Santa Anita analysis for Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Santa Anita analysis for Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Brad FreeDec 30, 2018
Santa Anita analysis for Tuesday, January 1, 2019
The Saturday night Charles Town mandatory-payout pick-six carryover is $252,508. The single-ticket pick six has not been hit since Sept. 29, when it paid $146,170.
Well-matched stakes action adds appeal to the late pick four at Gulfstream on Saturday, a wager that begins with race 8, the Tropical Park Oaks, and concludes with the 11th and final, the Tropical Park Derby. Here is a budget ticket for the sequence:
Hammersly: Santa Anita pick three play for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018
Saturday's card is a bit short on playable first-timers, but there’s a race we found which should do you some good for the new year.
Although the 2018 racing season will not formally wrap up until New Year's Eve on Monday, the final graded stakes race of the year comes Saturday with the Grade 1 American Oaks at Santa Anita, which follows the Grade 3 Robert J. Frankel there a couple hours earlier.
TimeformUS handicapper David Aragona provides his Highlight Horse for Sunday at Aqueduct.
Coal Front looked like a real comer in 2017, winning four of five including a Grade 2 and Grade 3. Alas, an injury sidelined him for more than 13 months and when he came back in Aqueduct’s Grade 3 Bold Ruler on Nov. 2 he got into a duel from his rail slot and paid the price. There was no such disappointment this time.
TimeformUS handicapper David Aragona highlights some contenders on Sunday’s card at Aqueduct.
I’ll get involved in the late pick four (races 8-11) at Gulfstream today, a sequence comprised of large, relatively competitive fields.