Thursday's Best Bet: Trail Ridge Road aims high in Indian Maid
Thursday’s seventh race at Hawthorne is the $75,000 Indian Maid Handicap for Illinois-bred fillies and mares traveling one mile on the turf course. The scheduled post time is 6:12 p.m. EDT.
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No. 3 Trail Ridge Road (7-2) got the wrong setup and trip on May 31. The pace was slow that day and she stalked wide and missed the show by a neck. She won her other two local turf starts and ran well in both flat mile attempts.
No. 6 Katie M’lady (5-2) fired exacta shots in all nine turf starts. She is 3-for-3 at this distance and should make her presence felt from the outset.
No. 7 Oeuvre (2-1) is a sharp sprinter with early-pressing speed. She captured seven of her last 10 starts and should be right there if she handles the added ground of this race.
Wagers
No. 3 to win
Exacta 3/6-7
Exacta 6-7/3
Recent Best Bet winners
June 18 – Planetario ($7.40), exacta ($14.80)
June 20 – Chelsea Wall ($11.40), exacta ($22.40)
June 22 – Daufuskie Island ($4.30), exacta ($10.80)
June 26 – Looms Boldly/Acoustic Ave/Dr. Kraft trifecta ($12)
Friday – Big Daddy Dave ($3)
Monday – Surly Furious ($4.20)
Wednesday - Nobody Listens/Latigo exacta ($26.20)