Top pick: #5 (SCOTT'S ALY CAT) - Price play drops down for this assignment and trainer Kiaran Mclaughlin will also be switching her from turf to dirt and shortening this filly up a furlong in distance. Lightly-raced, well-bred, and her speed/stalking style is a plus.
2nd pick: #8 (Night Brigade) - Professional grass filly will be be racing on dirt for the first time since last Nov when she finished second at this price going a mile on the Monmouth main track. Freshened-up since late Aug., trainer Dom Galluscio drops her down and cuts her back in distance.
3rd pick: #4 (Karma Police) - Speedy 3-year-old tired here facing much tougher on Sept. 8 in her first back off a seven week freshening. Sate-bred won a stakes on July 4th at Finger Lakes and can factor here on a big drop.