McGee: Keeneland pick four play for Saturday, Oct. 24

You could cold-punch a $30 double combining IMAGINING in R7 with SISTER BLUES in R8 at Keeneland on Saturday, but what fun would that be in hoping to get back something like $20 for every $2 played?

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Let’s try to leverage those back-to-back races by extending to a pick four and scatter-shotting the way-wide-open Valley View (R9) with 10 of the 14 main-body fillies. Then we’ll cover bases in the R10 finale with 6 of the 9 starters - and hope a big price comes home in one or both of those last two races.

IMAGINING (8) clearly is getting huge class relief in looking to rebound off an atypical effort in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer, while SISTER BLUES (6) ran very well at this same level earlier in the meet when stretching out for Tom Proctor, and figures to get a good stalking trip under D. Van Dyke.

Here’s the ticket:

R7 – 8
R8 – 6
R9 – 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14
R10 – 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9

50-cent ticket = $30