It’s already a $100,000 question: Who can pick the last six winners at Santa Anita this Friday, April 4? If it’s you, play the $2 Pick 6 that begins in race 5 with a $100,819 carryover pool that could grow exponentially. The favorites should have a big say in the outcome, keeping a lot of live tickets in the running.

SA 5th race (6:08 p.m. EST) -- UNBREAKABLE TRUST sprints for the third time on dirt. He ‘ran out of time’ with a 4-wide stretch rally in his debut for $100,000, settling for second to next-out stakes winner Pali Kitten. He tracked the favorites in a fast-paced long sprint last out, but couldn’t gain in the stretch on Maiden Special Weight class dropper Toughness and runner-up War To Remember, who just missed in MSW company next out with a 71 Beyer speed figure. He shows a strong March workout tab since his last race and is a solo play to start the Pick 6.

SA 6th race (6:39 p.m. EST) -- MS McWHINNEY launched a wide bid from last at the quarter pole, gained late on the front-end winner and galloped out in front at 6F. She returns to a distance that she conquered on the Santa Anita lawn last summer off a sharp :59-1/5 workout on the all-weather track. ROSELEE MAY sat an ideal ground-saving trip and reeled in the clear leader with a flourish in the final sixteenth to earn the top speed figure of her career. Trainer Michael McCarthy has a 26-percent ‘repeat’ rate from his last 82 winners.

SA 7th race (7:09 p.m. EST) -- THORNE HOUSE, a lightly-raced but hard-hitting 6-year-old, has three wins by a combined 12-1/2 lengths on dirt after a near miss in his debut. He did benefit from a speed bias that produced five wire-to-wire winners the same day he romped by 6-1/2 lengths in an allowance sprint at Del Mar last July. He joins the parade of early favorites on our ticket.

SA 8th race (7:39 p.m. EST) -- In a field void of quality turf sprint speed, NANCI GRIFFITH is a viable longshot in this 6-1/2F allowance off of her three in-the-money finishes from four grass starts at one mile. She led at the stretch call in her seasonal debut before the co-favorites passed by, then she weakened late two starts back in a ‘triple key’ race. Morning-line favorite LOVELY IDAHO should control the pace as she did in a maiden-breaking win off a six-month layoff when she kept the 4-to-5 runner-up in the rearview mirror. BLUE WILDCAT finished second in 4 of her last 8 starts at various venues during a light schedule. She finished behind two short-priced winners and exited a triple key race in another.

SA 9th race (8:09 p.m. EST) -- WOUND UP looms the day’s most prohibitive favorite, having won three consecutive sprints since a December claim by 17-1/2 lengths with an average 96 Beyer. Can’t go beyond him in his current form.

SA 10th race (8:39 p.m. EST) -- THE SHILLELAGH improved with Lasix in his first try beyond 6F. He checked while making a rail run into the far turn but regrouped to finish a willing third behind the 4-to-5 winner. DYNODAVE is another longshot to consider in this one-mile turf allowance for California breds. He broke his maiden at the distance and should get an ideal pace set-up to rally into in his third start of a cycle. NO POKING AROUND, threw his head around the first turn, settled into a good stalking position and rallied 3-wide to finish second in a repeat attempt at the distance. CHECK’S ON THE WAY tracked a lively 6F pace and wore down the favorite in the final sixteenth to prevail. GOT SOUL’S ascending speed figures produced a wire-to-wire victory in his first route try in an 11-horse field.

Suggested $2 Ticket
SA 5th Race: 2
SA 6th Race: 2, 4
SA 7th Race: 1
SA 8th Race: 2, 4
SA 9th Race: 2, 8
SA 10th Race: 1, 3, 4, 6, 9
Cost: $80