Pick 3 of the Week: Woodbine Sunday

A pair of stakes events will take place at Woodbine on Sunday, and I’ll include one of them in the Pick 3 of the Week. 

Race 7 Wager

$1 Pick 3: 1,2,6,7 with 1,4,7 with 3,4 ($24)

Race 7 – Maiden Special Weight

A total of nine sophomores will travel 1 1/16 miles on the synthetic in the opening leg. Seven of the nine in the cast hit the board last time in a tricky opening piece of the sequence. Rafael Hernandez riding #6 Borealis Trail (12-1) makes me think that the son of Quality Road will be live at a price. The Rachel Halden trainee was outrun on the dirt at Gulfstream Park on debut, but he will race as a gelding for the initial time and gets Lasix for his first go on the Tapeta. He sizzled a bullet four furlongs on the oval in advance of Sunday. 

Donald MacRae’s #2 William T (7-2) gets blinkers back on and has run well in each of his three career outings to date. The son of Frosted could be the one to beat. #7 Special Session (5-2), one of two in the field for Mark Casse, will run with the hood coming off, and the son of Constitution has placed in each of his four career tries at Woodbine. Patrick Husbands will be in the stirrups. Live Oak color bearer #1 Copper Ghost (6-1) moved forward in his route debut most recently and wouldn’t be a surprise for Michael Trombetta. 

Race 8 – Lake Huron S. 

The co-feature on the card is run at five panels on the grass for three-year-olds with seven set to go postward. #7 Go Kart Mozart (6-5) has won two straight following an unplaced debut and gets a nice draw on the outside. The Robert Tiller trainee is kin to a winner on the weeds and will be forcing the pace from the start under Sofia Vives. 

#1 Dark Screen (3-1) and #4 Little Red Domi (4-1) come out of the same allowance test on the main strip here on May 25, and both are eligible to improve second time off the layoff. 

Race 9 – Optional Claiming

The closing segment will see a talented group of six go 6 1/2 furlongs in a stakes-caliber contest. Two-time Grade 3 winner #3 Dresden Row (9-5) is surely using this race as a prep for longer races later in the year, but I’m a big fan of the four-year-old, and he can win on class alone. The Lord Nelson four-year-old owns a 7-5-1-1 local mark and will be coming from off the pace in a field with a good amount of early zip.

#4 I’m A Gambler (3-1), from the barn of Kevin Attard, is rounding up to a peak performance in his third appearance of 2025. The No Nay Never gelding ran some big ones on the oval last campaign and will offer value in the Pick 3 pools beneath Pietro Moran.