ANALYSIS

BEST BET: RACE 4, RIGHT TRAPPE

FIRST RACE

The card Friday includes an allowance route that drew some promising 3-year-olds, among them a half-brother to Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell. In the opener, ARTIE’S ROSE moves back to two turns off a pair of competitive sprint races and she’s run well at this configuration in the past. WEST SIDE GIRL meets winners for the first time off the clear maiden score, and it came a two turns here at Oaklawn. She’s a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Free My Soul. IT’SFIFTYSHADETIME makes her two-turn debut and she gets pedigree support for the task.

SECOND RACE

REINSURE was just edged at this level last out and is a logical choice back. LAUTREC removes blinkers after a one-race appearance in the equipment. DANCE AN IRISH JIG exits a key race. The thirdplace finisher came back to take a $20K maiden claimer at OP with a Beyer of 56 and the fifthplace finisher, Leave It to Kitten, a $,7500 maiden claimer, also at TP, with a Beyer of 54.

THIRD RACE

Fair Grounds invader DULCIMER DAME moves back to dirt and the last time she ran on the main track she was a winner. The start came at one turn, and she’s cutting back to that configuration, too. FLATOYA has been showing speed against steeper and the asset should serve her well at this five and a half furlong trip. MS FALSETTO adds blinkers.

FOURTH RACE

RIGHT TRAPPE appears to have much in her favor. She has a racing experience edge on these. She has a start over the track. And she owns the field’s best Beyer Figures. GRAN MANNA is another with racing experience, and that makes her appealing. The filly she was fourth to last out went on to win the Grade 3 Pocahontas in her next start, then was third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. This is GRAN MANNA’s first race since July. FOUNDER’S DAY debuts for a stallion who is getting 18 percent first-out winners.

FIFTH RACE

CALIFORNIA SWING is a class play as one who has been facing steeper. ROCKO’S WHEEL comes off a useful comeback race in which he set the pace to the later stages in his first out since August. He would seem poised to move forward. DRIVEN TO COMPETE has been plying his trade against steeper, making him appealing on class.

SIXTH RACE

RIPTIDE ROCK ran a big race in his two-turn debut last out and the start was also his first on dirt and first since October. For the effort he earned what ranks as this field’s best last-race Beyer Speed Figure. COUSIN LARRY is a half-brother to Kentucky Oaks winner Proud Spell ($2.1M). As for the race he exits, note the third-place finisher came back in his next start to run fourth in the Southwest here Saturday, a race won by champion Essential Quality. COUSIN LARRY is well-versed at this mile and a sixteenth trip. Triple Crown nominee KINETIC SKY, who has finished first in two of his three starts, in November was third to a quality kind of winner in Proxy.

SEVENTH RACE

PERUVIAN APPEAL was part of a strong field of fillies and mares last out, and some of those runners went on to face stakes rivals one race later. PERUVIAN APPEAL was making her first start since July that afternoon and would seem to have reason to move forward in her second race back. A THOUSAND REASONS exits same deep race as top choice, and this one disputed the pace in what was her first race in two months. CHERISHED has speed and a post that might give Cohen options. She’s also back at Oaklawn, where she is 2-for-3.

EIGHTH RACE

VAULT is moving back into the overnight ranks

following four consecutive stakes starts, her latest a tossout as her trouble line noted she “dwelt” at the start. She also moves back to a mile and a sixteenth and she popped a career-high Beyer Figure of 91 at this trip when second in the Obeah at Del Park in June. On a pedigree point, VAULT is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Mirth ($395K).

PIECE OF MY HEART gives up recency to top choice as this marks her first start since August, but like how well she ran over the local strip a year ago. PIECE OF MY HEART won an allowance and stepped up and took the Gardenia over a number of ship in rivals, including some who brought stakes credentials from Southern California. MUCHO

AMOR, like top two, is proven class as a stakes winner. She moves back to two turns for the first time in a while and when last seen at this mile and a sixteenth trip she was second by a neck in a stakes at Emerald.

NINTH RACE

JAMES’S MOONSHINE returns to racing with Arkansas-bred company with the meet now on at Oaklawn. He owns a strong series of Beyer Figures. PAPA STAR has recency on top choice and could be sitting on a peak race here, in his third out since last April. EXPLOSIVE HUMOUR tests the Arkansas-bred ranks for the first time after hooking some quality open foes at Remington, among them Senor Buscador and Flash of Mischief.