Top pick: #8 (BERT'S PAL) - Gelding comes here from Golden Gate Fields and races off a huge positive trainer switch to Bob Diodoro. Five-year-old has been tiring badly of late and the switch from "poly" back to real dirt can rejuvinate him. Draws outside in a speedy field on paper and he can take this at a nice price.
2nd pick: #1 (Moment of Inertia) - The main speed and this improving gelding draws the rail. He regressed in his latest but in his previous pair had finished second here at this level. Home-bred is a win candidate in this spot.
3rd pick: #4 (Ceburuco) - Heavily bet last out, he was involved in a spirited pace duel and weakened slightly in the last 1/16th and was 2 1/2 lengths back of "Inertia". Race was his first in 11 months and with normal 2nd back improvement it puts him in this from gate to wire.