Super Screener: 3 Derby preps plus a price play at Gulfstream

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It might not be the biggest Kentucky Derby prep weekend to date, star-wise, but it is the busiest with a trio of points races to accompany the release of the Triple Crown nominees and Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool 4.

This weekend's Super Screener takes a look at all three Derby prep races as well as four other stakes, including a pair that make up an all-stakes Pick 3 at Tampa Bay Downs.

But for his play of the weekend, Mike Shutty goes off the Derby trail for an opportunity at Gulfstream Park, the Ladies' Turf Sprint Stakes.

"When handicapping these five-furlong, turf sprint races, the first screen is identifying runners that specialize at this abbreviated sprint distance," Shutty said. "No. 5 Charlie T boasts a 5-for-5 record in the exacta going this distance on turf and will be making her debut on the Gulfstream turf. As a lightly raced 4-year-old, she brings a stellar overall record to this event, having missed the trifecta just once in nine starts, and that came in her lone try going beyond 5 1/2 furlongs.

"Her last race was the perfect prep for this in that she met similar company going a half-furlong farther. After carving hot fractions, she held on gamely for second. Form-cycle analysis is indicating that no other horse in this race will improve more over her previous start than this filly."

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