Saturday's Best Bet: Ouraika live shipper in Sweet Life
Saturday’s 9th race from Santa Anita Park is the Grade 3 Sweet Life Stakes for three-year-old fillies dashing six and one-half furlongs on the hillside turf course (Post Time 7:45 p.m. EST).
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No. 2 OURAIKA (4-1) is a competent turf sprinter shipping in from New York for Graham Motion, and this does not look like the deepest stakes race. She has been training forwardly at Fair Hill and looks ready to roll in her first start of the year.
No. 9 Urban (5-2) fired from off the pace in all four turf sprints including a sharp local maiden win at this distance under Flavien Prat Jan. 8.
No. 7 Kitty Kitana (4-1) was 2nd of 14 in her all-weather sprint debut in Ireland, and she shipped to this country and completed the exacta again at six and one-half furlongs on turf Jan. 8. John Velazquez rides for Phil D’Amato and the maiden fits with these.
No. 3 I Got a Gal (7-2) added blinkers and earned her diploma in a local flat mile special weight affair on good ground Dec. 27. She fired a training track bullet for this Feb. 6 and reunites with Umberto Rispoli.
Get my Expert Santa Anita Park picks for Feb. 12
Wagers:
No. 2 to win
Exacta Box 2-9
Trifecta 2-9/2-3-7-9/2-3-7-9
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