All Stakes Pick 4 at Turfway Park on Saturday

A quartet of lucrative stakes races will be held during Saturday’s Turfway Park Synthetic Championships. 

Race 4 Wager

$.50-cent Pick 4: 2,4,5,7,8 with 2,6,11,12 with 6,7 with 8,12 ($40)

Race 4 – My Charmer S. 

Fillies and mares will travel two turns to commence the play. I feel that the long shots will be overmatched in the opening leg and will use the handful of ladies most endorsed on the morning line. I will advance to leg two using #2 Forever Dixie (7-2), #4 Dana’s Beauty (2-1), #5 Everland (6-1), #7 Ghostly Gal (3-1), and #8 Take A Stand (6-1). 

Race 5 - Holiday Inaugural S. 

A full group of fillies and mares will dash six panels in the second leg of the sequence. I’m not sure that I love the addition of blinkers for local dynamo #6 Nice As Pie (7-2), but the sophomore is 4-for-4 locally and takes top billing in the affair. The Dede McGehee homebred faces a tall task in the big field, but she loves the venue and could surely be the one with her best effort. 

Kevin Attard’s #12 Love to Shop (15-1), the Christophe Clement-conditioned #11 Love Appeals (4-1), and Joe Orseno’s #2 Beauty of the Sea (10-1), will also be added to my ticket. 

Race 6 – Prairie Bayou S.

An overflow field of 14 has been entered for the 1 1/16-mile endeavor. Canadian invader #6 Dresden Row (9-2) is my top pick in the tough event. The Lorne Richards pupil has grabbed a pair of Grade 3 wins in 2024 and comes off a big runner-up performance in the Autumn S. (G2) last time out. I’m a big fan of the son of Lord Nelson who sports a 7-5-1-1 career mark on the synthetic. 

The well-bred #7 Wadsworth (3-1) merits inclusion in the wager for conditioner Brad Cox. The Quality Road gelding has a lot of class, good local experience, and comes off a nice try when just missing to a very good one on the Churchill lawn last timeout. Florent Geroux will pilot the Godolphin color bearer. 

Race 7 – Holiday Cheer S.

My top pick is Larry Rivelli’s #8 One Timer (6-1) in the closing leg, but he’s tough to single. This Trappe Shot gelding is high quality and 3-for-3 on synthetic, and the Grade 2 victor also can win from on or off the pace, as well. His best run will make him formidable beneath E. T. Baird. 

It’s not possible for me to exclude Canadian star #12 Patches O’Houlihan (3-1). The Robert Tiller pupil thrives on the All Weather with an 11-9-1-0 mark, and the speedy Ontario-bred is all class. Sofia Vives comes in to pilot the Reload gelding.