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.

1^st race [OC 75k/N2X, 1 1/8 mi TURF] – (5) Grayosh (A) got steadied and checked a few times in the Beaugay (G3) which was her first start of the year. (2) Scarlet Poppy came back from a five-month layoff to win the first-level allowance, which was her fourth in a row, for Wesley Ward. Ward is 5 for 5 with horses during the BAQ meeting. (4) Rhiannon makes her first stat of the year when last seen she was winning an N1X allowance at Aqueduct for Chad Brown. (6) Eternal Silence exits a pair of graded stakes races following an allowance victory.

2^nd race [NY, Alw 81000 N1X, 1 1/8 mi] – (2) Pocket Queens was third in a NY-bred allowance after a pair of wins in a maiden claimer and a starter allowance. (5) Grace Reformed had two second-place finishes in allowances in the late winter at the Big A. (4) Photo Finish was a winner against open company in a Parx $15,000 claimer. (3) Ah Ca Ira won a $30,000 maiden claimer at the end of April.

4^th race [OC 75k/N2X, 6F] – (4) Tazara (A) dumped her rider pre-race, went very fast early setting the pace, and faded to second. (6) Risk Threshold returns from an April layoff for Chad Brown following a third-place finish when she was on the lead. (2) Golden Canary made two starts in the Spring after a winter layoff with a fourth and a third for Mark Casse and Irad Ortiz. (5) Simply Stated ran in a stakes on Preakness weekend after a third in a Keeneland allowance.

8^th race [OC 100k/C, 6 ½ F] – (4) Twenty Four Mamba won his last two starts and that came after getting claimed for three races in a row. (6) Baby Yoda comes back from a winter break after racing exclusively in stakes races in New York. The 7-year-old is a nine-time winner. (3) Top Gunner had some traffic problems last month at Churchill Downs after two allowance wins during the winter. (5) Repo Rocks looks for his 10^th career victory as a millionaire. Last time at Parx he had the lead and ended up second in a top-level allowance.

Best bets: Pocket Queens (2^nd); Tazara (4^th). Best value: Grayosh (1^st); Twenty Four Mamba (8^th).