1/ST BET Horse Racing Predictions from Santa Anita:

We are excited to announce a renewed partnership with the fine folks and handicappers at 1/ST BET. Jeremy Plonk and Jeff Siegel will be sharing their expertise Wednesday-Sunday on a weekly basis to pass along some ponies that they like for races at various tracks around the country, including Santa Anita.

For this Sunday, October 13 article, Jeff Siegel shares everything you need to know for today’s racing card at Santa Anita.

Santa Anita 2nd Race – Post: 1:30 PT. Degree of confidence: B+
Top Selection/Prime Play: 3-Just Before Dawn
Backups: none

Forecast: Just Before Dawn is a first-timer with a series of outstanding workouts that should have him fit and ready for a top performance in this extended sprint for older maidens. The son of Justify – a $625,000 weanling purchase at Keeneland – is a half-brother to multiple Grade-1 winner Moonshine Memories and finally makes it to the most late in his 3-year-old season for trainer B. Baffert, who hits at a phenomenal 30% with debut runners. This isn’t the strongest maiden field we’ve seen this meeting, so if this promising sophomore colt can avoid any mistakes, he should be hard to beat as a win play and rolling exotic single.

Santa Anita – 6th race – Post: 3:30 PT. Degree of confidence: B+
Top Selection/Prime Play: 6-Uptown Preacher
Other Contenders: none.

Forecast: Uptown Preacher has trained considerably better than a typical maiden claimer, but she’s been stopped and started on many times and was scratched late in the recent Del Mar summer season out of what looked like a winning spot. She finally makes it to the post (hopefully) in a rather soft affair, and if she duplicates her morning ability in the afternoon, the C. Gaines-trained four-year-old shouldn’t have any problem handling this modest assignment. At 5/2 on the morning line, she offers good gambling value in the win pool and as a rolling exotic single.