Hammersly: Santa Anita pick three for Sunday, Jan. 25
Some full, competitive fields to close out the card give the late pick three (races 7-9) appeal. You’ll likely need to spread, but that may help you catch a price.
Michael HammerslyJan 24, 2015
Some full, competitive fields to close out the card give the late pick three (races 7-9) appeal. You’ll likely need to spread, but that may help you catch a price.
A modest winter storm that brought a mixture of snow and rain to the area forced officials to cancel Saturday’s live racing program at Aqueduct. It is the fifth full card to be canceled here in the last 17 days. Another card was scrapped after two races.
There was no shortage of news coming out of the Meadowlands on Friday night. Spurred on by $107.20 winner Wygant Princess to start the sequence, the pick five went uncollected and produced a $22,616 carryover for the Saturday program. The track also announced that it will revert back to condition classification and abolish the ABC system. Plus fields will be limited to 10 horses and all races will be contested at one mile.
The first two stake finals of 2015 took place Friday night at Woodbine Racetrack and it was the Sylvain Filion show.
Joe Jarvie, a building engineer and former NCAA basketball official from Renton, Wash., hit the last race on Friday to vault into first place on Day 1 of the three-day National Handicapping Championship at Treasure Island.
Let's take a look at Saturday’s 50-cent all-stakes pick five at Gulfstream.
I’m focusing on the two pick fours on this challenging 11-race card, which allows me to avoid races 6 and 7, a bottom $6,250 claimer and a two-turn maiden special for 3-year-old fillies on the grass.
Jockey Roman Chapa on Friday appealed a summary suspension the Sam Houston Race Park board of stewards levied against him pending an investigation into his ride in last Saturday night’s ninth race, the $50,000 Richard King Handicap, which he won aboard Quiet Acceleration.
With a winter storm approaching, Laurel Park on Friday evening canceled its Saturday race card.
Overlay opportunities are abundant Saturday at Santa Anita; the focus of this suggested “pick X” is the final two races.