McGee: How I'll play Del Mar for Sunday, July 21, 2019

With a hundo burning a hole in my pocket, I’ll start off the eight-race Sunday card at Del Mar with a cold early daily double of SEAHAWK WAVE (6) in race 1 and MR VARGAS (7) in race 2. Both stand to improve substantially after needing their June comebacks off layoffs, and both figure to get great stalking trips from their open-air outer boxes. I’ll also bet both to win but won’t extend to a pick three or pick five after finding races 3 and 4 to be exceedingly difficult.

I’ll wait for the late pick four when relying on BOMBARD (5) to use his much-needed recent comeback in leapfrogging forward with a huge effort in the Wickerr (Race 6) for Richard Mandella.

Here are the plays:

R1
– $20 win 6
– $15 double 6-7

R2
– $20 win 7

Straight-A pick four:
R5: 1, 2, 3
R6: 5
R7: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
R8: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
50-cent play = $45

Here’s the DRF TicketMaker link to the pick four.