Santa Anita’s Super High 5 wager requires bettors to pick the top five finishers in exact order on the last race of the day. If you think it’s easy, invest in the $1 base wager this Friday, Oct. 3, because there is a $104,929 carryover pool that surely will grow exponentially. Post time for the 9th race is 8:01 pm ET.

1st Slot: With plenty of pace up ahead, SHE’S A JOKER and BREVE will carry the hopes of the Super High 5 in the leadoff leg. SHE’S A JOKER is 11/3-1-4 on the Santa Anita lawn and trainer Peter Miller won 102 turf races here in the last four years. BREVE rallied from post 10 two back to get beat 1-1/2 lengths in the same spot, then made some headway into a slower pace last out.

2nd Slot: RUNAMILEINMYSHOES, the 9-to-5 morning line favorite, won 4 of her last 10 starts on the front end at today’s distance against much better company. She is the one to beat, but in hopes of a better payout, relegate her to a solo play in the second leg of the sequence.

3rd Slot: DON’TMESSWITHTESS, 20-1 on the morning line, and ISSA COURT join the Super High 5 in Leg C. DON’TMESSWITHTESS had a troubled trip at Del Mar after three months away. She finished in the money in three consecutive starts at Gulfstream Park that produced a total of six next-out winners. And in her previous grass try, she met one follow-up winners and six runners-up with an average 74 Beyer speed figure. ISSA COURT makes her second start on the lawn in the last 15 months off the claim by John Sadler. She is by Acclamation, whose offspring have won 81 turf route races and earned more than $4 million, including multiple graded stakes winner Acclimate (7-28, $746k on turf) and the Sadler-trained Kings River Knight (10-14, $671k on turf).

4th Slot: LADY MONCLAIRE showed a passing gear when she began her 4-year-old season with a win here under the same conditions. Add her to Leg D.

5th Slot: Nobody hit the Super High 5 on Santa Anita’s last live racing card Sunday, mostly because the third, fourth and fifth-place finishers were dismissed at 47-1, 26-1 and 58-1. Hit the ‘ALL’ button in Leg E, hoping for a similar result.

Suggested $1 Super High 5
1st Slot: 5, 6
2nd Slot: 8
3rd Slot: 1, 3, 5, 6
4th Slot: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
5th Slot: ALL
Cost: $90