Handicapping Canterbury Park for Thursday, June 16 - Pick 5 Debuts This Evening

This marks the second week of Thursday cards at Canterbury Park, and the selections from our group are now available.  Canterbury Park has added a pick 5 to their wagering menu starting tonight.  It is a normal pick 5 wager, not a jackpot, and the takeout is 18%.  The pick 5, which is a 50-cent base wager, starts in race six tonight.

Don't forget, 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 there.  We'd like to thank Lenny Moon for putting the guide together.

Craig Milkowski (Chief Figure Maker for TimeformUS)

Horse in Focus At Canterbury on Thursday June 16th

Race 4:
Mr Leadbox (#5)

Made big move on the turn last out, gaining 5.5 lengths into a slow pace before being cut off in his second career start on turf---romping winner in 1st turf try

Race is projected by TimeformUS to feature a fast pace; only seven are entered, but six have a running style of speed or tracker

Top late speed rating in the race of 73, 10 higher than any other entrant

4/1 on ML

Candice Hare (Canterbury Park national handicapping correspondent)

R1: 2-3-1-4
R2: 3-8-4-7
R3: 2-5-6-3
R4: 2-6-5-4
R5: 12-6-9-5
R6: 2-3-1-4
R7: 5-8-2-7
R8: 8-3-9-1
R9: 7-1-2-4
R10: 1-6-3-2

Late Pick 4: 2,5,8 w 8 w 1,7 w 1

Brian Arrigoni (Paddock analyst for Canterbury Park) 

1: 2/3/4
2: 8/5/6
3: 2/3/6
4: 5/2/3
5: 9/1/5
6: 4/2/6
7: 8/3/7
8: 9/8/1
9: 2/4/1
10: 1/2/4

Early pick 4
3: 1236
4: 12345
5: 9
6: 246

Late pick 4.
7: 13578
8: 16789
9: 124
10: 1

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)

R3:  5-2-6
R4:  6-2-4
R5:  9-6-5
R6:  6-2-5
R7:  5-4-1
R8:  8-9-7
R9:  2-1-7
R10:  1-4-2

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