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“When he came back from winning the Tenacious he was dragging us around the barn,” trainer Neil Pessin said of Happy American.

Trainer Brad Cox has a barn full of potential Kentucky Derby contenders and will start sorting things out Satuday but says he's not excited -- yet; we preview all the weekend horse racing action right here, right now.

The Roads to the 2023 Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks make a stop in New Orleans this weekend, with a pair of Fair Grounds prep races each offering 20 points to the winner.

“I was pretty happy with his last couple works and just how he looks physically, how he’s moving,” Brad Cox said.

Trainer Robertino Diodoro, Oaklawn’s leading trainer in 2020, is off to a fast start at the 2022-2023 meet, picking up his second stakes win since the Dec. 9 opening and his second straight $200,000 Tinsel Stakes victory on Saturday with John Holleman’s Bal Harbour.

John Holleman’s Bal Harbour rushed to the lead Saturday under jockey Cristian Torres and held it throughout for a win in the $200,000 1 1/8-mile Tinsel Stakes for horses 3 years old and up before an estimated crowd of 8,250 at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort in Hot Springs on Saturday.

HOT SPRINGS -- Most trainers set at least one standard for thoroughbred owners they accept as clients: They must have the ability and willingness to meet the obliged financial requirements of a horse or horses engaged in racing.

Two six-figure stakes and the Oaklawn return of last years Arkansas Derby runner-up highlight the tracks second Saturday of racing.

Tom Durant’s promising Run Classic is the 8-5 program favorite for his scheduled Oaklawn debut in Saturday’s second running of the $200,000 Tinsel Stakes at 1 1/8 miles.

Concert Tour leads the field all the way in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 13, winning by 4 ¼ lengths under Joel Rosario. (Eclipse Sportswire) It’s hard to believe, but even in this COVID-19 winter the calendar keeps turning and the final round of preps for the 2021 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is already upon us with the Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby set for Saturday. The Louisiana Derby is the first prep to offer 100 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the winn...