Player Quick Pick: Saratoga early Pick 4 for 7/27/2014
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by Andrew Champagne
Sunday’s card at Saratoga is littered with big, wide-open fields. In fact, the late Pick Four presents a ridiculous challenge, one that goes against my philosophy in writing these Pick Four selections. If I won’t even consider playing a ticket, due to finances, ticket structure, etc., I won’t give it out, and Sunday’s late Pick Four ticket wound up being a $75 ticket with a very low comfort level.
As such, we’re going with the early sequence Sunday, which starts in Race #2.
RACE #2: I’ll go three-deep in this starter allowance for older fillies and mares. Favorites #6 Flamingo Lane (3-1) and #8 Edie (5/2) are logical, and I’ll also throw in live longshot #1 Tizallheart (10-1). She’s woken up of late since switching back to turf, and she gets a big rider change to turf ace Julien Leparoux.
RACE #3: Here we have a sprint for 2-year-old maidens. I went four-deep in here, using #2 Skipalute (7/2), #4 Curalina (5-1), #5 High Dollar Woman (5/2), and #6 Hopefaithjoy (3-1). Skipalute ran a winning race first out despite a wide trip, Curalina has shown ample speed in the mornings despite being bred to go much longer, High Dollar Woman has a strong local work for a fantastic second-out trainer in Tony Dutrow, and Hopefaithjoy boasts the ever-powerful Pletcher-Velazquez combination.
RACE #4: There have been plenty of turf marathons early on in the meet. This is another one, as 10 will go 1 3/8 miles.
I went two-deep in here, using #3 Decisive Edge (7/2) and #6 Northeast Bound (5-1). Decisive Edge is a plodding type who has run second on three straight occasions, while Northeast Bound draws Joel Rosario and goes back to the grass for Dale Romans.
RACE #5: We finish with another wide-open turf race. I went four-deep in here using most of the logical horses. #1 Lady Candidate (6-1) goes to the Mike Maker barn and tries turf again, #5 First Whippoorwill
(3-1) drops down in class after a second-place finish in her 2014 debut, #9 Who’s Mary’s Daddy (5-1) may be the speed of the speed and is also dropping in class, and #11 Holiday Drama (7/2) adds Joel Rosario after winning two in a row at this level in Delaware.
It’s not a ridiculously cheap ticket, but at $48, it’s affordable and provides some meaningful coverage in deep races. If you’re looking for a sequence to play and don’t want to tear your hair out, I’d advise swinging for the fences early on in the card. Good luck!
by Andrew Champagne
Sunday’s card at Saratoga is littered with big, wide-open fields. In fact, the late Pick Four presents a ridiculous challenge, one that goes against my philosophy in writing these Pick Four selections. If I won’t even consider playing a ticket, due to finances, ticket structure, etc., I won’t give it out, and Sunday’s late Pick Four ticket wound up being a $75 ticket with a very low comfort level.
As such, we’re going with the early sequence Sunday, which starts in Race #2.
RACE #2: I’ll go three-deep in this starter allowance for older fillies and mares. Favorites #6 Flamingo Lane (3-1) and #8 Edie (5/2) are logical, and I’ll also throw in live longshot #1 Tizallheart (10-1). She’s woken up of late since switching back to turf, and she gets a big rider change to turf ace Julien Leparoux.
RACE #3: Here we have a sprint for 2-year-old maidens. I went four-deep in here, using #2 Skipalute (7/2), #4 Curalina (5-1), #5 High Dollar Woman (5/2), and #6 Hopefaithjoy (3-1). Skipalute ran a winning race first out despite a wide trip, Curalina has shown ample speed in the mornings despite being bred to go much longer, High Dollar Woman has a strong local work for a fantastic second-out trainer in Tony Dutrow, and Hopefaithjoy boasts the ever-powerful Pletcher-Velazquez combination.
RACE #4: There have been plenty of turf marathons early on in the meet. This is another one, as 10 will go 1 3/8 miles.
I went two-deep in here, using #3 Decisive Edge (7/2) and #6 Northeast Bound (5-1). Decisive Edge is a plodding type who has run second on three straight occasions, while Northeast Bound draws Joel Rosario and goes back to the grass for Dale Romans.
RACE #5: We finish with another wide-open turf race. I went four-deep in here using most of the logical horses. #1 Lady Candidate (6-1) goes to the Mike Maker barn and tries turf again, #5 First Whippoorwill
(3-1) drops down in class after a second-place finish in her 2014 debut, #9 Who’s Mary’s Daddy (5-1) may be the speed of the speed and is also dropping in class, and #11 Holiday Drama (7/2) adds Joel Rosario after winning two in a row at this level in Delaware.
It’s not a ridiculously cheap ticket, but at $48, it’s affordable and provides some meaningful coverage in deep races. If you’re looking for a sequence to play and don’t want to tear your hair out, I’d advise swinging for the fences early on in the card. Good luck!
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