On Saturday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $100,000 New York Stallion Stakes. Restricted to three-year-old fillies sired by New York-based stallions, the race will be contested at six and a half furlongs and has drawn a field of eight.
Perhaps lost in the shuffle of final Kentucky Derby preps April 16 was another superlative performance by superstar filly Tepin who won the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes - her fifth consecutive victory including three grade 1 wins - with laughable ease.
On Sunday at Oaklawn Park, the featured race is the $400,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap. Scheduled to be run at six furlongs on the main track, the Grade 3 event has drawn a field of nine colts and geldings.
The $100,000, Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup Handicap is the featured event at Santa Anita April 3 as a field of seven veteran runners will contest the mile and a half race on turf.
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the graded stakes action will continue with the $200,000 Pan American Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and a half on the turf, the Grade 2 event has drawn a field of eleven colts and geldings.
In a stakes-rich day of racing at the Fair Grounds Saturday, March 26, the Grade 2, $400,000 New Orleans Handicap is one of several outstanding betting races on the Louisiana Derby undercard.
On Saturday at Santa Anita, the featured race is the $500,000 Santa Margarita Stakes. A Grade 1 event for fillies and mares, the race will be contested at a mile and an eighth on the main track and has drawn a field of seven.
On Saturday at Santa Anita, the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) will continue with the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes. A Grade 2 event, the race will be held at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of seven three-year-old colts and geldings.
With just six horses set to contest the Grade 3 Very One March 5 at Gulfstream Park, handicappers will probably be best servedlor to zero in which Chad Brown trained import to bet in the mile and three sixteenths turf race for fillies and mares.
On Saturday at Aqueduct, the stakes action will kick off with the $150,000 Heavenly Prize Invitational Stakes. Carded at a mile and a sixteenth on the main track, the stakes race has attracted a field of seven fillies and mares.
