Sunday's Best Bet: White Frost heats up in Winter Memories
Sunday's 8th race from Aqueduct is the $150,000 Winter Memories Stakes for three-year-old fillies traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the turf course (Post Time 3:44 p.m. EST).
No. 6 WHITE FROST (4-1) graduated at this course/distance last fall and smartly rallied to take a productive renewal of the Sweetest Chant (G3) as my best bet top choice Jan. 30. This is her first start in more than nine months and Bill Mott’s promising filly fired a Saratoga training track bullet for this Oct. 28. She can sit in midpack before pouncing on these if she is ready to rumble off the bench.
No. 4 Gam’s Mission (9-2) lost her punch in her last two longer graded stakes starts. She is 2-for-2 at this distance and won the Regret (G3) May 29. She should work out a decent tactical trip in a race lacking front end speed.
No. 3 Plum Ali (8-1) experienced bad setups multiple times recently. The late running filly is 2-for-2 at this distance but it sure looks like she will be up against it from a race shape standpoint.
No. 11 Runaway Rumour (7-2) rallied to miss by a neck in the Sands Point and that was her sixth trifecta finish in seven career starts. She will need some racing luck from a less than stellar post and this race probably won't set up for her.
No. 12 Flown (12-1) is 1-for-8 with six minor awards. She was competitive vs. Gam’s Mission twice and was 2nd to Plum Ali in a juvenile stakes at Kentucky Downs last year. She can get a piece of this if able to work out a trip from the outside post.
No. 7 Miss Dracarys (10-1) is back in a route and she will probably be forwardly placed. She stalked and romped from an outside post in her lone turf try at this distance at Monmouth Park Aug. 28.
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Wagers:
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Exacta Box 4-6
Superfecta Key 6/3-4-7-11-12
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Oct. 31 - SUBCONSCIOUS ($7.80)
Nov. 1 - KEEPIN' IT CLASSY ($4.00)
Nov. 2 - LADY MCKENZIE ($7.00)
Nov. 3 - NEXT REVOLT ($4.40), Quinella ($7.80)
Nov. 5 - ECHO ZULU ($3.60)
Nov. 6 - CE CE ($14.40)
Nov. 9 - WELLINGTON WONDER ($6.40), Exacta ($26.60)
Nov. 10 - LASTCHANCEATGLORY ($6.80), Exacta ($15.60)
Nov. 11 - SPA CITY ($3.40)
Nov. 12 - Rowdy Rascal/Cuatro Madres Exacta ($12.80)