USA Bets For Friday

13:15 Gulfstream R1 No9 Wild Lisa (2) - lightly raced improver who comes into this off a career mark of 8-2-0-0 and on the back of winning last start at Calder over 1 mile, held rail in a mild speed battle through the early and middle stages before skipping clear into the stretch and extending its magin to 1.5l on the wire, put a further 8l back to 3rd who came out and won next start franking the form out of the rac,e likely to get it soft on the front end with little seen speed engaged, well bred compared to foes by Wilds Again out of a Rare Performer mare, at peak fitness and in this up to its ears.
13:44 Gulfstream R2 No4 Divine Master (1) - comes into this 1st up from a spell on the back of winning 4 of last 6 at end of last prep including a 3.5l score over 1m on the good turf at Monmouth in Optional Claiming $50K company, stalked a clear leader in 2nd that day and kicked away with a superior turn of foot in early stretch extending the margin all the way to the line, only one other seen leader here will provide a perfect trip tracking or coleading at an even tempo, will prove hard to run down, minor query about value prepost but looks the best of these.
14:12 Gulfstream R3 No14 Jungle Raj (1)
14:12 Gulfstream R3 No5 Classy Orientation (1)
14:42 Gulfstream R4 No1 Fortune Rose (1) - a fair few seen chances in this field of 8 but it is Fortune Rose who is drawn the rail and gets the chance to go straight to the front and dictate proceedings, having 3rd career start here and resumes from a spell, on debut at Woodbine over 1m1/16th dictated a slightly below par tempo getting 5l clear entering the stretch, battled on strong one paced down the lane extending the margin to 10l on the line in Mdn$73K company, well bred by Bertrando out of a Argentinian bred Salt Marsh mare, other major query runners can be found on various angles but this ticks a lot of boxes and warrants support at the decent each way price prepost.
15:12 Gulfstream R5 No2 Armonk (1)
15:12 Gulfstream R5 No7 Russian Rosie (1)
15:42 Gulfstream R6 No3 C.S. Silk (1) - the pace will be very fast here suiting one that can either handle high pressure or track leaders and show a sharp turn of foot, leant towards this one who is 1st up from a spell over the 7f trip facing G2 company, broke maiden at 2nd start when tracked leaders over 6f and kicked on to win by 6l in $41KMdn company, totally franked that next start winning over 1m after a 2 month break scoring in G3 company at Arlington by 6l, dictated from the front that day at a hectic tempo well above par, next start dropped out after leading in the BC Juv Fillies division, last start died on its run close home when 2nd btn 2.5l in G3 company, has produced 3 bullet works out of 4 in prep for return, ticks a lot of boxes, well bred by hot young sire Medaglia D'Oro out of a Settlement Day mare.
16:12 Gulfstream R7 No5 Kickapoo (1)
16:12 Gulfstream R7 No1 Fitzaslew (1)
16:43 Gulfstream R8 No1 Break Water Edison (2) - comes into this resuming from a spell, go on 2nd up effort last prep when btn 1.2l over 6.5f in G2 company with a further big gap of 5.7l back to 3rd adding depth and merit to the form around the first two home that day, only btn 4.7l 4th in G1 company next start then scored at last start in G3 company by 1.7l, likely to get a good trip tracking the speed from better than midfield, suited to the 7f trip, produced a bullet work doing its last peice over 3 panels on 28 Jan, well bred by Lemon Drop Kid out of a Storm Creek mare, $525K 2yo purchase at Ocala in 2008, ticks a lot of boxes for this, well placed.
Santa Anita R1 PP5 Cold Ruler (3) - lightly raced improver who comes into this having its 3rd career start on the back of last start finishing 3rd btn 2.5l by African Grey over the same track and distance it faces here, winner franked the form making it 2 on end next start suggesting the $32K Mdn Clm tag carried that day was strong for the class, subject to considerable improvement for fitness and race experience, likely to get a soft trip on the front end and kick hard into deep stretch under the pace scenario making it hard to run down, very well bred by Empire Maker out of the Sadlers Wells mare Frost Flower who was unraced but from a very good family, very hard to beat here.
Santa Anita R2 PP3 Exquisite (1) - open affair with form refs coming from everywhere, leant towards the NZ shipper Exquisite who comes into this 1m turf $56K Allowance off a 2 month lay off, 2 back broke through in $49K allowance company by as neck after pulling fiercely midrace when leading at a well below par tempo, found plenty under pressure, likely to be better acclimatized and improve further again here, deceivingly well bred for turf by Golan out of a Kaapstad mare, Golan is hot in NZ currently and Kaapstad has won sire titles there previously and consistently is a top3/4 NZ sire who best can win at G1 level in Australia on the turf, should get a good trip on pace either coleading at a slow tempo or tracking a slow tempo -1l to -2l, happy to be on in an open affair.
Santa Anita R3 Pp5 Band Of Thunder (2) - consistently thereabouts against stronger last few and switches off the turf here back to a more suitable surface, go on effort 6 back at Fairplex Park tracked leader through on the rail to get 1l cldear in early stretch over 6.5f before cloearing out to score by 2l in Optional Claiming $40K company, clearly up to the required class to win here and holding form well with a career mark of 29-9-6-5 and $200k in stakes, suited by a similar trip here tracking leadings at an even pace, well bred type by Point Given out of the Dixieland Band mare Golden Band, minor query yet to win at Santa Anita in 5 attempts.
Santa Anita R4 PP3 Wild Apart (1)
Santa Anita R5 PP2 Suit Yourself (1) - 4th up from a spell here and at peak fitness now on the back of last start closing with big pars in deep stretch coming from off the pace over 6.5f to score going away by 1.2l on the wire, overall pace was slowish that day adding good depth and merit to the win against the pace bias, 2 preps ago was only 3l and 4l off winning in $62K claming company, this a big drop from that level still despite rise in class on last start win, decently bred by Storm Cat line stallion Tribal Rule out of a Man From Eldorado mare, likely to get behind a fastish pace here which suits its off the pace style, ticks enough bozes to suggest it can make the next step here.
Santa Anita R6 PP4 Scibelli (1)
Santa Anita R6 No5 Sterkel (1)
Santa Anita R7 No1 Rail Trip (1) - lightly raced improver who comes into this having 3rd career start on the back of winning both so far by 3.5l each time over 6.5f, last time out in $38K Allowance company, asked to extend to the 1m/1/16th route trip here and suited under the pace scenario, drawn the rail to find the front under a slowish pace, 3rd home last start has since come out and won again next start franking the form of this ones 2nd win, also well bred by hot young son of AP Indy, Jump Start out of a Carson City mare.