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The Grade 2 Penn Mile headlines Penn National's biggest day of the year when six stakes worth $950,000 will be contested on Friday evening.
A pair of graded stakes races for older horses at Oaklawn Park are the highlight of this weekend's racing action in North America
This time around, it was Lady Scarlet, picked up through the claim box last November for $150,000, who earned her first graded score on Friday at Pimlico Race Course, unleashing a devastating turn of foot to take the Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes.
Undefeated in three career starts. 3-year-old New York-bred Barese returned to the worktab Friday and breezed six furlongs in 1:16.42 on the dirt training track at Belmont Park in preparation for the Wood Memorial Stakes (G2), a 100-40-20-10 qualifier for the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby.