Saturday's Best Bet: Americanize over Masochistic in Midnight Lute
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Handicapper: Jarrod Horak
Track: Santa Anita Park
Race: 8 - Post Time: 7:02pm ET
Recent Best Bet Winners:
12/14 - LRC 9 Scathing/Aiming Straight Exacta ($20.30)
12/15 - LRC 7 Princess Kendra/Be a Lady Exacta ($39.60)
12/16 - LRC 9 King Glorious Exacta ($38.50), Trifecta ($260.90)
12/17 - LRC 9 TASUNKE WITCO ($7.20), Exacta ($11.20)
12/19 - SUN 9 WESTMONT ($4.00)
12/22 - LRL 8 MR. BENZ ($6.40), Exacta ($33.40)
12/26 - SA 6 BOWIES HERO ($8.80), Exacta ($34.10)
12/29 - SA 5 Pubilius Syrus/Inscom Exacta ($6.20)
Saturday's 8th race from Santa Anita Park (12-30-17) is the Grade 3 Midnight Lute Stakes for 3-year-olds and up dashing six and one-half furlongs on the main track.
#5 AMERICANIZE (2-1) was ambitiously spotted in the G1 Cigar Mile and he was not disgraced in a 4th place finish at 18-1. He was on the upswing and on a roll in SoCal before that (156 Today's Racing Digest Final Rating Nov 3).
#4 Masochistic (5-2) is now trained by Baffert and the infamous sprinter is 4-for-4 at this distance. He runs well fresh and should be forwardly placed under Van Dyke. He earned 153+ Final Ratings in 3 of his last 5 starts.
#1 Silent Bird (5-2) is 4-for-5 at SA and is capable of winning a race like this (144+ Final Ratingss in 4 of last 5).
#7 Tough Sunday (8-1) exits a turf sprint wire job at DMR (141 Final) and the consistent, versatile sort owns a couple of local dirt wins.
THE PLAYS:
#5 to win
Exacta 5/1-7
Trifecta Key 5/1-4-7
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