VAGRANCY
Belmont Park, ninth race. Grade 2. Purse: $200,000. 6½ furlongs, fillies and mares. Post: 5:06 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Nicole H was the 8-5 favorite carrying highweight of 124 pounds in the My Juliet at Parx, dueled through the stretch and finished fourth, beaten less than a length. She drops six pounds here and is re-united with Ramon Dominguez, who has won four times and missed by a neck the last five times he rode her.
TV: HRTV, TVG, NYRA Channel 71
CALIFORNIAN
Hollywood Park, eighth race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. 1¹/₈ miles, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 7:40 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Game On Dude was arguably the top older male horse in America last year with victories in the Santa Anita Handicap and Goodwood and a strong second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He also missed in the Hollywood Gold Cup by a nose, his only start over this track. This marks his first start since an unsuccessful run in the Dubai World Cup. Works indicate he’s ready.
TV: TVG, NYRA Channel 71
MINT JULEP
Churchill Downs, eighth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. 1 1/16 miles, turf, fillies and mares. Post: 9:39 p.m.
LOWDOWN: The 5-year-old mare Tapitsfly is in the best form of her career since winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies as a 2-year-old. Two starts back, she was beaten 1 ½ lengths in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley at Keeneland, and last out she lost by a length in the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile over this course on Derby Day.
TV: HRTV, NYRA Channel 71
LAST WEEK: At Belmont, Aqsaam (9-2) was fifth in the Sheepshead Bay; at Monmouth, Pants On Fire won the Skip Away paying $2.80, $2.20, $2.10; at Hollywood, Mr. Commons (3-5) was second in the American Handicap paying $2.40 to place, $2.10 to show.
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