Top Pick: #1 Nitrogen (4-1) - It's been a consistent and winning year for this 3-year-old filly: Eight races in 2025, six wins, along with two second-place finishes. She won the Grade 1 Alabama two outings ago with Jose Ortiz, who will ride again. Ortiz was careful not to make an early move, but at the right time: "When I needed another gear, she gave it to me" to win by 1 1/2 lengths.
2nd Pick: #3 Clicquot (10-1) - Five straight victories for this horse, including taking the Grade 1 Cotillion at 5-to-1. Flavian Prat will be atop this impressive late-bloomer.
3rd Pick: #8 Seismic Beauty (9-5) - Three straight wins since April, including taking the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch the last time out at Del Mar. She now has four victories, two seconds, and a third in seven trips to the post.