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SANTA ANITA Race #4

January 13, 2012
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Premium Pick

Top pick: #11 (JUST METEOR) - Well-bred colt has been sparingly raced and probably has some physical issues. Son of "Forestry" races off almoat a two month break and trainer Rick Mandella will drop him into a claimer for the first time and race him on real dirt today. Working fine on this strip and the big drop can land him in the winner's circle.

2nd pick: #1 (Jack Reacher) - Has the rail, fines early speed, and he's clearly better on dirt (5-0-1-3)than on "poly". He set a pressured pace thru fast fractions before weakening to finish third 12 days ago facing slightly better, and is a win candidate this afternoon.

3rd pick: #2 (Zombyslayermrdarcy) - "Nibbler" has finished third in three of his nine starts and finished fourth here at this price in late October. Working o.k. and can grab a small share, but the win end seems to belong to one of the two top picks.

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