Top pick: #1 (UNIVERSALIS) - Gelding chased a "long gone" wire-to-wire winner last out but gamely held on to the place spot while no match for that rival. Has the rail and can win this with an alert break.
2nd pick: #4 (Bear's a Winnah) - The probable favorite just missed here at this price and distance 10 days ago. Effort was her first ever on this surface and first on conventional dirt. Win candidate.
3rd pick: #3 (Until the Wee Hours) - Grey colt set a pressured pace and tired to finish third at this tag and trip July 31. Race came in his third off a trainer change to Jeff Radosevich and it was a positive development.