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Dandona had just one horse beaten after the opening half-mile of Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Florida Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs. Her jockey, Flavien Prat was okay with that.
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Majestic Oops won the most prestigious race of her career on Saturday when the 6-year-old mare upset champion Nitrogen in the Grade 2, $400,000 Azeri run over a sloppy, sealed track at Oaklawn Park.
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Going to the far turn of Saturday’s Grade 2 Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, Junior Alvarado, aboard Destino d’Oro, had to drop back to last when longshot Aunt Mo started backing up into his filly.
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Despite being four-to-five wide all the way around, The Puma finished fastest of all to win the Tampa Bay Derby by three-quarters of a length and go from maiden to Grade 3 stakes winner and Kentucky Derby qualifier. Further Ado, who raced between horses under Irad Ortiz Jr., got second by a head over race favorite Canaletto.
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Potente was the least experienced runner in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita, but showed the poise of a veteran to win an important prep for the Triple Crown.
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Since the calendar flipped to February, the Brendan Walsh barn has gone crazy in turf stakes, and they won another Saturday at Fair Grounds, where Indigo Woods turned a sharp rally into a half-length victory in the $100,000 Allen “Black Cat” Lacombe Memorial.
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The speedy and remarkably consistent R Disaster avenged her narrow setback in the 2025 Hurricane Bertie and did so in style Saturday at Gulfstream Park, leading at every call en route to a popular and convincing 5 1/2-length victory over Sterling Silver in the Grade 3 fixture for fillies and mares.
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Trainer Tom Morley and Victory Hall showed more than a spark in the $135,000 Maddie May Stakes at Aqueduct on Saturday. In her first race for Morley, the 3-year-old filly ignited to score a massive upset over 1-4 favorite Galinda, avenging an 11 1/4-length defeat to that runner less than a month ago.
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Splendora did not have a speck of dirt on her after a demonstrative front-running victory in the Grade 1 B. Wayne Hughes Beholder Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Sunday, March 8, at Aqueduct.
