ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 2 Santa Anita Oaks on Saturday did not produce any expected starters for the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 3.

Race winner Nothing Like You, who paid $16.40, and runner-up Kinza, the 1-2 favorite, are trained by Bob Baffert, who is currently banned from having runners at Churchill Downs by that track’s management.

Corposo, who finished third by eight lengths in her stakes debut, earned 25 qualifying points, and ranks 26th on the list of eligible fillies for the Kentucky Oaks. Only 14 will start in the Kentucky Oaks.

Alotaluck will be a short-priced favorite to accomplish what his dam did – win a derby – when he starts in Sunday’s $125,000 Mine That Bird Derby on the closing day card at Sunland Park in New Mexico.

Alotaluck is out of the mare Colinda Dawn, who defeated males by nine lengths in the 2015 running of the Colorado Derby at Arapahoe Park.

It was held at the same 1 1/16-mile distance of the Mine That Bird Derby, which is one of five stakes on Sunday’s card. The richest of the offerings is the $200,000 Sunland Park Handicap, with the stakes worth a total of $650,000.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – For the second year in a row, trainer Martin Drexler proved a force to reckon with shipping down from Woodbine for the winter. His 20 wins put him sixth in the standings during the recently concluded Gulfstream Park Championship meet. And he’s not done yet.

Opening day will be a dark day at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Monday.

Horseshoe Indianapolis, which is located in Shelbyville, Ind., scheduled its opening day on a Monday this year because the track lies directly in the path of Monday’s total solar eclipse, an event that will not reoccur in North America until 2044. And they’re making the most of it.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Mike Maker and jockey Ramon Vazquez will attempt to win their third stakes together this meet at Oaklawn Park when they team with Tut’s Revenge in the new $175,000 Eclipse on Sunday.

The overnight stakes is a six-furlong offering for 4-year-olds and up. The field of 10 includes the Steve Asmussen-trained trio of Gun Pilot, Chasing Time, and Morello.

Heart Headed, bought for $135,000 at auction last November, may turn out to be a steal for Hronis Racing and trainer John Sadler.

After a win in a starter allowance on dirt at Santa Anita in his California debut in January, Heart Headed finished a game second by a head in the Baffle Stakes on the hillside turf course in February in his first start on the surface.

The narrow loss leaves Heart Headed as the favorite in Sunday’s $100,000 John Shear Stakes for 3-year-olds at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside course.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Accretive and Maker’s Candy look to rebound from recent disappointing efforts when they are two of six horses entered to run a mile in a third-level allowance that serves as the feature on Sunday’s eight-race Aqueduct card.

Accretive, trained by Chad Brown, won two allowance races last summer before finishing second to Cody’s Wish in the Grade 2 Vosburgh and third to Everso Mischievous in the Grade 2 Forty Niner, both at Aqueduct.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Inside and outside, trainer Brad Cox has the Beaumont Stakes covered.

The Grade 2, $400,000 Beaumont, a dirt race restricted to 3-year-old fillies and contested over Keeneland’s Beard Course at seven furlongs and 184 feet, drew just six entrants. The Cox-trained Denim and Pearls breaks from post 1 under Flavien Prat, while Cox’s second entrant, Youalmosthadme, drew post 6, Tyler Gaffalione named to ride.

A sharp win by Johannes in his 2024 debut in Thursday’s Grade 3 American Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita will lead to the 4-year-old colt’s Grade 1 debut in the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile on May 27.

Johannes chased a fast pace in the $102,500 American Stakes, closing from third in a field of 10 to win his first start in 11 months. Johannes was timed in a quick 1:32.08.

On Friday morning, trainer Tim Yakteen said the colt emerged from the race in ideal condition.