Bet this race at Diamond SportsTop pick: #2 (TRICKS TO DOO) (3-1) - $600,000 purchase has won two in a row both at 6 furlongs. Latest saw him win Tampa Bay Downs Innaugural Stakes Dec. 16 by just over 7 lengths while completing the distance in a swift 1:09.40. Trainer Arnaud Delacour has him working steadily and he has Jose Ortiz aboard for this attempt.
2nd pick: #6 (Strike Power) (7-5) - One of several good looking maiden winners at this meet from the barn of Mark Hennig, this home bred by 'Speightstown' scored by 8 widening lengths running 5.5 furlongs in 1:02.60 Dec. 23. He earned a triple digit Byer figure that day and has been working above average since. An obvious threat.
3rd pick: #5 (Piven) (4-1) - He was an easy winner of a $75,000 stakes here for fellow Florida breds going 6 furlongs Jan. 6. A career best, it was his first on conventional dirt after going 4-1-1-1 on the all weather surface at Woodbine in 2017. Stalker should get a nice pace set up and he just missed at this distance in a stakes up north Nov. 11.