Grade 1 winner Discreet Lover, making his first start since November, is the morning-line favorite in Saturday's $100,000 John B. Campbell Stakes at Laurel Park.
Trainer Linda Rice has won three of the last five runnings of the Broadway Stakes and, on paper, brings a pretty strong hand into Saturday's 40th renewal of the $100,000 sprint for New York-bred females at Aqueduct.
It could be an exacta for the ladies Saturday at Oaklawn Park. Adventurous Lady and Lady T N T figure prominently in the $100,000 Dixie Belle, a six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies.
Although the Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star at Fair Grounds is the headline race across the country on Saturday, history suggests it is the 3-year-old fillies exiting the race that precedes it, the Rachel Alexandra, who are most likely to vault into ...
An eight-time stakes winner in her 23-race career, Belvoir Bay heads the field for Saturday's $70,000 Wishing Well Stakes for fillies and mares at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course.
The $100,000 Sweet Life Stakes for 3-year-old fillies last Sunday will be recognized as a Grade 3 race even though the surface was switched from turf to dirt because of wet conditions, the American Graded Stakes Committee announced on Thursday.
Storylines converge Saturday at Santa Anita, where an exceptional field of fillies and mares race seven furlongs in an appealing edition of the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes.