Monday's Best Bet: Ragan's Jet can win again in Wilma Mankiller

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Monday’s ninth race at Will Rogers Downs is the $50,000 Wilma Mankiller Stakes for fillies and mares dashing six furlongs on the main track. The scheduled post time is 6:05 p.m. EDT.

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No. 3 Ragan’s Jet (5-2) is on a roll. She captured her last four starts in the Oklahoma-bred ranks, and three of those were stakes races. The early-pressing mare should attend the pace. 

No. 5 Distorted Flash (3-1) has never lost at Will Rogers. She won this event last year and exits a local score in her prep for this. Her regular pilot Gerald Mora chose Ragan’s Jet. 

No. 7 Dicey (7-2) finished in a dead heat with Distorted Flash on March 6, and was a clear third in a local state-bred stakes race won by Ragan’s Jet on March 27. She frequently fires trifecta shots. 

No. 6 Aquila Moon (6-1) captured two races at Remington Park last year, and beat a next-out winner in her lone 2023 outing in Texas on Jan. 16. She should stalk the pace while out in the clear. 

Wagers

No. 3 to win

Exacta 3-5/3-5-7

Trifecta 3-5-6/3-5-6/7

Recent Best Bet winners

April 5  Ego Man ($4.80), exacta ($21.80), trifecta ($39.80) 
April 9  First Peace ($10), trifecta ($207.20)
April 10  Out Dancing ($9), exacta ($13)
April 12  Street Swagg ($8.94)
April 13  Curl Girl ($4.06)
April 14  Love Reigns ($7.38), trifecta ($224.64)
April 15  Twilight Gleaming ($7.54)
Sunday - Les Bon Temps ($6.80)

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