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Sponsored by: Super Stock and Ricardo Santana Jr. race past Caddo River and Concert Tour to win the Arkansas Derby Last year's Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland is looking more and more like a key race for the classics this year. The winner was last year's champion juvenile colt, Essential Quality (by Tapit), who is still unbeaten and is the solid favorite for the Kentucky Derby next month. The second-place finisher in the Breeders' Futurity was Keepmeinmind (Laoban), who won the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs in his next start, although he has not found his...

Sponsored by: Soothsay and Flavien Prat (right) hold off Beautiful Gift in the Santa Anita Oaks Flavien Prat, Santa Anita's runaway leading rider, seized the initiative aboard lightly raced Soothsay three furlongs from home and went on to a stellar half-length score over heavily favored Beautiful Gift in Saturday's Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.  Trained by Richard Mandella, Soothsay, in her second career start, got a mile and one sixteenth in 1:44.35. “It (the pace) was pretty slow, so I thought twice and said 'Let's go, we better go now'”...

Beautiful Gift, Moraz Square Off Over Oaks Points At Santa Anita Sponsored by: Beautiful Gift winning the Santa Ysabel under John Velazquez Separated by a head when last they met on March 7, Bob Baffert's Beautiful Gift and Michael McCarthy's Moraz will square off again as they head a field of five sophomore fillies in Saturday's Grade 2, $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks at a mile and one sixteenth. In addition to first prize of $240,000, the Santa Anita Oaks winner will receive 100 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points, with 40, 20 and 10 points to the next three finishers. The Grade 1 Kentucky...

Sponsored by: Fair Maiden winning the La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26 A longshot winner of the opening day Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, trainer Eoin Harty's Fair Maiden will seek to validate that victory as she heads a solid field of 12 older fillies and mares going seven furlongs in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita. Dismissed at 20-1 in the Dec. 26 La Brea, Fair Maiden rallied for an emphatic 2 ¼ length win, as a pair of Bob Baffert fillies, Golden Principal and Merneith, ran second and third. Harty, a former assistant to Baffert, will have to again contend wi...

Sponsored by: Drain the Clock draws clear in the Limehouse Stakes under Edgard Zayas Slam Dunk Racing's Drain the Clock will make his graded-stakes debut in Saturday's $100,000 Claiborne Farm Swale (G3) at Gulfstream Park for connections who are hoping to keep things short and sweet. Although also nominated to the $200,000 Holy Bull (G3), the 1 1/16-mile Curlin Florida Derby prep that will headline a 12-race program with five graded stakes, Drain the Clock will seek to remain undefeated in South Florida in the seven-furlong undercard feature for 3-year-olds. “The Swale is a good o...