Top pick: #1 (ARENA ELVIRA) - One of a pair entered by trainer Bill Mott and they'll race uncoupled. Speed/stalker has the rail and believe against this field she'll be going right to the front. Lightly raced she finished second in both start here last year, including one at this 1 1/8th mile trip. The horse to beat.
2nd pick: #4 (Sweet N Sour Nina) - Hard-hitting shipper just nissed in a small stakes at Monmouth May 15, and last out finished a non-threatening third at Delaware in the G3 "Obeah" and the winner of that contest "Havre de Grace" would win this running backwards.
3rd pick: #5 (Always In My Heart) - Midwest regular Donnie Von Hemel has won the Peter Pan (G2) earlier this year at Belmont and this past Monday took the G2 Amsterdam in his first year of sending any of his runners to New York. This mare by "Hennessy" is steady (15-5-2-4) and at Oaklawn this past Feb. was only a 1/2 length off of the good mare "Payton de Oro". Stretch threat.