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At some point this year, Tom Wenzel is likely to break his 67-win tie with Doris Harwood for most all-time stakes victories by a trainer at Emerald Downs. How Candy Caballo fares in Saturday's featured sixth race will likely determine whether he'll be among the Wenzel trainees who have a chance to make history on June 21, when the first four stakes of the meet will be run.
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With five seconds in his last six starts, Horsepower has been a source of both pride and frustration for trainer Joe Orseno. Horsepower will attempt to finally get over the hump and back into the winner's circle for the first time in nearly 11 months when he goes postward among the favorites in Saturday's $100,000 Mr. Steele at Gulfstream Park.
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Spectacular – that aptly describes the performance Burnham Square put forth April 18 in the Elkhorn at Keeneland, a Grade 2 contested, like Saturday's Louisville Stakes at Churchill Downs, over 1 1/2 miles on turf. He won by 9 3/4 lengths and earned a 107 Beyer Speed Figure.
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Two years ago, trainer Todd Fincher won the world's richest horse race when Senor Buscador got up in the final strides to win the $20 million Saudi Cup. It didn't bring a lot of new business Fincher's way.
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After considering the Allaire duPont at Laurel, Ourdaydreaminggirl will ship to Monmouth from trainer Louis Linder's base at Parx Racing for the $100,000 Serena's Song.
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Bring the Smoke will see if he can bring the heat in the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint, which should already be sizzling. A flashy winner when last seen at Laurel Park, Bring the Smoke returns for this six-furlong race which should have plenty of speed.
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Woodbine Oaks contender Dixie Law makes her much-anticipated season debut in Saturday's $100,000 Ruling Angel Stakes, an open seven-furlong event for 3-year-old fillies.
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Queen Maxima, whose affinity for the Santa Anita hillside turf course includes two Grade 3 wins, is the most accomplished entrant in Saturday's Mizdirection and is the 4-5 program favorite. But spring has not gone to plan, and the mare's enterprising campaign renders her vulnerable in her final start before a midseason break.
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Trainer Graham Motion has only been able to run Ribaltagaia twice in the nearly 17 months the mare's been in his barn. Those races, both half-length stakes defeats, came eight months apart. Saturday, when Motion sends out Ribaltagaia in the Grade 3, $150,000 Gallorette Stakes at Laurel Park he will be doing so four weeks after her most recent start.
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Niche will get a class test on Saturday when she moves into the first-level allowance ranks for the second race at Aqueduct. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies is one of four allowance offerings on an 11-race card that starts at 1:10 p.m. Eastern.
