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Eye Witness [post 3, Jose Ortiz] has won 3-of-4 starts and enters the 5 1/2-furong Mellon turf sprint for sophomores from a pair of wins

Gaslight Dancer, the winner of the April 16 Palisades Turf Sprint, tops a field of eight in Saturday’s $225,000 William Walker Stakes

Gaslight Dancer swept to the lead at midstretch and held off a late bid from Two of a Kind to win the $250,000 Palisades for 3-year-olds by 1½ lengths Sunday at Keeneland.

Nagirroc will make his stakes debut off two weeks' rest in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Futurity, a six-furlong outer turf sprint for juveniles, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Study Guide: 2021 John Battaglia Memorial Feb 23, 2021 J. Keeler Johnson The $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial at Turfway Park has long served as a local steppingstone toward the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3), Turfways signature race. But Fridays renewal of the John Battaglia is the most significant to date—for the first time, the 1 1/16-mile race serves as a Road to the Kentucky Derby prep event awarding qualification points to the top four finishers on a 10-4-2-1 basis. Gretzky the Great Wins: ...