Saturday’s card at Santa Anita features two graded stakes events, and they will be the focus of my plays. I will play each of them individually, as well as have them be the bookends of a pick three play.
DRF handicapper Brad Free provides a suggested pick three play in races 2-4 Saturday at Santa Anita.
DRF handicapper Kenny Peck provides analysis of a suggested pick four play in races 2-5 Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Before the start of the Gulfstream Park meet Dec. 6, we used Daily Racing Form Formulator to look at a handful of trainers and how they’ve fared at Gulfstream over the last five years. In analyzing the data, we identified angles that had proven successful or unsuccessful in recent history at the track. These angles were not intended to be played as blind bets, which is to say they were not intended to supersede all other handicapping factors. For instance, if a horse in an upcoming race fell into a “Bet This” category, you’d have to determine if the horse seemed a worthwhile bet. Additionally, as they say in the financial world, past performance is no guarantee of future success.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, January 10th by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
The Hal’s Hope may be the race Saturday at Gulfstream that has the most star power – drawing last year’s Grade 1 Donn winner, Lea – but it is the two other stakes there Saturday, both deep contests on the turf, that have this horseplayer eager to wager.
If Calculator is less than his best making his first start since late September, Rockinatten has a chance at a mild upset in Saturday's Sham Stakes at Santa Anita.
I like Mutin, who won his first and only U.S. start last November at Aqueduct, in Saturday's Ft. Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Dave Litfin's horses to watch at Aqueduct for the week of Jan. 6.
Trip Notes for Jan. 3-5: Old Hat, Dania Beach, Jerome, Santa Ynez, and more by Michael Hammersly.
