Sports

Ed Fountaine’s stakes spot plays

BONNIE HEATH TURF CUP HANDICAP

Calder, 10th race. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, turf, Florida-bred 3-year-olds and up. Post: 4:17 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Pickapocket came off a six-month layoff to rally for second over this course and today stretches out in distance. He fits for class, switches from an apprentice rider to Julien Leparoux and gets five pounds from the favorite, Solder’s Dancer.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

MRS. REVERE

Churchill Downs, ninth race. Grade 2. Purse: $175,000. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, turf, 3-year-old fillies. Post: 4:37 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Striking Dancer came from 12 lengths back turning for home with a powerful rush to win by 51⁄4 lengths over a yielding course at Keeneland last out. In two starts over the Churchill turf, the daughter of Smart Strike romped to a maiden win and was a close second in her stakes debut.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

ON TRUST

Hollywood Park, eighth race. Purse: $75,000. 71⁄2 furlongs, California-bred 3-year-olds and up. Post: 7:05 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Five-year-old gelding Bestdressed owns three wins over Hollywood’s synthetic Cushion track. Two starts back, in the Cal Cup Sprint, he rallied to finish third just 13/4 lengths behind the eventual Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner, Dancing in Silks.

TV: TVG, OTB Ch. 71