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Two trainers have two fillies each for the $100,000 Allen “Black Cat” LaCombe Memorial, the featured race Saturday at Fair Grounds, but a third trainer with one key entrant won't be participating at all.
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Sterling Silver, who proved no match for the speedy R Disaster early last fall at Aqueduct in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom, will look to avenge that setback when the pair top a field of nine older fillies and mares in Saturday's $175,000 Hurricane Bertie at Gulfstream Park. The Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie highlights a 12-race program that also features the $125,000 Silks Run going five furlongs on turf.
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The bubble wrap comes off champion Nitrogen on Saturday in the Grade 2, $400,000 Azeri at Oaklawn Park. A strong field of seven has come together, including multiple Grade 1 winner La Cara, Grade 2 winner Quietside, Grade 3 winners Regaled, and Perfect Shot, and multiple stakes winners Standoutsensation and Majestic Oops.
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Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Tampa Bay Derby, Frank E. Kilroe Mile, Hillsborough
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Last Saturday, Iron Honor went from a debut victory to winner of the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes. On the same day, Chief Wallabee came within a neck of doing the same in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth. On Saturday, Canaletto will attempt to jump out of a maiden success and onto the Kentucky Derby trail when he starts in the Grade 3, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby.
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Quint's Brew's training was limited by heavy snowfall and brutal cold, but the Maryland-bred will have the chance to make up for lost time at Laurel Park on Saturday. He will be the likely favorite in the $100,000 Not For Love Stakes, a state-restricted race in which he will be rematched against Blue Kingdom, the General George runner-up.
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Derick Giwner's analysis of the Saturday 3/7 card at The Meadowlands.
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Disco Time will try to bounce back from his first career defeat in the Pegasus World Cup while Disruptor will look to claim his first stakes victory when the two head a field of seven entered in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Saturday 3/7 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Almendares's elusive graded stakes win may happen in Saturday's Grade 2 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf at Santa Anita.
