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Menu Weekend Stakes Span the Globe From Saudi Arabia to California February 15, 2021 4 min read Looking at this weekend’s notable stakes races takes the eye halfway around the world to the $20 million Saudi Cup. Another look also takes the eye back to three races postponed from last weekend to this weekend – the Southwest Stakes, the Bayakoa Stakes, and the Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park. Mystic Guide comes into this weekend’s Grade 3 Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn Park with six in...

Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Classical CDs: Elephants, pestilence and lockdown fiddling Six more zingers, including strong British contemporary music and the complete Ravel by Graham RicksonSaturday, 13 February 2021     BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder (Avie Records) The musical content is impressive enough, but th...

Essential Quality, Life Is Good Top Individual Choices In Third Kentucky Derby Future Wager Sponsored by: Godolphins Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farms undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good were made the 8-1 individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that be...

Dream Shake Crushes Santa Anita Maiden Field; Highly Touted Bezos Seventh Sponsored by: Dream Shake is geared down nearing the wire by Joel Rosario With most all of the pari-mutuel attention focused on Bob Bafferts first-time starter Bezos, trainer Peter Eurtons longshot Dream Shake stole the show on Big Game Sunday at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., as he powered to the lead turning for home en route to an emphatic 4 ¾-length win that could serve as an onramp to the 2021 Derby Trail...

If races are supposed to grow more important as the Kentucky Derby gets closer, why is Saturday such a glaring exception? Simple, really. Neither the Withers in New York nor the Sam F. Davis in Florida has ever produced a Derby winner.

Triple Crown Weekend Prep Report Card: A Tale Of Two Pedigrees Sponsored by: Two Grade 3 races on each coast, the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park in South Florida and the Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita in Southern California, were run on Saturday, offering 17 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers (10-4-2-1). The last time the Holy Bull Stakes winner went on to victory in the G1 Kentucky Derby was in 2006 when Barbaro, making his dirt track debut after w...

Medina Spirit Emerges With Narrow Victory In Robert B. Lewis Stakes Sponsored by: Medina Spirit and jockey Abel Cedillo (right) hold off Roman Centurian (left), and Hot Rod Charlie to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes In a gutty gate to wire performance, Medina Spirit fought off all challengers to take Saturdays Grade 3, $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes by a neck and thus stamped himself a top tier Derby hopeful for Bob Baffert.  Owned by Zedan Racing Stables, Inc. and ridden by Abel Ced...

With the long-range goal being his third Kentucky Derby victory, trainer Doug O’Neill sends two of his contenders into the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, a Derby points prep Saturday at Santa Anita.

Sponsored by: Simon Callaghan trains Chilean import Brooke for Don Alberto Stable Brooke, a Chilean-bred mare who was a monster in her native country, gong off as the odds-on favorite in six of her seven races while winning five, makes her United States debut in Mondays Martin Luther King Jr. holiday feature, the Grade 3 Megahertz Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. “Shes been training very forwardly,” said Simon Callaghan, who conditions the 5-year-old chestnut for the Don A...

Mucho Unusual Faces Chilean Import Brooke In Megahertz Stakes Sponsored by: Mucho Unusual and jockey Juan Hernandez winning the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes Owner/breeder George Krikorians California-bred Mucho Unusual, who has never been off the board in eight starts over the Santa Anita lawn, heads a field of six older fillies and mares in Mondays Grade 3, $100,000 Megahertz Stakes at one mile on turf. Also figuring prominently in the Arcadia, Calif., tracks Martin Luther King Jr. hol...