PARX RACING · RACE 7
UPCOMINGOptional Claiming $25,000
Claiming $25,000, for 3-year-olds and up.
Claiming race — every starter can be bought for the claiming price out of the race, so owners risk losing a horse that's clearly best. That keeps the field evenly matched on ability.
● Track record at 6 Furlongs: 67.21
The shape is the story here: there's little established early speed, so a tactical horse can control soft fractions up front and prove hard to run down.
Our number tops on #7 Vancougar (a presser/stalker, M/L 7-2). Recent figures: 83 · 97 · 79. It hit the board last time and stays in form. Backup is #4 Great Composer at 6-1. Use #5 Call Me Andy in exotic structures.
What would change our mind: a key scratch that reshapes the early pace, a sharp turf-to-dirt or surface switch off the rail, or live money showing up on a horse the board had dismissed. Watch the tote late.
The field, ranked
Our order, top to bottom.
Owns the highest recent figure here at 97. Went to the front early last out (early pace figure 93).
Comes in off a victory in a 5-horse optional claiming race at PRX. 0 for 5 at today's distance.
Switches from turf to dirt. Was running in allowance; today's optional claiming is an easier level on paper.
New trainer: Pompeyo Gomez had it last time, Michael V Pino now. Jockey switch: Eliseo Ruiz last out, Jamie Rodriguez today.
Winner of a 5-horse optional claiming race at DEL last time. Raises its level, optional claiming last time and optional claiming now.
Trending the wrong way on speed, 80 to 78 to 61. 2 wins from 5 starts at this distance.
Back to 6 furlongs off a 1 1/16 miles race. Figures have slipped: 83, 67, 56 over its last three.
At a glance
- Market favourite #5 CALL ME ANDY (3-1) — our number has it ranked #3.
- #5 CALL ME ANDY — our #3 number, about right at the windows (21.0% to their 20.9%).
- #7 VANCOUGAR — our top number on the card, about right at the windows (19.4% to their 18.5%).
- #3 COMPLEX MUSIC — our #4 number, about right at the windows (18.1% to their 16.7%).
Value read
- No price-band edge — the market looks efficient here.
Pace
Pressed Pace. Speed under pressure from multiple pressers. Likely honest pace, slight closer benefit.
Likely leader: #1 King Peanut; pressure from #7 Vancougar, #4 Great Composer; the shape helps #2 Cajun Venom, #3 Complex Music, #4 Great Composer; and works against #1 King Peanut.
Number = last-race early-pace figure. Green border = the shape helps; red = it works against.
Early speed and closing figures, horse by horse
Early Pace · E1 figure · front runners
Closing Kick · late-pace figure
How to play it
How we'd structure it from our ranking + pace read — an honest, pressed pace rewards the best horse — key tickets fit. Structures and logic only; the stake is yours.
Win
#7 Vancougar
Top of the field by a clear 10-pt IQ margin — the play stands alone to win.
Exacta — KEY
#7 Vancougar OVER #4 Great Composer · #5 Call Me Andy · #3 Complex Music
Key #7 Vancougar on top over your contenders for the 2nd slot.
Trifecta — KEY/WHEEL
#7 Vancougar / #4 Great Composer · #5 Call Me Andy · #3 Complex Music / #4 Great Composer · #5 Call Me Andy · #3 Complex Music · #1 King Peanut
#7 Vancougar keyed 1st, your contenders filling 2nd–3rd.
Bet types offered at this track →
DAILY DOUBLE / PICK 3 (RACES 7-8-9)
EXACTA / 50 CENT TRIFECTA /10 CENT SUPERFECTA