Bernier: Los Alamitos pick four play for Sunday, Sept. 14
DRF handicapper Matt Bernier's Los Alamitos pick four play for Sept. 14, 2014.
Matt BernierSep 12, 2014
DRF handicapper Matt Bernier's Los Alamitos pick four play for Sept. 14, 2014.
BreezeFigs Quick-Pix for Saturday, September 13 by Bob Fierro and Jay Kilgore.
Three 2-year-old maidens by Malibu Moon bear watching in the first and third legs of Friday’s pick five at Belmont Park.
With four stakes races run consecutively to close out the card at Kentucky Downs Saturday, the sequence is ripe for horseplayers that enjoy multi-race wagers. And many players will find appeal in the all-stakes Pick 4. This handicapper is going to throw one more race into the mix so as to play a Pick 5, a wager that at Kentucky Downs has a takeout of just 14 percent and can be played in 50-cent combinations. So without further ado, let’s get to handicapping and formulating a TicketMaker play.
In the Noble Damsel Stakes at Belmont Park, I’m going with Baffle Me, a onetime speedball who had an interesting trip in the De La Rose Stakes last time out.
The Jackpot Hi 5 carryover for the ninth and final race is $400,494. Over the Cliff is the tepid 3-1 morning-line favorite in this seven-furlong claimer for non-winners of three. The front-runner is dropping from slightly tougher conditioned company to $8,000 and has other speed to contend with.
Brad Free's horses to watch at Los Alamitos.
Several 3-year-olds with experience in graded stakes try to get through the first-level allowance condition in the featured eighth race Thursday at Belmont Park.
Thanks mostly to Raglin River’s shocking win at 55-1 in Sunday’s seventh race, there is a pick six carryover of $37,032 as the first full week of the fall meet gets under way.
Kenny's Peck's Rainbow 6 play for Thursday, Sept. 11, at Gulfstream Park.