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It’s official. The girl will be taking on the boys for the first time in the $1.25 million Arkansas Derby (G1) at 1 1/8 miles April 2 at Oaklawn.

"She's an awesome horse," Murrill said of Elle Z. "She gives 110% every time she gets on that track. She's a horse to remember."

M Bar O’s Elle Z is in the best form of her career. Perry Harrison’s Change of Control is a two-time graded stakes winner.

The top three finishers from the Colonel Bradley enter Saturday’s Grade 3 The Fair Grounds Stakes in form, but the waters are much deeper this time around.

Sponsored by: Maxfield wins the Alysheba Stakes under Jose Ortiz Godolphin's multiple graded stakes-winning homebred Maxfield leads a field of nine older horses that were entered in Saturday afternoon's featured 40th running of the $600,000 Stephen Foster (Grade 2) – one of seven stakes events on the 12-race closing day program at Churchill Downs. Saturday's first race is 12:45 p.m. (all times Eastern) and the Stephen Foster will go as Race 11 with a post time of 5:59 p.m. The supporting stakes on the card are the $300,000 Fleur de Lis (G2), $300,000 Wise Dan (G2), $150,000 Bashfo...