Top pick: #6 (STILL UNBROKEN) (5-2) - Filly stretches out after finishing second when debuting here in a 6-furlong sprint on Oct. 3. Veteran Aaron Gryder takes over the riding assignment and gelding will be tough on the front end.
2nd pick: #1 (Anythingtogeteven) (6-1) - The field's most experienced maiden, he stretches out for the first time after finishing second at Fairplex going 6.5 furlongs on Sept. 19. Stalker has the raiil and is a win candidate.
3rd pick: #4 (Black Tie) (7-2) - Gelding runs third back from a two month break and rallied to finish third here on Oct. 3, only a length back of "Unbroken. By far a career best, and he should like the extra distance.
4th pick: #7 (Pantera Rojo) (7-2) - Home-bred showed little in his debut, but it came facing special weights. The McAnally barn drop him into a claimer, moves him from "poly" to dirt, and stretches him out in distance.