Top pick: #3 (JR'S EXCHANGE) - Hard hitter has 10 lifetime wins (four each on turf and dirt, and a pair on the local all-weather surface). Very fast from the gate, he has a recency edge on several as he was a sharp gate to wire winner at tanpa on April 21st. The horse to beat.
2nd pick: #5 (Hero's Reward) - Pimlico shipper raced evenly there in a $75K grass stakes on April 7th, his first start since Oct. 1st. Working fast for tis and he likes this surface (4-2-1-0). Stakes winner up and down the Eastern seaboard has won $1.2M the hard way (sprinting).
3rd pick: #2 (Dazzled Saint) - Working fast for his first race since Oct. 1, he won that evening and defeated "Hero" in the process. Very fast from the gate, he's won off of layoffs in the past, but gives away a recency edge to "Jr." A threat nontheless.