Oeuvre will be first choice to win the Third Chance Handicap for the second year in a row Sunday at Hawthorne.

The versatile Mattingly will attempt to become a turf winner Sunday when he starts as one of the chief contenders in the $150,000 Paradise Creek, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds at the Belmont meet at Aqueduct.

The field of nine includes supplemented runner Smokey Smokey, who is coming off a second-place finish in the Animal Kingdom at Turfway Park, and Works for Me, a New York-bred stakes winner who was cross-entered in a race Saturday.

The 3-year-old Sea Streak has already produced an eye-catching stakes win during the early portion of this Monmouth Park racing season. It’s his older brother Speaking’s turn Sunday.

Speaking, a 5-year-old gelding by Mr Speaker out of High Noon Nellie, by Silver Deputy, won the $85,000 John J. Reilly Handicap a year ago returning from a 10-week layoff. This time, he starts as the 124-pound highweight going six furlongs on dirt in his first outing since Aug. 23.

Assiniboia Downs launches its 2024 season on Monday with a 50-day stand that largely mirrors the 2023 meet. Racing will be conducted on Mondays and Tuesdays until June 5, when Wednesdays are added. Wednesdays will then be dropped for the final two weeks of the meet, which concludes Sept. 17. Post time is 7:35 p.m. Central.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – There are nine 3-year-olds Florida-breds entered to go seven furlongs in Sunday’s eighth race at Gulfstream Park, although the main focus will be on only two, Entendre and Celtic Pride. The pair will meet for a second time in the last of three allowance events on a nine-race card that kicks off at 1:10 p.m.

The $100,000 Desert Code Stakes for 3-year-olds turf sprinters at Santa Anita on Sunday is as much a prep to a popular summer race as it is a chance for a $60,000 first-place purse this weekend.

The Desert Code, run at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, could easily produce starters for the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at a mile on turf at Del Mar on the track’s opening day, July 20.

You Go Girl, who is in career-best form at age 7, is the one to beat in Sunday’s six-furlong allowance feature at Emerald Downs.

The mare, owned by Ron and Nina Hagen and trainer Steve Bullock, raced exclusively at Emerald through the end of her 6-year-old season. Earlier this year, she raced four times on the Tapeta surface at Golden Gate Fields, winning twice and earning career-best Beyer Speed Figures in all but her most recent start on April 13.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse sends out the prime King’s Plate prospects My Boy Prince and Midnight Mascot in Sunday’s $100,000 King Corrie, a seven-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds at Woodbine.

My Boy Prince garnered the 2023 Sovereign Award for champion male 2-year-old in a landslide vote, and justifiably so. The son of Cairo Prince won three of six starts, including blowout scores in the Cup and Saucer and Simcoe stakes, to go along with a second in the Grade 1 Summer.

TIMONIUM, Md. – The list of recent graduates of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-year-olds in training sale reads like a who’s who of major events – and one doesn’t have to look far to find a classic winner.

“If you look at the catalog this year, the cover horse is Mage,” Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. said. “If that doesn’t inspire confidence, if that doesn’t make you feel confident to go buy a horse that performs well on the racetrack, I don’t know what would.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Okiro is a bit of a racing oddity. In the morning he can rip off 33-and-change three-furlong works like breaking sticks. But in the afternoon, he’s capable of rationing all that speed and rallying from off the pace like he did to upset the Animal Kingdom Stakes over the synthetic surface at Turfway Park earlier this spring.