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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.