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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-the-money finishes, including his victory in last summer’s Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga. (Image: ...

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 this disc is almost an unofficial tribute to the BBC as a supporter of new music. These are pin-sharp ...

Essential Quality, Life Is Good Top Individual Choices In Third Kentucky Derby Future Wager Sponsored by: Godolphin's Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farm's 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 begins Friday. Pool 3 of the KDFW will open Friday at noon (all times Eastern) and close Sunday at 6...

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 Baffert's first-time starter Bezos, trainer Peter Eurton's 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.  A 3-year-old first time starter by Twirling Candy, Dream Shake got 6 ½ furlongs geared down u...

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.