Singles for Pick 6 carryovers at Aqueduct and Fair Grounds

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares horses to single in a pair of Saturday Pick 6 carryovers at Aqueduct and Fair Grounds.

Aqueduct, Race 4: $24,422 Pick 6 carryover (1:46 p.m. ET)

After going unsolved on Friday, Saturday’s $1 Pick 6 at Aqueduct boasts a non-jackpot carryover worth $24,422.

The feature event in the sequence is Race 8, the $120,000 Garland of Roses S. for fillies and mares dashing six furlongs on dirt. A field of seven has turned out, with the improving four-year-old #5 Olga Isabel (5-2) looming as a possible single.

Olga Isabel has gone 3-for-3 since transferring to the care of high-percentage trainer Brad Cox. On July 22, she wired a one-mile allowance at Ellis Park by 7 1/4 lengths. On Aug. 30, she led all the way to win a one-mile $62,500 allowance optional claimer at Saratoga. And on Oct. 26, she cut back to 6 1/2 furlongs and wired a $100,000 allowance optional claimer at Keeneland by two lengths.

These three victories yielded sharp Brisnet Speed ratings of 95, 96, and 94. Olga Isabel has trained strongly since her last race (even clocking a bullet half-mile in :46 4/5 at Churchill Downs), so we’re willing to single this red-hot filly in her stakes debut.

Fair Grounds, Race 8: $3,596 Pick 6 carryover (4:30 p.m. ET)

Saturday is Louisiana Champions Day at Fair Grounds, and the stakes-packed card is even more intriguing now that there’s a $3,596 non-jackpot carryover up for grabs in the $1 Pick 6.

The sequence gets underway in Race 8, the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Turf S. for Louisiana-breds racing about 1 1/16 miles on turf. Closers are faring well in 1 1/16-mile turf races this meet, which cements morning line favorite #8 Who Took the Money (9-5) as the horse to beat.

Who Took the Money routinely produces big homestretch rallies regardless of whether he’s competing on dirt or turf. He’s spent much of his career racing on dirt, but his 5-3-1-0 tally on turf includes decisive victories in the last two editions of this race.

A third straight Louisiana Champions Day Turf victory appears likely for Who Took the Money. He enters off a close runner-up finish in the Jacob V. Morreale Memorial S. on dirt at Fair Grounds and should fire a peak performance in his third start back from a layoff, which is a winning move 22% of the time for trainer Bret Calhoun. We’ll single Who Took the Money to start the Pick 6.

Good luck!