Canterbury Park Picks, Stats and More for Thursday, June 9th's Evening Card

Starting with this Thursday's card, we'll be posting some picks and statistics for each Thursday night program at Canterbury Park from some familiar faces from Horseplayer Monthly and elsewhere. 

Canterbury Park slashed takeouts for this meet, and they are definitely worth a look.

We also have a free guide to Canterbury, courtesy of Equinometry, with historical stats, racing styles, and other thoughts that should help you if you don't have experience playing Canterbury.  We'd like to thank Lenny Moon for putting the guide together.

Stats from Charlie Davis - inside posts have been good on the dirt!

All dirt:

 

Dirt Sprints:

Craig Milkowski (Chief Figure Maker for TimeformUS)

Horse in Focus At Canterbury on Thursday June 9th

Race 5:

D R C’s Pretty Sky (#1)

Tries turf sprint for the first time in 11th career start; TimeformUS Breeding Rating of 90 for turf sprints, only 77 for dirt sprints.

Top trainer Villafranco (98 TimeformUS Trainer Rating) ships to Canterbury for first time this year with this horse from Prairie Meadows---no turf course there.

Overcame three horse speed battle while on the outside to win last with a 100 TimeformUS Speed Figure in minor stakes race; best last race number in field

4/1 on ML

Candice Hare (Canterbury Park national handicapping correspondent)

R1: 5-4-3-2

R2: 2-3-6-4

R3: 9-2-7-4

R4: 7-11-9-5

R5: 1-2-3-8

R6: 4-1-5-3

R7: 5-4-1-3

R8: 5-6-3-1

R9: 4-2-6-1

Brian Arrigoni (Paddock analyst for Canterbury Park) 

1: 6/2/4

2: 2/3/5

3: 2/4/10

4: 5/6/9

5: 1/5/2

6: 4/2/3

7: 7/5/2

8: 5/6/3

9:  6/2/4

Dave - The Track Phantom - cut his teeth as a handicapper at Canterbury and has been having an excellent meet thus far. Dave has agreed to provide this Thursday's sheet for free!

You can see it right here!

Thanks Dave. Please visit his site for more information, and to look at his other tracks.

Jeff Platt of Jcapper software also has agreed to post his core selections, directly from the software.

Here are his power ratings (note the first two races are Quarter Horse races, so it starts in race three)

3-7,9,10
4-5,8,6
5-8,9,7
6-3,1,5
7-2,4,7
8-6,3,5
9-2,5,3

Johnny Love's thoughts on the card from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune are available here.

Other Twitter handles to follow for Canterbury:

Bruce Meyer
Doug McPherson
Wes Reynolds
Andrew Malecha
Zach