GOTHAM
Aqueduct, 10th race. Grade 3. Purse: $250,000. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:12 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Turf Melody, a stakes winner going a mile at Remington Park two races back, finished sixth of 10 last out in the Grade 3 LeComte at Fair Grounds against a much tougher field than he is facing today.
TV: HRTV, TVG, OTB Ch. 71
PALM BEACH
Gulfstream Park, ninth race. Grade 3. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, turf, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:22 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Dean’s Kitten, sixth in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, rallied for fourth over the Gulf lawn in his first start of this year. The son of grass champion Kitten’s Joy should be along in time.
TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71
SANTA ANITA HANDICAP
Santa Anita, 10th race. Grade 1. Purse: $750,000. Mile-and-a-quarter, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 7:38 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Loup Breton is one of the few horses in the field proven at the distance, coming off a stretch-running score in the mile-and-a-quarter San Marcos. A grass horse, Loup Breton is switching to a synthetic surface for the first time, but the last two Breeders’ Cup Classics showed that Santa Anita’s Pro-Ride is kind to turf runners making the transition.
TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71
LAST WEEK: At Gulfstream, Sassy Image (3-1) was fifth in the Davona Dale. Changing Skies won The Very One paying $10, $6, $4. The Sham at Santa Anita was postponed because of rain.