Marissa’s Lady looks to add to her strong record at Turfway Park in Saturday night’s $125,000 Wishing Well Stakes for fillies and mares sprinting 6 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta.

Trainer Brad Cox is 3 for 3 in stakes races run at Aqueduct thus far in 2024 and will look to add another when he sends out the uncoupled pair of Bergen and Air Cav as part of a five-horse field entered in Saturday’s $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters.

The Winkfield, at six furlongs, will go as race 3 on a 10-race card that begins at 11:45 a.m. and includes the $150,000 Interborough Stakes, which had been originally scheduled for Jan. 20, a card that was canceled due to weather concerns.

Copper Tax gets class and distance relief in Saturday’s $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes for 3-year-olds racing seven furlongs at Laurel Park.

The Spectacular Bid shares top billing on the 11-race program with the $100,000 Xtra Heat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs. There will be a special early first post time of 11:40 a.m. Eastern.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Brian Lynch was a bit surprised when F Five was buried four deep on the also-eligible list when entries were taken Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 William L. McKnight Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

On Friday, Lynch learned that F Five had drawn into the race and now the red-hot trainer has two solid chances to win McKnight, scheduled for 1 1/2 miles on turf. Lynch also has Anglophile, a troubled fourth in the Tropical Park Derby, in the McKnight.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Though Didia ended her 2023 campaign on a disappointing note, it’s hard to ignore what the Argentine-bred mare accomplished since coming to the United States from Brazil two years ago.

Before she finished 10th of 12 in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita, Didia won 5 of 6 starts at four tracks and finished a close second in the Grade 1 New York at Belmont Park. Overall, Didia is 9 for 14 in her career.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Durante has several variables in his favor heading into the $150,000 Fifth Season on Saturday at Oaklawn Park, but the most important might be his recent works in New York.

Durante was able to maintain a regular workout pattern at his base of Belmont Park while his local rivals were snowed in by a winter storm system that arrived Jan. 14. Oaklawn lost four days of racing, and the track opened for training for the first time since then on Wednesday.

“I do feel that I have a very big advantage,” said David Jacobson, who owns and trains Durante.

Trainer Kenny McPeek will be looking to win the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic for the first time Saturday, when he starts Corningstone and Dear Lady, but back in 2002 he saddled one of the best female horses to ever run at the now 30-year-old Sam Houston Race Park.

Take Charge Lady came to town for the inaugural Great State Challenge and won the $275,000 Distaff. The multiple Grade 1 winner rolled by more than three lengths nine days after running second in the Falls City at Churchill Downs.

There will be 23 stakes worth $10.1 million offered during the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival that will be held at Saratoga on June 6-9, with nine races having to be run at different distances than in previous years due to the difference in circumference of Saratoga compared to Belmont Park.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – While the $3 million Pegasus World Cup will command the bulk of the attention, and rightly so, here Saturday it is the second race on the card, a maiden special weight seven-furlong dash for 3-year-olds, that could have the most ramifications moving forward. One year ago the world got its first look at 2023 Kentucky Derby winner Mage, who launched his career on the Pegasus undercard with a convincing 3 3/4-length maiden victory for trainer Gustavo Delgado.