Sunday’s $1 Coast-to-Coast Pick Five, featuring three races at Gulfstream Park and two from Santa Anita, has a carryover of $119,873.

There is also a carryover of $32,101 in Sunday’s $2 pick six at Santa Anita, which covers the fourth through ninth races on a nine-race program that begins at 1 p.m. Pacific. The bet has fields of 5, 9, 5, 10, 7 and 10.

There is a carryover of $47,002 in the $1 Sunset Six, which covers the final three races at Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Now that The Puma has confirmed his connections’ belief that he is a Kentucky Derby horse, they will spend the coming week or so figuring out the best route to get him to the May 2 Run for the Roses. 

The Puma earned his way into the Kentucky Derby with a three-quarter-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs. With 56 qualifying points - he also got six points for his third in the Sam Davis - The Puma, a maiden entering the Tampa Bay Derby, should comfortably make the Churchill Downs starting gate. 

ARCADIA, Calif. - Potente’s game win in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita has made the undefeated colt a leading contender in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 4, should trainer Bob Baffert select that race.

If Potente starts in the $500,000 Santa Anita Derby at 1 1/8 miles, he may face a familiar lineup of runners. The trainers of Robusta, So Happy and Secured Freedom, who finished second through fourth in the $201,000 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, are also considering the Santa Anita Derby, the leading Kentucky Derby prep race in California.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Agent Kiaran McLaughlin celebrated a “throwback” win of sorts last month when the rider he represents, Luis Saez, guided Bigwrigdude to a maiden victory Feb. 26 at Oaklawn. The horse is trained by Greg Burchell, who also co-bred and co-owns the son of Sticksstatelydude.

“That was fun,” McLaughlin said. “Greg and I go back over 50 years. We were best buddies at 10 years old. That’s how I got in the business. His dad owned horses.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Taken by the Wind, a multiple stakes winner who suffered her first career defeat when eighth in the Grade 3, $750,000 Honeybee earlier this month at Oaklawn, emerged from the race with a case of horse hiccups, according to her trainer, Kenny McPeek.

“She came out of the race with the thumps, which is kind of a rarity,” he said. “That was kind of a surprise to us. That’s an easy one to handle. She settled down pretty quickly after the race.”

McPeek said Taken by the Wind will remain on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Mark Casse has had three notable fillies shine over the Oaklawn meet, and Counting Stars, Search Party and French Friction are all being pointed to upcoming Kentucky Oaks preps.

Counting Stars ran in one earlier this month, when second in the Grade 3, $750,000 Honeybee on March 1 at Oaklawn. She finished three-quarters of a length behind Explora, who is arguably the early favorite for the Kentucky Oaks.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey Luis Saez, who has been wintering at Oaklawn Park, will be based at Gulfstream Park beginning on Thursday, according to his agent, Kiaran McLaughlin.

Saez was based at Oaklawn for the first time this meet and ranked fourth in the current standings through Sunday. He has won 31 races from 167 starts, for mount earnings of $2.3 million.

Saez won local stakes races with Oscar’s Hope and Standoutsensation, and last week won two Ratings Handicaps aboard Grade 1 winner Saudi Crown and multiple stakes winner Asternia.