Friday night play from DiscreetPicks.com
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Hollywood - Race 6
#6 Hot 'n Lacey (7/2 ml)
Filly really improved when putting the blinkers back on and stretching out to two turns at Hollywood, setting strong fractions to just miss pulling off the wire-job @ 29/1, then came back about 3 weeks later and did it again, setting similarly fast early fractions before drawing away to win by 6 lengths. The splits she set that day are actually better than they look on paper, as the only other route race that day was a starter-allowance that went a full second slower to the half-mile. Also, an optional-claiming sprint just a half-hour before Hot 'n Lacey ran also had slow opening fractions (for a sprint) of 23 and 46, making Hot 'n Lacey's splits look even better. Moves up to a starter allowance here, but as mentioned she compared very favorably with one of those races last time, and catches a field here without too much early speed to challenge her. Good shot at wiring this field tonight.
HRT record:
59 for 199 (29%)
$488.40 mutuels ($8.42 avg)
#6 Hot 'n Lacey (7/2 ml)
Filly really improved when putting the blinkers back on and stretching out to two turns at Hollywood, setting strong fractions to just miss pulling off the wire-job @ 29/1, then came back about 3 weeks later and did it again, setting similarly fast early fractions before drawing away to win by 6 lengths. The splits she set that day are actually better than they look on paper, as the only other route race that day was a starter-allowance that went a full second slower to the half-mile. Also, an optional-claiming sprint just a half-hour before Hot 'n Lacey ran also had slow opening fractions (for a sprint) of 23 and 46, making Hot 'n Lacey's splits look even better. Moves up to a starter allowance here, but as mentioned she compared very favorably with one of those races last time, and catches a field here without too much early speed to challenge her. Good shot at wiring this field tonight.
HRT record:
59 for 199 (29%)
$488.40 mutuels ($8.42 avg)
Comments
Just got back home now and saw this. I had a large play on her as well. I took a hit getting nailed at the wire. Turning for home I damn near walked to the windows.