Michael Make My Day

Let's try a couple of horses trained by Michael Maker today, at two different tracks. In the second at Aqueduct, Pressure Point (3-1) hasn't won since his career debut, 11 races ago, in November 2008. However, he's consistently run competitively against what is just plain far, far better company than he will meet today, dropping in for a tag for the first time. Don't really have anything more to say about this race, just a clear selection on class.

In the 8th at Gulfstream [Update: race off the grass, nevermind....no, we're not in that part of Florida], Cruisin'nthebridle (6-1) comes off a freshening for a barn which wins at 25% in the 61-180 day layoff category. Plus, she's reunited with Ramon Dominguez, with whom she had two solid efforts on the NYRA circuit over the summer. Solid closes and a nice progression of speed figures for this one if you take out the mile and a half race, and the Saratoga race at which she stumbled at the start; morning line looks like a bargain here. Toocleverforwords (7-2) and Salsa Star (6-1) both come out of the allowance race won by Tottie, who came back to win the Suwannee River as the unexpected favorite (and benefiting from a ridiculously slow pace).