Saturday Santa Anita Park Recap – Jan 22
Edge to early-pressing types (3 wire jobs) on the main track. Turf course seemed to play fair (rail at 15 feet).
Victor Espinoza and Martin Pedroza both booted home a pair.
On the ticket front I tabbed three Secondary (Royal Import, Euroears, Hout Bay) winners on a difficult Saturday sequence. I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately but the Sunday card looks decent and it is time to snap out of it.
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Sunday Free Play Links
Below are links to my Jan 23rd free selections…enjoy!
7th race from Santa Anita Park – Today’s Racing Digest
Megahertz Stakes from Santa Anita Park – Horse Racing Nation
9th race from Santa Anita Park – MySpace Blog
Sunday’s pick six from Santa Anita Park includes a carryover of more than $104,000. The feature race is the $75,000 Megahertz Stakes (8th race) for fillies and mares traveling a flat mile on the turf. Morning line favorite Éclair de Lune missed a start earlier in the meet because of a lack of fitness. This flat mile event is only a starting point to her season and the 2010 Grade 1 winner does not figure to be fully cranked for this. Sunny skies are expected with a high temperature of 80.
Degree of Difficulty: Moderate. On a scale of 1 to 10, the Sunday pick six from Santa Anita Park rates a 5.
Possible Singles: Dave’s Pacemaker (9th race)
Jarrod Horak’s Santa Anita Pick 6 Tickets – Sunday, January 23, 2011
Santa Anita Race 4 (MSW, CA-bred 4up, 6.5T) Primary (#4 Team Builder, #5 Meltarib) - Secondary (#2 Jax El)
Santa Anita Race 5 (Clm-10k, f&m 4up, 8.5f) Primary (#5 Lucy Got Lucky, #3 Sky Brite Miss, #7 Sunny Peace)
Santa Anita Race 6 (Mcl-20k, 4up, 6f) Primary (#8 Wild Hombre, #5 Lead Blocker)
Santa Anita Race 7 (OC-40/1x, 4up, 7f) Primary (#11 Nextdoorneighbor, #3 Streakin’ Mohican) – Secondary (#9 Hot Damon)
Santa Anita Race 8 (Megahertz, f&m 4up, 8T) Primary (#3 Lilly Fa Pootz, #5 It Tiz) – Secondary (#4 Éclair de Lune, #1 Southern Fireball)
Santa Anita Race 9 (Clm-25k, 4up, 6f) Primary (#6 Dave’s Pacemaker) – Secondary (#1 Really Uptown)
Sunday Pick 6 Tickets
Note that the Standard Ticket shows how much it would cost if you used all of the contenders on one ticket. The multiple Primary/Secondary ticket strategy saves money and allows you to put your strong handicapping opinions to the test.
Pick 6 Spread Ticket Calculator courtesy of Del Mar website (click tickets to enlarge)
Lets hope this is the beginning of the upturn, I could sure use a share of $104k.
It ended up being a bit of a turnaround with the first five legs pegged successfully. Unfortunately, my suggested final race single Dave’s Pacemaker ran last.