Top pick: #12 (BILA SHAKA) - Mare is improving and will race first off a Pete Miller claim. Stalker meets a weak field, draws a nice outside post at this distance, and the trainer remains on a meet long roll.
2nd pick: #2 (A Natural) - Speedy sort is racing into shape following a long layoff and trainer Mike Pender will add blinkers for this attempt. Working fast and she should be involved from start to finish.
3rd pick: #11 (Huntington Harbor) - Another racing firs off a claim (Brian Koriner) and he brings her back in just under four weeks. She cuts back in distance for this and has won on this surface in the past.