Bet this race at Diamond SportsTop pick: #2 (NERO) (2-1) - Debuting colt is working very fast here for trainer Bob Baffert (24% first out). Son of 'Pioneer of the Nile' sold for $950,000 a year ago at Saratoga and enters off a five-furlong work from the gate in a blazing :59 flat Aug. 19. He has the rail and could be long gone with an alert beginning.
2nd pick: #3 (Paddock Pick) (7-2) - Another that's working fast locally, he sold for $290,000 as a 2yo in training this past April. His work out line is loaded with bullets and if not for top selection 'Nero,' he would have been an obvious first choice.
3rd pick: #5 (Lord Guinness) (12-1) - Longshot is from the barn of veteran Bill Morey. Some of this colt's works are above average, and he's bred for speed being sired by 'Shanghai Bobby.'