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Triple Crown Weekend Prep Report Card: A Tale Of Two Pedigrees Sponsored by: Two Grade 3 races on each coast, the Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park in South Florida and the Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita in Southern California, were run on Saturday, offering 17 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top four finishers (10-4-2-1). The last time the Holy Bull Stakes winner went on to victory in the G1 Kentucky Derby was in 2006 when Barbaro, making his dirt track debut after winning his first three career starts on turf, scored by three-quarters of a length on a sloppy track...

Medina Spirit Emerges With Narrow Victory In Robert B. Lewis Stakes Sponsored by: Medina Spirit and jockey Abel Cedillo (right) hold off Roman Centurian (left), and Hot Rod Charlie to win the Robert B. Lewis Stakes In a gutty gate to wire performance, Medina Spirit fought off all challengers to take Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes by a neck and thus stamped himself a top tier Derby hopeful for Bob Baffert.  Owned by Zedan Racing Stables, Inc. and ridden by Abel Cedillo, Medina Spirit got 1 1/16 miles in 1:46.26 over a Santa Anita main track listed as “good” ...

With the long-range goal being his third Kentucky Derby victory, trainer Doug O’Neill sends two of his contenders into the Robert B. Lewis Stakes, a Derby points prep Saturday at Santa Anita.

Sponsored by: Simon Callaghan trains Chilean import Brooke for Don Alberto Stable Brooke, a Chilean-bred mare who was a monster in her native country, gong off as the odds-on favorite in six of her seven races while winning five, makes her United States debut in Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday feature, the Grade 3 Megahertz Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. “She's been training very forwardly,” said Simon Callaghan, who conditions the 5-year-old chestnut for the Don Alberto Stable. “I've had her for three or four months. The owners thought she would like the fir...

Mucho Unusual Faces Chilean Import Brooke In Megahertz Stakes Sponsored by: Mucho Unusual and jockey Juan Hernandez winning the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes Owner/breeder George Krikorian's California-bred Mucho Unusual, who has never been off the board in eight starts over the Santa Anita lawn, heads a field of six older fillies and mares in Monday's Grade 3, $100,000 Megahertz Stakes at one mile on turf. Also figuring prominently in the Arcadia, Calif., track's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday feature race is highly regarded Chilean import Brooke, a 5-year-old mare idle since March 14...