Top pick: #1 (TWIRLING CANDY) - Talented home-bred by "Candy Ride" is seven for nine overall, three for four on this surface, and rebounded from a very rough trip earlier this year in the Santa Anita H. (G1) to win the G2 Californian on this surface June 4th. Working fast for this, he draws the rail, and catches a field without a lot of other speed signed-on. Four-year-old can take this from on, or just off the lead.
2nd pick: #4 (Game On Dude) - One of two from the Baffert barn and they'll race uncoupled. Lightly raced 4-year-old upset the "Big Cap" at Santa Anita earlier this year and has come-back to run second and third in a pair of G3 stakes out of town. Has the next best speed and would expect this 4-year-old by "Awesome Again" to be involved from start to finish.
3rd pick: #3 (Setsuko) - He's still eligible for a 2l or 1X allowance condition as he still only has one victory. That said, he's run strongly in a number of graded stakes and last out ran second here in the Californian to "Candy". Four-year-old has enough positional speed to stay close and make a race of it turning for home.