Top pick: #3 (SISTER KATHLEEN) - Daughter of "Toccet" likes this surface (4-2-1-0) and last out reported home over six lengths clear at this distance in a 2L $25,000 claimer. Raises in price for her first at this condition, but she's too sharp to bet against.
2nd pick: #4 (Clair Bear) - Stretches-out in distance for trainer Tony Dutrow after a pair of sprint wins back-to-back. Has good speed to use and would expect her to be on or just off the lead. Trainer is fine on the distance increase.
3rd pick: #1 (Truck Ride) - Improving at this stage and she'll be trying a distance for the first time. Sharp wire-to-wire maiden win in the slop on Oct. 28, so trainer Dale Capuano "wheels" her back quickly for this. Capuano is deadly on the strtech-out angle (25%).