More than $50,000 was bet on Gulfstream Park’s Late Pick 4 last Friday. It’s worth a 50-cent base wager to try and cash in on this week’s sequence. Here’s a closer look with a suggested $48 ticket:
GP 6th race (3:03 p.m. EST) -- No shortage of expensive sales buys and eye-catching workouts for top barns in this 10-horse MSW sprint for 2-year-old fillies. ROJO RITA blazed from the gate at Palm Meadows in :46 flat October 18, the best of a promising series of works. She and stablemate Bear Claw Necklace, who finished third in her debut, ran more than a full second faster than 35 others who worked 4F that day. HENRY GONDORFF debuts for an 18-percent barn with 2-year-olds and her dam was a second-out MSW winner at age 2 and multiple stakes-placed sprinter as a 3-year-old. REPUTATION, a 450,000 purchase, prepped fast at Keeneland, but the daughter of Grade 1-winning 2-year-old Bolt D’Oro shows up here for a solid first-out barn. Don’t sleep on her stablemate, LUNA LOUSKA, who worked faster than 100 others twice recently and is out of a dam who had two wins and a stakes-placed showing from four starts in her first year of racing. PRECISENESS was a troubled favorite in her debut in May, but she was well-beaten in a race that produced 10/1-0-1 follow-up efforts.
GP 7th race (3:35 p.m. EST) -- Consider the Pick 4 a Pick 3 if R DISASTER lives up to probable odds-on favoritism. But it’s hard to go beyond a runner who returns home to face Florida breds after defeating open $80,000 claimers at Churchill Downs. She set faster fractions and finished 1/5 of a second slower than a same-day starter allowance for the boys in which the top four finishers were a combined 35-130 with more than $1 million in total earnings.
GP 8th race (4:06 p.m. EST) -- CARDINALE starts fresh and returns to the scene of his debut victory and near-miss in a follow-up allowance route. He fought back after he lost the lead mid-turn but missed a repeat win by a neck. He faded in the Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds, but he gets a pass on that one as the top five finishers are all graded stakes winners, including Breeders’ Cup Classic champion Sierra Leone. MUGATU bore in at the start in a crowded Maryland Million Classic field at Laurel Park, trailed into the far turn, but finished well for third at 1-1/8 miles. He is a viable option if CARDINALE doesn’t win. HAVILDAR should benefit from a useful comeback in a slow-paced allowance in which he raced extremely wide throughout and finished third. He shows a 1:00-1/5 workout since then.
GP 9th race (4:38 p.m. EST) -- With nine entrants going post-ward with a combined 9-for-131 record, go deep in the final leg of the sequence. CARDON SETTLEMENT broke his maiden at today’s distance, then finished in the money in a pair of 7F sprints that featured next-out, repeat winners. FIRST TEAM finished 2 lengths behind ‘Cardon’ but he is a longshot consideration if he stays in contact and avoids his usual wide trip on the cutback in distance. AMAZING WOO rallied 4-wide and won in-hand but six of his rivals finished out of the money in their next start. JIVE starts for a new barn as a gelding, but he is a major player if he avoids another slow start. SMOKIN BOW worked forwardly off a six-month layoff but didn’t fire. Use him on the ticket at 15-1. CAJUN FOOL dueled through solid fractions from the same post two starts back before a trio of closers passed by. SIXTEEN CIGARETTES rallied 6-wide to finish third in the same spot two back on conventional dirt and gets in light-weighted. CACIQUE ABARRIO runs for the cheapest tag of his career and should be forwardly placed a long way.
Suggested 50-Cent Ticket
GP 6th Race: 1, 2, 3, 4
GP 7th Race: 2
GP 8th Race: 1, 6, 8
GP 9th Race: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Cost: $48
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