Top pick: #6 (HOWIE ROLL) (4-1) - Ellis Park shipper pressed while wide and tired late racing there for a $5,000 tag in his second back off a pair of layoffs. Nice effort came off a private trainer change to Tom Short and the ne barn has him making back-to-back starts for the first time in a year and gelding draws a nice outside post.
2nd pick: #3 (Ryan's Rex) (7-2) - He's shown little in a pair of starts facing tougher since returning from a 10 1/2 month layoff. Owner/trainer Denise Sanderson drops him down, switches him from turf to dirt, and shortens him up in distance. FOur-year-old gelding should show whatever he has in this spot.
3rd pick: #4 (Thebankofnick) (2-1) - His best efforts have come at this tag and he'll be dropping back down, switching back to the dirt, and cutting back in distance. Last out he raced evenly here on the grass facing tougher and is in the small win mix.