Betting With, and Against, Maysam in the Sunland Park Oaks

A total of seven sophomore fillies will vie in Sunday’s $250,000 Sunland Park Oaks at Sunland Park. The one-mile affair is led by impressive debut heroine #4 Maysam (9-5) from the barn of Bob Baffert. 

Maysam – With

• $20 trifecta key 4 with 1,5 ($40)

Maysam – Against

• $2 superfecta 1,5 with 1,4,5 with 1,4,5 with all ($32)
  $.50-cent superfecta 1,5 with 1,4,5 with all with 1,4,5 ($8)

Maysam brought $500,000 at OBS in March as a two-year-old and looked well worth the investment in her initial offering when drawing off to a six-length victory at Santa Anita on January 24. The daughter of Game Winner earned a solid 87 Brisnet Speed figure for her work in that heat, and she closed well enough at 6 1/2 furlongs to suggest that eight panels will be well within her scope. The Kentucky-bred has posted a pair of solid morning drills leading up to her first run in the stakes ranks, and she looks like an imposing figure in this endeavor. Juan Hernandez will be in the silks atop the fine prospect. 

If the top gun fails to fire at expected minuscule odds, then local hope #1 Rogue Justice (10-1) could benefit most of all. Trained by Todd Fincher, the Constitution three-year-old is still a maiden but is slowly improving, and I feel that the $120,000 juvenile purchase will run her best race while going long in this one. The Kentucky-bred closed with nice energy to be second behind a good one in the Borderplex S. in her local bow most recently and has drilled a bullet six panels in the interim. She is from a family with a lot of stakes power and could be next in line. Florent Geroux riding adds to her appeal. 

#5 Enchanting (7-2), one of two in the field for Steve Asmussen, won with relative ease at Sam Houston in her second lifetime appearance and could be a good prospect with additional seasoning. This Winchell homebred didn’t defeat the deepest field of all time in her maiden coup, but she was visually impressive in doing so and also has room for growth, as well. If the Gun Runner chestnut takes another step forward, then she will surely be in the hunt late with Ramon Vazquez taking the reins.