Santa Anita Race 6
1 - Bolt d'Oro
The 2017 San Felipe Stakes appears to be a two-horse race between the Mick Ruis trained Bolt d’Oro and Bob Baffert’s McKinzie. Both enter this grade II event with the field’s top numbers and stacked works leading into Saturday’s race. These two are tough to split but we’ll go with Bolt d’Oro as the top play as the Road to the Kentucky Derby continues. Bolt has been working impressively in the a.m., including posting back-to-back bullet workouts , something normally seen with Baffert runners and not Ruis. Javier Castellano comes to California for the mount and got the know the colt through those recent moves. Bolt d’Oro should get a nice stalking trip and has already proved he can handle the 1 1/16 mile trip with a win in the FrontRunner back in September. Bolt d’Oro is the top play in the 2017 San Felipe Stakes.