ARCADIA, Calif. – Skeptical bettors are back in business Friday at Santa Anita. The $2 pick six begins with a $42,057 carryover, and cynics will consider a trio of short-price favorites at the end of the card to be vulnerable. A colt who never tried turf is 6-5 to win on turf in race 6. A filly who never raced two turns is even-money around two turns in race 7. Finally, a filly who never sprinted on turf is even-money to win race 8, a turf sprint. All three could win anyway: Stakes winner Start the Ride is the class of the field in race 6; Bitter Truth is a speed-figure standout with a distance pedigree in race 7; Jennys Wine Girl routes as if she will benefit by the shorter distance in race 8. The pick six on races 3-8 is likely to attract more than $200,000 in new money. The sequence also includes a maiden sprint for 2-year-old fillies in race 5. The most likely winner is obvious, though she is not favored in the program. Below is a look at the pick six sequence. Race 3 is a $10,000 claiming sprint for fillies and mares, nonwinners of three, with four logical contenders and three toss-outs. The race is perfect for program favorite Headstrong Ways, a nonwinners-of-two claiming winner two back. Toulouse Detrac is likely to set the pace, though none of nine races this meet at 5 1/2 furlongs was won by a horse who led at every call. Toulouse Detrac will be pressured by Aloha Dreamin; Headstrong Ways will rally. Neezer Dalton, marginal fourth preference, drops in class for her second start back. :: Santa Anita! Get DRF Past Performances, Clocker Reports, and more. Race 4 is a $32,000 claiming turf mile for fillies and mares, nonwinners of two lifetime. The only toss is overmatched sprinter Mia Forza. The other six entrants all have a shot, including program favorite Bear’s Board. Race 5 is a maiden sprint for juvenile fillies featuring eight first-time starters. Sentient Soon is expected to start favored, though she is 5-2 second choice in the program behind Buena Vida. Jeff Bonde trains Sentient Soon. “Her last workout, she was good out of the gate,” Bonde said, referring to a bullet half-mile in 47 seconds. “When you’re in these [early] sprint races they have to show some precociousness or you’re wasting your time.” Sentient Soon is by Dads Caps, whose juvenile progeny have won 16 percent first time out. Kyle Frey has worked Sentient Soon and rides the likely favorite. Buena Vida, the 2-1 program favorite and the only non-California-bred, is by Kentucky first-crop sire Life Is Good. Two of the stallion’s first three starters won first time out. Trainer Ryan Hanson said Buena Vida “has only had one gate work, and [jockey Adrian Escobedo] didn’t really push on her too much.” Hanson said Buena Vida is fit, but he hedged regarding her speed. “We were less worried about quickness and more worried about trying to build fitness,” he said. Buena Vida is likely to rally from behind. Third preference is Lahar, who has posted fast workouts at Los Alamitos for trainer Jose Hernandez Jr. Lahar is by Straight Fire, whose 2-year-old debut progeny have won at a 21 percent clip. Race 6 is an allowance turf mile for California-bred 3-year-olds, and Start the Ride stands out based on his Cal Cup Derby victory on dirt in January. He subsequently was unplaced in the Grade 2 San Felipe and the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. Dan Blacker trains Start the Ride, who meets four lesser rivals Friday on turf. The question is footing. Start the Ride is by Upstart, whose progeny generally prefer dirt. “I’ve always felt in my gut that he’s a dirt horse,” Blacker acknowledged. “I think all horses are better on one surface or another, it just depends who they’re running against. It [turf] is just a bit of an unknown.” Emisael Jaramillo rides Start the Ride, subbing for suspended Armando Ayuso. If Start the Ride runs well Friday, Blacker said he could wheel back 15 days later in the $125,000 Snow Chief Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for California-bred 3-year-olds on May 23. Others in the allowance – Beeblebrox, Uecker, Allequin Summer, and Southern Melodee – are evenly matched. Race 7 is a $12,500 maiden-claiming mile for California-bred fillies and mares, and Bitter Truth looks formidable. Third in both recent sprints, Bitter Truth’s dirt figures tower over her rivals, and she is bred to run long – sired by Clubhouse Ride and produced by an Awesome Again mare. Bitter Truth enters as one of the most probable winners on the card, even if it is her first route. Race 8 is a six-furlong turf sprint for $50,000 maiden-claiming fillies and mares bred in California. Jennys Wine Girl, in the money in five straight, including four routes, shortens in distance and drops in class for trainer Richard Baltas. But the gamble is Butterfly Beach, whose fifth-place comeback was better than it looks. She was hard held early, shuffled slightly, and finished evenly. She switches to Jaramillo for her second start back and could upset at 5-1 program odds. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.