Top pick: #2 (COLORFUL IMAGE) - Filly hasn't shown much in her three appearances, but all have come facin much tougher and in her only previous sprint she finished 3rd on the Saratoga lawn facing special weights. The Pletcher barn drops her into a low level claimer and she meets a weak field. Can beat these on the class reduction.
2nd pick: #3 (Perfectly Anna) - Debuting filly has been in training sine early June and her trainer (Wesley Ward 20% first out) has her nicely spotted for her first public outing. $25K yearling purchase has worked seven times on this surface with the latest being a half-mile bullet on Oct 2nd. Win candidate.
3rd pick: #7 (Desert Traveler) - She showed early speed last out before tiring to finish 3rd racing for $35K in a small field(5) at Belmont on Oct 5th. Noted "front end" specialist C.C.Lopez is aboard today and he'll he sending her hard early. In this poor gathering the horse that gets to the top has a bit of an advantage.