DRF's Horse Racing Playbook for Friday, July 3, 2020

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12:00 GP 1st THE PREDICAMENT (#2, 20-1) down from Tampa sporting a series of decent looking gate works prepping for bow. Half to turf SW Winning Envelope. -Mike Welsch

12:29 GP 2nd GEGE CONQUEST (#2, 6-1) from barn on a roll of late in maiden 2yo races and likely to benefit from debut when off slow, finishing on wrong lead. Zayas stays. Looks best of a weak lot. -Mike Welsch

12:40 LRL 1st Not going to worry about YOUGOTTABEKITTEN’s (#2, 10-1) poor dirt form as she is by leading turf stallion Kitten’s Joy out of four-time grass winner Broken Trust Fund. Makes first start for high-percentage barn with a string of solid-looking workouts leading up to her seasonal debut. -Dan Illman

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1:40 LRL 3rd While QUEEN OF CAUSE (#7, 10-1) really appreciated the hot pace set by runaway speedster Stiva, she also seemed to relish switching to the turf for the first time. Didn’t break very well, settled nicely off those fast splits. Bid four wide on the turn and ran on well while attempting to lean in during the final furlong. She showed good speed in her prior three starts on dirt and can adapt to the expected slower pace setup this time around. Ruiz lands here instead of Mixways and Stated. -Dan Illman

1:58 GP 5th COULD BE (#2, 8-1) well spotted dropping out of open company to this slightly softer conditioned spot and barn has been on quite a roll of late. -Mike Welsch

2:02 WO 3rd DYNAMITE KARMA (#5, 7-2) is a DRF Best Bet (Ron Gierkink).

2:23 BEL 3rd LOOKBOTHWAYS (#5, 5-1) was off the layoff last time when forced to chase a fast pace from the rail and tiring in the stretch as the favorite; should be tighter for her second start back as she returns at the same level in a race without as much speed and she was in good form prior to the break. -Mike Beer

2:28 GP 6th Old pro FRENCH QUARTER (#3, 8-1) comes off well graded albeit perhaps bias aided bottom level maiden score but back with state breds for first time since solid effort vs. perhaps tougher group back during championship meet. -Mike Welsch

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3:10 WO 5th SIMPLY A ZOOMER (#2, 4-1) dueled with the eventual runaway winner, Silent Causeway, before coming up empty in her debut. She’s cheapening up from $40K to $25K, in a race in which her speed should be more effective. -Ron Gierkink

3:27 BEL 5th With plenty of speed signed on to this solid $32k claimer, REED KAN (#1, 8-1) is going to need a trip from the rail but he was sharp while returning to form off the layoff last time and he does have the back races to strongly contend in this spot; was no match for EYE LUV LULU when they met last January but that race was contested over the kind of wet track that the latter relishes and REED KAN had to be hard-used in that race to make the lead. -Mike Beer

4:12 WO 7th RANGE OF MOTION (#7, 6-1) finished far up the course behind three next-out winners the only time he raced for $50K at Gulfstream. The son of More Than Ready is returning from the sidelines for his first start for trainer Kevin Attard, and brings improving works to this OS/$40K inner track tilt. -Ron Gierkink

4:52 LRL 9th CANNON’S ROAR (#6, 5-1) appeared to be rounding into form during the tail end of the 2019 turf season. Three back, he pulled hard to prompt the leaders while three wide, made the front turning for home and was second-best to odds-on winner Strike Me Down. In the Maryland Million Turf, he was four wide and in between horses on the first turn, appeared to clip heels badly on the backstretch and finished with a one-paced rally while in between horses (sixth-finisher from that race returned to run third in a ‘non-winners of three other than’ with an 81 Beyer). -Dan Illman

5:30 MTH 2nd KRISTI’S COPILOT (#7, 2-1) is a DRF Best Bet (Kenny Peck).

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5:36 BEL 9th I’LLHANDALTHECASH (#4, 5-1) has run well in every one of her starts sprinting on turf to date and her two most recent starts are both better than they look on paper; she failed to break sharply and then appeared to lose focus in the stretch of the Captiva Island two back, and she took the worst of things in a roughly run race last time while running right into a drifting leader inside the final furlong to lose her best chance. -Mike Beer

7:00 MTH 5th FACTOR IT IN (#2, 6-1) makes his first start since mid-February in this inaugural Oceanport Centennial and seems to have landed in an ideal spot, as he has proven he’s capable of stalking the pace and making a run in an abbreviated sprint, and there’s plenty of speed to his outside; he was at the top of his game prior to the break in terms of Beyers and if he gets the right set up he should be able to run to those figures, which may well be good enough. -Kenny Peck

7:30 MTH 6th CRAFTY LASS (#4, 7-2) might be the main speed in this sprint. She gave way after dueling for the lead from the start in her debut at Gulfstream but if she is able to shake loose and back down the fractions a bit she certainly has license to steal this; cut back in distance to six furlongs also figures to work to her benefit. -Kenny Peck

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