Venue thoughts for January 5

[JolyB]

I've been looking at some of the options for the venue for our contest next Saturday and am in a bit of a quandary. None of the choices jump out at me as absolutely perfect picks, and I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

I've considered, without any strong convictions:
(1) Returning to Santa Anita, which will feature the G2 San Gabriel and the G3 Sham, which will award KY Derby qualifying points.

(2) Heading to Gulfstream, whose card includes 5 small stakes races (2 of which are restricted stakes). A drawback to GP is the strong likelihood that we will be there on at least Jan 26 for the Pegasus World Cup and Feb 2 for the Holy Bull and perhaps for the Sunshine Millions card earlier in the month.

(3) Somewhere else entirely just because it's there. By that, I mean some venue that might not have important races, but would provide an interesting and enjoyable change of pace before the Derby trail starts to really heat up.

If any of you have some preferences, I'd love to hear them before making the final selection.