
Mary Rampellini's top 3-year-olds at Oaklawn Park on March 2
Handicapper Mary Rampellini ranks the top 3-year-old males and fillies pointing to races at Santa Anita.

Handicapper Mary Rampellini ranks the top 3-year-old males and fillies pointing to races at Santa Anita.
Horses to watch from Monticello Raceway.

Six first-time finalists – jockeys Victor Espinoza and Corey Nakatani, trainers King Leatherbury and David Whiteley, and the accomplished racehorses Black Tie Affair and Lava Man – are among the 10 people and horses who have made the ballot for this year’s Hall of Fame class, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame announced on Monday.

Top 3-year-olds at Aqueduct on March 2, 2015.

Champion and Hall of Fame racehorse Tiznow posted a stakes double on Saturday evening, as his aptly named Royal Son captured the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park and Rebranded won the Curribot Handicap at Sunland Park. Both stakes competitors represent a productive cross. According to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results, runners by Tiznow won four races in the month of February. Three are out of mares by the pensioned A.P. Indy, a breed-shaping sire and prominent broodmare sire.
Trip Notes for February 28: Santa Ysabel Stakes by Michael Hammersly.

Receiving calls or emails about judges’ decisions is commonplace in my line of work. Nine times out of ten I watch the race and it is plain to see the judges' point of view and I turn the page. But on Saturday night (2/28) when Kiwi Ideal N was disqualified and placed last, I was certainly left shaking my head.
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Brad Free's top 3-year-olds at Santa Anita on March 2.
A formful Aqueduct inner track meet took a holiday over the last three days and as a result there will be a pick six carryover of $148,147 on Thursday.