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Let’s look at the race of the day for today from BugBoy.net and the DRF. It’s an old classic 6 furlong dash on the grass from Hollywood Park which opens its annual fall meeting and was able to pull together nine runners. It’s an OClm62K NW2X. For those of you knew to horse racing the conditions are what makes the races competitive and bet-worthy.

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BREAKDOWN

This is a pretty good race where you have the top jocks that will be competing at the meet each riding a horse that has competed against each other before in Rob, Bob and Dave, Lt. Hopeful, Sassou, and Shadow of Illinois.

This looks like the race to us. We have multiple turf winners against horses who are non-winners of four and we have an east coast horse for Christophe Clement in Perfect Casting. Remember in the BC the east coasters didn’t fare well the past two years out west but Clement has success out west. This one will be closing late as the luke warm favorite.

The speed from the inside and the pressure from WiredforTwoTwenty will succumb to the stalker and the deep closer.

Rob, Bob and Dave will be the stalker and get the first jump on the leaders. He’s non-winners of four but with all the shifting of riders the race appears to be his with Solis and Go Go as the closers.

Good luck!

P.S. — Remember this is a hypothesis until it happens.