Friday’s Best Bets and Quick Picks: Exactas at Los Alamitos and Canterbury Park

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares best bets and quick picks for Friday, July 3 at Los Alamitos and Canterbury Park, including a pair of cold exactas.

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Best Bets and Quick Picks

Los Alamitos Thoroughbred: Race 1: $30,000 Maiden Claiming (five furlongs on dirt, 4:00 p.m. ET)

#4 Allons Y (2-1) is dropping in class after setting solid pace fractions in a pair of maiden special weights at Santa Anita and Los Alamitos. Now she’s dropping into a $30,000 maiden claimer, where she appears fast enough to outduel key pace rival #3 Please Behave (8-5), who exits a runner-up finish in $50,000 maiden claimer for California-breds.

A cold exacta, Allons Y over Please Behave, is the way we’ll play.

Selections

• #4 Allons Y (2-1)
• #3 Please Behave (8-5)
• #6 Cap ‘n Gown (8-1)

Wagers

• $25 Exacta: 4 with 3

Canterbury Park: Race 1: Maiden Special Weight (4 1/2 furlongs on dirt, 5:13 p.m. ET)

First-time starter #4 Midnight Bullet (8-5) enters off a couple of half-mile workouts from the Canterbury Park starting gate, including one in a respectable :48 2/5. The son of Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Rock Your World looks like a threat to win on debut for the hot jockey/trainer duo of Manuel Americano and Jose Silva Jr., who have gone 11-for-35 (31%) teaming up together over the last two months.

Let’s single Midnight Bullet to start a daily double.

Selections

• #4 Midnight Bullet (8-5)
• #3 Wilkin County (5-2)
• #2 Diablo’s d’Etat (9-2)

Wagers

• $20 Double: 4 with 2

Canterbury Park: Race 2: $12,500 Allowance Optional Claiming (one mile on turf, 5:45 p.m. ET)

If Silva and Americano score with Midnight Bullet in Race 1, they’ll have a chance to sweep the early double with #2 Found My Ball (8-5) in Race 2.

Found My Ball ran well over this course, distance, and class level on June 14. He advanced steadily into a solid pace and fought nicely down the homestretch to finish second, beaten only half a length.

Sticking to the same conditions can land Found My Ball a victory. We’ll single him to conclude our daily double, then bet him over #3 Caught Off Guard (4-1) in an exacta.

Selections

• #2 Found My Ball (8-5)
• #3 Caught Off Guard (4-1)
• #4 Cobblestone Bridge (9-2)

Wagers

• $10 Exacta: 2 with 3

Good luck!