The $31.00 was an overlay in the Win pools and an underlay in the Pick 4. Both Bruno de Julio and Frank Lyons selected this horse (Frank singled it on his TVG Pick 4 ticket,) and Bruno only used 2 horses in this race with the winner being one of them. The people using this horse were not betting $2 Pick 4's - and most likely left the win price alone, concentrating on the exotics and allowing the win price to drift back up.

However, the Unusual Heat's have always done well at Del Mar (both turf and dirt) from the first ones that Barry Abrahms started running down here. And once you can identify a sire who likes this turf course, you can take it to the bank!

Frankel ran the Explodent line (Exborne and Expelled) to win everything from stakes (@ $50) to claiming races. Unfortunately I haven't seen too many of those lately, but Unusual Heat is a good replacement!



Delmar Deb