Top pick: #3 (CACTUS BREEZE) - Clearly better since moving to the turf, he finished 2nd here in back to back grass races in the late fall and has been freshened-up for the past 50 days by trainer Kent Jensen. One run type is the horse to beat.
2nd pick: #5 (Enforcer) - Gelding by "Quiet American" broke his maiden here on the grass on Nov 8th, then finished a solid 4th at this level in his first facing winners. Latest saw him run 2nd in a small field(5) in a contest where most of the field scratched when the race came "off the turf". Contebds in this spot.
3rd pick: #7 (Joshua's Journey) - Price play stretches-out in distance, moves up in class, and goes dirt to turf. Gelding raced evenly in a cheaper dirt sprint Jan 3rd in his first race in 3 months, and is brought back quickly by a capable barn (Valorie Lund).