Anita:

The main track was in surprisingly good shape yesterday after the week-long heavy rains and seemed to be bias free. There was no turf racing, but for this writing we’re going to assume that the races will remain on grass for the Sunday program.

Racing resumes on Saturday at Santa Anita following two days of closure due to the severe weather that dropped more than seven inches of rain on the main track this week. It’s anybody’s guess how the surface will play and whether it will contain any type of bias, so the best advice to observe and evaluate during the early portion of the program to determine whether your original selections will need adjusting.

The rains came Sunday afternoon and haven’t stopped. In fact, it’s supposed to be a very wet week, so it’s possible that we’ll have little or no turf racing in the next few days. As of this writing, the races remain on turf for the Monday program, but that could, and probably will, change.

Yesterday’s late pick-4 – which we recommended to play with a mere $24 ticket – returned $1,920.70 and followers of this column easily could have had it multiple times. As for the Pick-6, no I didn’t play it, but if anybody had the good sense to construct a ticket using only the horses I mentioned in the column (that ticket would have cost $384), they would have hit the Pick-6. The payoff: $363,860. Okay, that's yesterday's news, what about today?

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