Sunday's Best Bet: Seisai can show more in Santa Barbara
Sunday’s sixth race at Santa Anita is the $100,000 Santa Barbara Stakes for fillies and mares traveling 1 1/2 miles on the turf course. The scheduled post time is 6:35 p.m. EDT.
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No. 6 Seisai (3-1) never got involved in her flat-mile stateside bow in the Royal Heroine Stakes on April 1. She handled longer distances when she raced in Ireland, and she probably will show more for Umberto Rispoli and John Sadler.
No. 3 Duvet Day (5-2) has a decent late kick in these long turf races. She ran on nicely when winning the Astra Stakes at this course and distance Jan. 21 and was along for the show in the Santa Ana at 1 1/4 miles March 12. She picks up leading rider Juan Hernandez.
No. 5 Queen Ofthe Temple (3-1) hit the board in her last three turf-route stakes starts. She likes picking up minor awards, and Juan Hernandez abandons for Duvet Day.
No. 1 Exit Soul (4-1) will probably be loose on the lead under Kent Desormeaux. She added blinkers and easily wired the field in her all-weather maiden win at one mile March 18. She attended the pace and completed the trifecta in a pair of local special-weight, turf starts at 1 1/8 miles.
Get Jarrod’s Santa Anita analysis.
Wagers
No. 6 to win
Exacta 3-6/3-5-6
Trifecta 1-3-6/1-3-6/5
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)
Last Sunday – Les Bon Temps ($6.80)
Tuesday – Chipofftheoldblock ($5.40), exacta ($15.20)