Saturday's Best Bet: Our Flash Drive motors home in Selene
Saturday’s 7th race from Woodbine is the Grade 3 Selene Stakes for three-year-old fillies traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the all-weather surface (Post Time 4:21 p.m. ET).
#3 OUR FLASH DRIVE (7-2) was no threat in a pair of dirt sprints at Saratoga last summer. She returned in a local extended sprint June 19, and she smartly graduated from off the pace that day. Ghostzapper is the sire and Dynaformer is the dam sire, and she figures to love the added ground of this race. She drilled a bullet for this July 2 for the productive Husbands/Casse team.
#1 Gote Go (2-1) rallied to break her maiden at this course and distance last fall, and she exits a sharp last-to-first entry level turf route score at Churchill Downs. She should save all the ground from the back of the pack and might be able to run past these late.
#2 California Lily (3-1) won her local sprint debut last fall and also went all the way in a flat mile optional claiming affair at Turfway Park March 12. She returned to Woodbine and ended up a solid 3rd in a sprint June 19. She stretches back out and is probably the one to catch.
#7 Munnyfor Ro (8-1) finished behind Gote Go in a pair of local starts last year. She showed decent late interest in four of her last five turf routes and is back in the Kevin Attard barn.
#5 Sweet Souper Sweet (10-1) won a pair of all-weather sprints last year including a stakes event at Presque isle Downs. She had a less than ideal beginning from the inside post in her local stakes sprint return June 19, and she ended up an okay 4th that day. She must prove herself over a route of ground.
#4 Il Malocchio (6-1) returns to the Martin Drexler barn and figures to stalk the pace. She placed in a local all-weather stakes route last fall.
#6 Danger (10-1) exits a front running maiden route victory on all-weather ground at Turfway Park, and the pace was very slow that day. She will probably have to take up chasing duties in this spot, and she needs to run faster to compete with these.
Wagers:
#3 to win
Exacta 3/1-2
Exacta 1-2/3
Trifecta 1-2-3/1-2-3-4-5/7
Recent Best Bet Winners
July 1 - MIGHTY HEART ($5.80), Exacta ($18.20), Trifecta ($59.30)
July 3 - Miles Ahead/Chance It Exacta ($39.60)
July 4 - SHE'SONTHEWARPATH ($6.80), Exacta ($10.80)
July 9 - Uyuni/Amiche/Tayet Trifecta ($976.80)