With regard to the question, “What have you done for me lately,” the answer is “nothing” for five of the eight entrants in the featured sixth race Sunday at Churchill Downs. Open to third-level allowance horses or $100,000 claimers and carded for 5 1/2 furlongs on grass, the Sunday feature drew five horses who haven’t started since 2025. A sixth, Alder, last raced Feb. 18 while coming off a two-month break. Only Amoudi Bay and Autodrive have started in the last six weeks, and either of those two could have a say. Trainer Bret Calhoun had Autodrive entered in a turf sprint during the Fair Grounds meeting but scratched the horse when the race stayed on grass. Autodrive had started his career with three dirt victories. Calhoun at the time wasn’t looking to shake things up but said Autodrive would run Sunday even without a rain-off. :: DRF Kentucky Derby Package: Save on Past Performances, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and more. “At that time, I wasn’t really wanting to switch surfaces, but we entered in this same race at Keeneland and it didn’t fill,” Calhoun said. “The more I got to looking into it, I thought it was worth finding out if turf was an option. And there is some turf in his pedigree.” Autodrive is by Mo Town, a Grade 1 winner on turf whose offspring win 14 percent of their grass sprints, a strike rate slightly above average. Autodrive’s dam, the City Zip mare Zippy Speed, won twice during her racing career, once on turf, once on synthetic. Among her three other foals to race, only one, Speed Warning, showed much of anything on the track, and he, like his mother, favored turf and synthetic. Calhoun has trained Autodrive since he made it to the racetrack for owners Kat Kirk and Wayne Sanders. Autodrive breezed twice during July 2024, encountered some “minor things here and there,” Calhoun said, and didn’t debut until last October. He came out running. Autodrive won a Remington Park sprint by more than eight lengths, earning a trip to the bigger leagues at Fair Grounds, where he cleared his first and second allowance conditions before running into two very fast horses, Built and Maximum Bourbon, finishing third in a third-level allowance March 13. Built set a six-furlong track record of 1:07.96. “He just caught a couple bears,” Calhoun said. Amoudi Bay, trained by Lindsay Schultz, has gotten into his own groove. Amoudi Bay won his debut, a Monmouth turf sprint, but failed to progress much in several subsequent starts before Schultz began racing the horse in blinkers. Amoudi Bay immediately cleared his first allowance condition, ran second while stepped up in class at Fair Grounds, and earlier this month at Keeneland, went wire to wire in a second-level turf sprint allowance. Golden Afternoon, one of the layoff horses, holds appeal. Seven of his 10 starts have come around two turns, but Golden Afternoon looks like a sprinter. He debuted winning over 6 1/2 furlongs at Kentucky Downs, and in the same sort of race finished second late last summer in the Grade 1 Franklin-Simpson. Golden Afternoon should race prominently breaking from the rail under Irad Ortiz Jr. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.