Fair Grounds Today - Feb 5th

Fair Grounds Recap – Feb 1st

Fast main track and good turf course. Early-pressing types best in dirt sprints. Patient types held the edge in routes, and turf seemed to play fair.

Hat trick for Robby Albarado, and ‘Cisco Torres booted home a pair on the sod.

Hotep (3^rd race) looked good in optional claiming route tally from off the pace. Canadian bred is now on the road to the Louisiana Derby and may ultimately end up in the Queen’s Plate.

On the analysis front, I got home tops Stacey Lee ($9.20), Dear Jesse (best bet #2, $8.20), Brentwood Bullet ($8.60), and Biglie Smallworld (best bet #3, $4.60). I also tabbed the early double ($23.80), early pick three ($46), 3^rd race exacta (best bet #1, $13.20), Pick 3 (race 5-7, $575.80), and Pick 3 (race 6-8, $97.20).

Fair Grounds Preview – Feb 5th

A 9-race program will be run on Friday at the Fair Grounds. Pick six carryover of $1,910. AM clouds are expected to give way to PM sun with a high temperature of 57.

The feature race is a state bred optional claiming event, and this is my Horse Racing Nation free selection of the day.

My daily full cards from Fair Grounds are available through Today’s Racing Digest (free sign up). I also have a Digest free pick page, and my Friday free selection is the 3rd race from Fair Grounds.

Daily results and video can be found on the Horse Racing Nation Fair Grounds Race Course page.

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