Top pick: #9 (MONEY MACHINE) (5-1) - Lightly-raced and improving gelding has gone 3-0-2-1 so far, all facing tougher. Trainer Pete Miller (who has had a fine meet) drops him to a new low in price and will be cutting him back in distance.
2nd pick: #2 (Spirited Touch) (9-2) - Trainer Bob Baffert has freshened this colt up since hr raced evenly ay Hollywood for a $50K tag on July 6th. Son of "Elusive Quality" is training fast locally for this attempt and he takes the same drop as "Machine."
3rd pick: #3 (Fight the Power) (8-1) - Gelding hasn't raced since late Feb. when he went evenly on the Oaklawn dirt facing tougher. He's been freshehed up by trainer Cody Autry, and his last pair of local drills have been above average. Price play.
4th pick: #7 (Donttextndrive) (6-1) - Freshened up since July 12th, trainer Marty Jones will drop him down a bit and have him try sprinting for the first time. He has some closing kick and would love a fast/and or contested pace to develop.
5th pick: #10 (Market Portfolio) (6-1) - Well-backed when debuting here at this tag on Aug. 11, he rallied to finish second after a bit of a troubled break. The Hollendorfer barn has worked him twice since and Wygod home-bred draws a nice outside post. In the mix.