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Free Wednesday SmartCap Horse Racing Pick for the 7th at Sam Houston Race Park, a $50K Optional claimer going six furlongs

For today, Feb. 19, we are focusing on Sam Houston Race Park. Our race of the day is the 7th, a $50K Optional claimer going six furlongs. This is a dirt race for three-year olds which have never won two races or they’ll automatically be eligible for the claim of $50K.

#7 Long Weekend (7/5) has the best last as does #2 Alternate Time (6/1).

Long Weekend also has best overall class and speed while Alternate Time has best last two.

Equibase rates this race an 82 and the entrants who have run that number are:

#2 Alternate Time ran an 84 on October 26th

#4 Code Runner (5/2) hit an 82, two races back on December 15th

#7 Long Weekend, who has only raced two races, ran a 92 in its first race on June 23rd at Churchill Downs. As predicted, he went off third in the odds and dumped. Of course, Green Light Go and Scabbard beat him that day. Scabbard ran fifth in the Lecomte and sixth in the first division of the Risen Star this weekend past. So, apparently the connections no longer considered him a Derby contender and put him on the bench since August 10th. His trainer, Thomas Amoss, is 18% with horses that have been off six months +. He has run some very noteworthy works since: 4f in :47.4, 3f in :36.8 and a bullet 5f in :59.4, the best out of 43 others. This was on January 20th and the two subsequent ones were pedestrian which tells me they’re ready and not wanting to kill it. He will be a tough out.

For today, my hard-earned pesos are going on #2 Alternate Time. On top of it being a better price, he too has chased Derby Contenders, Shoplifted and Answer In. Its trainer, Bret Calhoun is 29% overall and 37% with jockey DeShawn Parker in the irons. Parker listed as a hot jock, according to Brisnet, having 19 mounts last week, winning five, placing in two and getting up for show in three of them. Calhoun is 24% with horses off two to six months, 27% in route to sprint and 31% in moving horses down in class.

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· The graph on the right is the horse's last numbers

· The graph on the left is its overall figures.

· Bold Yellow means best; muted means second best and gray is worth mentioning

· The bottom number is the class rating; the top its speed

SmartCap analysis of the seventh at Sam Houston Race Park on 2/19/20
SmartCap analysis of the seventh at Sam Houston Race Park on 2/19/20RT

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