McLean's "Deep-Dive Handicapping Look-In": Dirt Mile

(Gunite / Coady Photography)

With the defection of the super-talented and ultra-quick Jack Christopher, a couple of things happen. We redo our work. We look at both the Dirt Mile and the Sprint. We recalculate the numbers. And, we reconfigure the standings.

In other words:

Lots of work.

Here is how we go:

	Dirt Mile		8 Furlongs	Dirt	Overall	Last Race
McLean Rank	Horse	ML Odds	Rider	Trainer	Standings	Location	Rating	Comment
2	Cody's Wish (PP7)	5-to-2	Junior Alvarado	Bill Mott	10/6-1-3	1st Forego Stakes	**	True Closer / 4th Best #s	5-5 at Dis / Can't Keep Up with JC
3	Gunite (PP5)	7-to-2	Tyler Gaffalione	Steve Asmussen	12/6-4-1	1st Perryville Stakes	***	Stalker / Top # Here	0-1 at Dis / Should Go in Sprint'
4	Cyberknife (PP9)	9-to-2	Florent Geroux	Brad Cox	11/5-3-1	3rd PA Derby	**	Stalker / Cuts Back / 2nd Highest # Overall	0-0 at Dis / Cut Back Helps Avoid Classic
5	Senor Buscador (PP10)	12-to-1	Francisco Arrieta	Todd Fincher	7/4-0-1	1st Ack Ack Stakes	>	True Closer / Mudder / Hot Now	2-2 at Dis / Good Now / Will Close / Rider
6	Simplification (PP2)	15-to-1	Luis Saez	Antonio Sano	11/3-1-3	4th PA Derby	>>	Stalker / Cuts Back / Distance # Strong	1-1 at Dis / Distance Should Work / 3YO
7	Laurel River (PP6)	9-to-2	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	Bob Baffert	7/4-1-0	1st Pat O'Brien Stakes	*>	Speed / Consistent #s Across / No Standout	2-2 at Dis / 1st Out CA / Not This Kind
8	Law Professor (PP4)	20-to-1	Jose Ortiz	Rob Atras	12/4-2-1	2nd Woodward Stakes	*	Stalker-Closer / Mudder / Distance --	2-4 at Dis / Life Is Good Beat 11/4
9	Pipeline (PP3)	8-to-1	Flavien Prat	Chad Brown	9/2-2-2	3rd Forego Stakes	>>	Speed / KEE # --	1-2 Dis / Beat Cody's Wish 2x in '21
10	Slow Down Andy (PP1)	30-to-1	Mario Gutierrez	Doug O'Neill	9/4-3-1	3rd Awesome Again	>>	Speed / CA-Bred / Overall # 3rd	0-0 Dis / Not This Kind / CA-Bred