The 20-cent Golden Pick 6 at Golden Gate Fields has a mandatory payout Sunday in a sequence that has five sprints, including two tricky maiden races, and a $32,000 claimer that features a leading contender who has not started in nearly two years.

The bet begins with a carryover of $81,216. The pool of new money could surpass $600,000.

Sunday’s pick six, covering the third through eighth races, has few situations in which bettors, with large or small tickets, can confidently identify a single selection.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bernietakescharge closed the margin between her and My Mane Squeeze from the first time they met in October to last month’s Franklin Square Stakes.

Trainer Dominick Schettino is hoping Bernietakescharge can overtake My Mane Squeeze on Sunday when the two meet for a third time in the $100,000 Maddie May Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies going one mile at Aqueduct.

The final furlong of the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita provided a thrilling duel between Daddysruby and Big Pond, with the pair separated at the finish by a nose.

Nearly eight weeks later, the rematch occurs in an unexpected race – Sunday’s $100,000 Spring Fever Stakes for California-bred fillies and mares at six furlongs at Santa Anita.

Trainer Todd Fincher will seek to win a fourth consecutive stakes race with Candy Aisle in the $250,000 Sunland Park Oaks on Sunday before leaving his New Mexico home for the Middle East to run Senor Buscador in next weekend’s $20 million Saudi Cup.

“He’s taken us everywhere,” Fincher said of Senor Buscador.

On Sunday, the barn’s focus will be at Fincher’s home track, which puts on its Sunland Derby Day card featuring six stakes worth $1 million. Fincher has eight starters spread out among five stakes. First post for the 10-race card is 12:25 p.m. Mountain.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Ain’t Life Grand and Tyler’s Tribe are both set to return from layoffs soon after the Iowa-bred stars turned in notable works Thursday at Oaklawn.

Ain’t Life Grand worked by himself. He went five-eighths from the gate in 1:01.80 as he prepares for his first start since July, when he was a close third in the Grade 3 Cornhusker at Prairie Meadows.

“I thought he worked really good,” trainer Kelly Von Hemel said. “Now, we’ll just start looking for a race. He’s been off a while, so we just as soon have an allowance race before going into deeper water.”

Miss Code West, who was the horse of the meet at Remington Park, has a stakes engagement next month at Sam Houston.

Trainer Kevin Scholl said the three-time stakes winner is targeting the $100,000 Texas Thoroughbred Association Oaks on March 23. The two-turn race for 3-year-old fillies is restricted to graduates of a yearling sale conducted by the TTA.

Miss Code West last raced in January, finishing fourth in the Silverbulletday at Fair Grounds. She had won all four of her starts heading into the stakes.

Neat, who won the Bob Bork Texas Turf Mile last month at Sam Houston, is pointing to an upcoming stakes at his base of Fair Grounds.

Trainer Rob Atras said Neat is on deck for the $75,000 Black Gold for 3-year-olds at an “about” distance of 1 1/16 miles on turf March 2.

Neat was a 5 1/2-length winner of the Texas Turf Mile and earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 84.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Tapatio Leo won his fourth straight race in a Feb. 10 allowance at Oaklawn, and the California-bred likely will see stakes action at the meet, according to trainer Peter Miller.

Tapatio Leo shipped in from Southern California, where he had reeled off three straight allowance wins dating back to September at Del Mar.

“He’s a very fast and really good sprinter, and we’re thinking about possibly the sprint series over at Oaklawn,” Miller said.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Joe Offolter will have a rare Oaklawn Park starter on Sunday, when he saddles Faith Alone in the eighth race.

The first-level allowance for fillies and mares will be run at a mile. The race ends at the sixteenth pole. The feature drew 12.

Offolter has long been based in Oklahoma and is gearing up for the Will Rogers Downs season that starts March 4. It’s been some time since he last ran a horse in Arkansas.

“It was about three or four years ago,” Offolter said. “I don’t like to come over unless I think I’ve got a shot.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Donnie Von Hemel will attempt to win the Grade 3 Razorback Handicap for the fourth time next Saturday at Oaklawn Park when he saddles the well-bred Bolzy.

The $600,000 race is one of four stakes scheduled to be run on a card led by the Grade 2, $1.25 million Rebel.

Bolzy is a son of Gun Runner and the Grade 3-winning millionaire She’s All In. He will be making his stakes debut after a Jan. 28 allowance win at the Razorback’s 1 1/16-mile distance. Bolzy popped a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 96.