Top pick: #5 (HAVRE DE GRACE) - Wonderful filly defeated a solid field of males last out when winning the G1 Woodward S. at Saratoga on closing day and if not for a nose loss to the tough "Blind Luck" at Delaware in the G2 Delaware H. July 16, she'd be undeftaed (5-for-5) this season. Nearing $2M in earnings, daughter of "Saint Liam" has a flexible style, and has beaten better fields than this. Only negative is she's never raced on this surface.
2nd pick: #2 (Royal Delta) - Lightly raced and improving, she's won both the G2 Black Eyed Susan and the G1 Alabama this year and still seems to be improving. She broke her maiden here by 12 lengths 11 months ago in an impressive debut, so you know she can handle the surface. The only danger.