Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will attempt to win the Sunland Park Oaks for the ninth time in his career Sunday when he sends out probable favorite Maysam in the $250,000 qualifier for the Kentucky Oaks.
The first five finishers in the one-mile race will earn points for the May classic on a scale of 20-10-6-4-2.
The Sunland Oaks is one of five stakes on a 10-race card anchored by the $400,000 Sunland Derby. A sixth stakes, the $100,000 Bill Thomas Memorial, did not fill.
Horses from Arkansas, Arizona, California, and Kentucky will meet in New Mexico on Sunday to chase after Kentucky Derby points in the $400,000 Sunland Park Derby, which is led by Grade 3 winner Getaway Car and the unbeaten stakes winner Take Charge Tom.
The 1 1/16-mile race anchors a 10-race program that begins at 12:25 p.m. Mountain. There are five stakes on the card worth a cumulative $930,000.
The first five finishers in the Sunland Derby earn points on a scale of 20-10-6-4-2.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Scipio is the class of the $100,000 Baffle Stakes, and Freedom’s Not Free is the speed. Who will win the turf sprint for 3-year-olds Sunday at Santa Anita? Pick heads or tails.
Although seven are entered in the Baffle, stakes-placed Scipio and highly rated maiden winner Freedom’s Not Free figure as the choices. The betting market usually gets it right in the Baffle, as favorites have won the past four years and six of the last nine.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Staton Flurry jetted to Pennsylvania to watch a recent private purchase win a few days ago and is now back home at Oaklawn Park hoping for more of the same on Sunday with Woodcourt.
“We’ll see if we can keep the momentum going,” said Flurry.
Woodcourt is part of a field of 10 for a second-level allowance for 4-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles. He is making his fourth start for Flurry after he bought a half-interest in the horse in November from owner and trainer Cipriano Contreras.
The $135,750 Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship on Sunday is missing one of its most prominent qualifiers from the Jan. 26 time trials.
Jess Good Wine, third in the $600,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos in December and the winner of four stakes in 2024, was declared ineligible after testing positive for the banned medication carmoterol following a win in the All American Gold Cup at The Downs at Albuquerque last September.
The three founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed have essentially been winnowed down to a single dominant branch worldwide, but a recent study of genetic diversity of North American Thoroughbreds revealed “only modest increases” in inbreeding that “isn’t inherently problematic.”
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The Daytona 500 — a.k.a. The Great American Race — is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. ET, Sunday on FOX.
Quint’s Brew had his coming-out party when he rolled to a six-length victory at odds of 9-1 in the Jennings Stakes last month at Laurel Park. The odds figure to be much shorter Saturday when Quint’s Brew seeks to validate that performance in the $200,000 General George Stakes at Laurel.
The seven-furlong General George, which lost its Grade 3 status starting this year, drew only six runners and is one of four stakes on a nine-race card that begins at 12:10 p.m.
