Diodoro has favorites in Wednesday features at Louisiana Downs and Evangeline Downs

Wrath will be searching for his third straight win when he starts as the probable favorite in the Wednesday feature at Louisiana Downs.

He goes in the sixth, a first-level allowance for 3-year-olds and up over a mile and 70 yards. The race is one of three high-end offerings on the card.

Wrath invades from Lone Star, where his Texas-based ownership, M and M Racing, was poised to win the owner title Wednesday night. The horse captured a $15,000 conditioned claimer by 3 3/4 lengths June 22. The Beyer Speed Figure of 81 he earned is the best last-race number in the field Wednesday.

“He does seem like a horse that’s getting better,” said trainer Robertino Diodoro. “He’s a nice horse. He’s not a world beater, not a stakes horse, but he is a horse that’s getting better.”

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Diodoro said he was looking for a spot for Wrath with the meet winding down at Lone Star and came across Wednesday’s option. The chief threats appear to be Run Tappy and Zing Zang.

◗ M and M Racing and Diodoro also have the probable favorite in Wednesday night’s featured eighth race at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La. They send out recent private purchase Bring Me a Check.

He’s part of a field of eight in the entry-level allowance for 3-year-olds and up at a mile on turf.

Bring Me a Check was second by a neck at the same distance on turf in his last start, a $25,000 conditioned claimer June 29 at Lone Star. The Beyer of 79 that he earned is the best last-race number in the field at Evangeline.

“With Evangeline done at the end of the month and Lone Star done now, we wanted to get him in a race,” Diodoro said. “We’re seeing what we got.”

Ty Kennedy has the mount on Bring Me a Check, a 3-year-old by Fast Anna.