Check out my Friday (1-9-26) Santa Anita Park Race 9 analysis below.
SA 9 (OC-50k/1x, 8f) – Post Time 7:00 PM ET
Primary – #5 NAFISA, #4 Scary Fast Ride
Secondary – #6 Lolo Le Plume, #2 Time to Shine
Horse Comments:
#5 Nafisa (5-2) finally picked up her first career win in her thirteenth start Nov. 23 and the show finisher was a next-out winner. She stretches back out for Bob Baffert and might be the target under her winning rider Kazushi Kimura.
#4 Scary Fast Ride (3-1) set a pressured pace from the inside post and finished 4th of 5 (beaten 3/4th of a length) in a similar flat mile dirt race at DMR Nov. 9. She removes blinkers and ran well in all six local starts (6 3-1-2).
#6 Lolo Le Plume (2-1) raced wide and came again to miss by a neck in the same DMR race Scary Fast Ride exits. Umberto Rispoli sticks with the 1-for-14 filly and she settled for minor awards in half of her starts.
#2 Time to Shine (8-1) switches surfaces in her third start off a layoff and Mark Glatt is a profitable 23% with his turf/dirt starters. She raced on dirt once and she won that MOC-62.5k affair at this course/distance June 2025.
Wagers:
#5 to win
Exacta 4-5/4-5-6
Trifecta 2-4-5/2-4-5/6
January 2026 Bettor Bet$ Free Pick Winners
Jan. 3 – Sister Troienne ($2.60)
Jan. 7 – G T Five Hundred ($7.24), Trifecta ($132.44)
Jan. 8 – Sweet Odyssey ($5.60), Exacta ($20.00), Trifecta ($72.00)
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