Top pick: #7 (AIN'T NO OTHER) - Speed/stalker always come to run and has gone (18-6-5-4) during his well-managed career. His record on real dirt is encouraging (5-2-2-1) and was a stakes winner on it during his 2011 campaign. Working fine and the horse to beat.
2nd pick: #9 (Derby Gold) - Lightly-raced 3-year-old from the Baffert barn was a stakes winner on this surface on March 31st and this son of "Bertrando" is working fast on this strip for his first since Aug. 3. Blinkers go on and he's a win candidate.
3rd pick: #8 (Shudacudawuda) - Hard-hitter is a stakes winner many times over and was only a 1/2 length back of "Other" this past July 4th in a sprint stakes at Pleasanton. That was his first ever on real dirt and proved that he can handle it.