Santa Anita P-6 discussion

[cato]

I'm looking atthe card today ($400,000 + carryover) and am puzzled with the 9th race.

MSW 8.5

#2 Wholly John is the 5-2 favorite.

He ran twice as a 2 year old in 2002
Once as a 3 year old in 2003

He finished 11th, 8th and 4th

And now he is coming back after over 13 months off as the 5-3 ML favorite?

I do see a good trainer and jockey and some good works, but jeez, this seems a bit odd

Can someone chime in? Is he "really on his oats" or something like that?

Cheers (and good luck today)

Cato

[lefthandlow]

I'd throw the horse out if it wasn't for CRAIG DOLLASE..other
than that the horse appears to be a closers and there is good speed in the race to get it back.The 414 day lay off is a joke..Only in cal can they get horses to run off of a long layoff.I think most
of those horses are household pets.I'd take the 1,4,8 to beat it.
Also the horse comes back in a rte.Just my opinion but leave it out of the pick 6.Hope speed holds up and this one is rank and
out of the box late...

[SAL]

Beware of throwing out any horse by this trainer. He does well with pretty much all kinds (layoffs, stretching out, turf/dirt, etc.) Not to mention that the ML favs win more than 40% of these types of races. Also the maturity factor might play a part.

[shanta]

nice winnner @18 beans in the horses you listed to use in pick
Richie

[lefthandlow]

Thanks Shanta, I bet the 1 and 4 to win as the 8 was a shorter
price than I'd like to play.At least someone is reading these.That guy SAL is pretty good at SAX also.I like to read his comments..LL