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Jeremy's Final Sunday Keeneland Thoughts After Scratches

After a very productive handicapping day Saturday, the potential for a chalky Sunday existed before scratches. But now with fields of 4 remaining in Race 1 and just 3 in Race 4, the back half of this card gets emphasized even more as anyone’s best chance. It should be a fast track and good turf throughout the 9-race program.
Here are my updated picks following scratches, followed by a look at the late pick 4 sequence.
With 2 Million 1/ST Rewards Points available in Sunday’s Hit & Split promo for Keeneland, my friends at 1/ST BET and Xpressbet are giving players extra incentive for today’s late pick four. Here's my approach.

Race 6

Turf route maiden special weight races like this historically are magnets for decent prices, including a 14-1 winner Saturday in a similar spot. Big emphasis to the Gulfstream Park alumni in these races, so the lean goes to #10 Executive and #2 Thirteen Colonies off GP preps. Mix in #3 Lebowski and #12 Brushfire in a competitive race.

Race 7

Impel is a short-priced favorite at 9-5 on the morning line and certainly appreciate her 3-year-old campaign that saw her third in the Grade 1 Ashland locally. But she’s never faced older rivals and could find a difficult trip in a big field from the rail when she’s primarily routed. I’ll try to beat her. #10 Easy Red gets a red-hot Luis Saez (5 wins between Friday-Saturday) and has been rock-solid against elder allowance runners this winter at Fair Grounds. She’s by strong Keeneland dirt sire Omaha Beach, so 10-1 morning line is highly attractive. #5 Into Champagne has plenty of class and got a good run into her in the Hurricane Bertie for this second-off-the-layoff bid.

Race 8 | Grade 3 Giant’s Causeway Stakes

#4 Future Is Now is a deserving 9-5 morning line favorite and superior turf sprint mare. She’s drawn beautifully and won the Fall Meet’s equivalent race, the Franklin Stakes, over this course. The only concern is that all 14 races of her career came in the same form cycle, she’s never had a layoff. But she won her debut off of strictly training and this stakes has been won by fillies/mares making their seasonal return efforts each of the last 3 years. Chief rival #7 Pandora’s Gift comes off the same break and gets both a trainer and rider upgrade in her bid to turn the tables. Still prefer Future Is Now.

Race 9

#10 Storm the Streets can cap a big week for trainer Ian Wilkes and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. That duo teamed to win Tuesday’s Grade 1 Blue Grass with Burnham Square, while Hernandez added Saturday’s Grade 1 Apple Blossom on the road at Oaklawn with the Kenny McPeek-trained Thorpedo Anna. First-timers #4 Bourbon Street Boy and #12 Parade of Fears merit consideration, while #8 Big Salt Lick ran decently over this track in the Fall vs. tougher and fits. I’ll stand against the morning line favorite #2 Romantic Lead for a Jimmy Toner barn not noted for layoff types like this and on a massive class drop.

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Jeremy's Final Friday Keeneland Thoughts After Scratches

Fast-firm Friday conditions for the Doubledogdare Stakes Day program at Keeneland with no carryovers. The early double looks far less appealing than the later races in terms of prices. Budget accordingly if your opinions agree with me in that respect.
Knock on wood, the early scratches were kind to us on Friday with none of our original top-3 picks in any race impacted. The notable defection from the card is Big Invasion scratched in the Race 8 turf sprint allowance. I was swinging against him, but it would have been nice to see his 2025 return.
There’s no rhyme or reason, but we’ve hit the final race on the card 4 straight days, and one of my key plays today comes in Race 10 with #7 Aspen Dawn (6-1 morning line). The other keys run through Race 5 (#4 Marskman Queen 4-1 ML) and Race 7 (#7 Order Restrained 6-1 ML). The 20-1 ML longshot play of the card comes in Race 6 (#3 Clear the Air).
Here are Friday’s full-card picks:
 

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J. Plonk analysis for Keeneland
Good luck today and early Happy Easter wishes as we wrap up week 3 at Keeneland. Fast-firm conditions on a pleasant, but overcast afternoon is in the forecast. The $82,000+ pick 6 carryover will be races 6-11 and with Keeneland’s $1 minimum and presence of standout favorite in Race 8 (#5 Just a Touch), this figures to be more of a strong payout than life-changer. A loss by Just a Touch changes that discussion as he’s the only obvious single in the sequence and will be singled on a large number of tickets. Beat him and it gets far more interesting in terms of payoffs.

Only 1 major change after scratches as I lost by top choice in Race 4. I’ll elevate #5 El Joury to the top spot. Trainer Brendan Walsh is a sparkling 8-22 at the meet, won yesterday’s stakes at a $79 mutuel and could win 3 of his 4 entries today if I’m right. The key play today for me comes with Race 7 turf sprinter #3 Cloudwalker, drawn beautifully with a strong course record and for the Walsh-Jose Ortiz team. She’ll be a pick 6 single for me.

Look for Jose Ortiz to have a huge day with leading riders Irad Ortiz Jr., Flavien Prat and Luis Saez riding at Oaklawn for the $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap.

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