By Matt Shifman and Bob Ehalt

Hot List Key:
 A: A preferred horse to watch                           B: Secondary horse to watch
*C: Went down 2 or more betting notches and finished 1st through 3rd
*D: Went down 2 or more betting notches and finished 4^th or worst
* - 4 or more betting notches if 11-1 or more.

3^rd race [OC 100K/N1X, 7F] – (5) Galinda won her first two starts moving from a maiden to a NY-bred stakes and then set the pace and missed by a neck last month in another state-bred stakes. (3) Hot Gossip won her last two races in a $75,000 maiden claimer, was taken by Linda Rice, and then won a starter allowance by almost 10 lengths. (1) Current Yield won his first start which was at Tampa as the 2-1 favorite and then was fourth in the Busher. (6) Pinky Brier won 4 of her last 6 starts including an optional claiming allowance in March and was taken for $75,000 after an almost six-length victory.

4^th race [OC 50K/N1X, 1 1/8 mi] – (5) Minnesota Munny hit the board in her last seven races where she won three times and got claimed each time. (8) Waveless has speed and was second in his two recent starts at this level. (2) Big Dip was claimed, moved from Kentucky to Aqueduct, and stretched out to the nine-furlong distance to run her best races with a second and a win in top starter allowances. (1) Fast and Frisky was claimed for $45,000 from three NY-bred allowances and was a winner last month.

7^th race [NY, Biogo’s Rose, 1 mi] – (5) Bam’s Bliss Kiss won her last five starts and three of them were against open company. (7) Collect the Data won 5 out of her last 6 races on the front-end and the last two were in open company allowances. (3) Midtown Lights was taken twice for $45,000 recently with a claim back by Saffie Joseph. (2) Sweet Brown Sugar was second twice last year in NY-bred stakes and has two starts this year in top-level allowances against open company following a long layoff.

8^th race [NY, Md 35000, 7F] – (6) El Paco (A) set the pace, battled head to head, rider lost his crop, and finished second behind a return winner. (7) Inonit (C) was bet down from 5-1 to 3-1, lunged at the break, checked at the quarter-pole, and was third beaten by less than a length. (10) Anderman will face NY-breds for the first time after a pair of races at Tampa where two weeks ago he was third at 7-2. (8) Chris’s Song returns from a September layoff and drops in for a tag for the first time while getting blinkers on.

Best bets: Galinda (3^rd); Bam’s Bliss Kiss (7^th). Best Value:  Minnesota Munny (4^th); El Paco (8^th).