Friday’s pick five at Churchill Downs is an all stakes sequence beginning in race 7 and ending with the Kentucky Oaks. I’m playing it, and this is how:
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Drama Coach (#2, ML 6-1) battles seven in Wednesday’s seventh race at Churchill Downs, a seven-furlong starter allowance. Since Jan. 1, 2014, trainer Chris Hartman is winning at a 25 percent clip in first starts off the claim, for a return on investment of $3.57.
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Sky Commander (#5, ML 5-1) will return to action in Wednesday’s fourth race at Belmont, a one-mile optional claimer. It will be his first start since a second-place finish by a nose in a 6 1/2-furlong claimer April 8 at Aqueduct. The first- and fifth-place finishers from that race came back to win their next starts.
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TURN TO REALITY
Trainer: Stuart Simon
Last race: April 24, 6th
Finish: 4th by 1
Beyer: 41
After wintering at Palm Meadows, she was bet down to favoritism in her season opener against Ontario-sired maidens. She was bumped early and then awaited room on the turn before closing wide, with a switch to her left lead in deep stretch.
Mon, 04/27/2015 - 00:00
Saturday, April 25
Aqueduct - Excelsior (race 8)
COMMENT: This looked like the opportunity for Wicked Strong to show he was fully back and ready to contend in all the big events but instead it was stablemate Effinex who showed he’s become a serious horse. Coming off a romping win in the mud on the inner track here March 27, his first start of the year, he moved forward in this race. Effinex bided his time early as Red Rifle set the pace.