Another lone-wolf winner

Ray Nelson had a $24.60 winner in today's L.A. Newspaper Group consensus, more evidence of the power of the "lone wolf" picks we wrote about this morning.

Ray made Miguel's Mascot his top pick in the fifth race at Hollywood Park. Our other handicappers left Miguel's Mascot out of their top threes. The 2-year-old colt won at 11-1 odds on the drop from stakes to the claiming level.

Ray now has hit with two of his 11 lone-wolf picks at the Hollywood Park meet for a $44.40 total return on $2 win bets and a profit of more than 100 percent.

Terry Turrell also is ahead on this kind of selection -- when he has a horse on top, and none of the other guys in the LANG consensus has the horse 1-2-3.

Ray's other such pick today finished off the board. That was Affirminator in the fourth race.

Of Terry's two, Atka finished third at 13-1 in the fifth and D. Double You was off the board in the seventh.