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The Big Cap card Saturday at Santa Anita is truly big, with the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap heading a program that includes two other Grade 1 events – the Frank E. Kilroe Mile and the Triple Bend, each worth $400,000 – plus a strong renewal of the Grade 2, $400,000 San Felipe Stakes, the local stepping-stone to the Santa Anita Derby.

Saturday is also the biggest day of the year at Tampa Bay Downs, where the Grade 2, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby tops a card that includes four other stakes, two of them graded.

Tampa Bay Derby

Laughingsaintssong  
Trainer: Allen Landry  
Last race: March 4, 7^th
Finish: 2^nd by 4     
Beyer: 84

Each week, TimeformUS Chief Figure Maker Craig Milkowski takes a look back at the weekend’s graded stakes and releases the TimeformUS Speed Figures for these races.

Gulfstream

Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes

1/2    146

3/4    125

Fin    119

Top 3: Gunnevera 119, Practical Joke 113, Three Rules 115     

Note: First two fractions red in TimeformUS - hot pace; third graded stakes win for Gunnevera (others were Saratoga Special, Delta Jackpot) 

SLEEPWALKER
Trainer: Robertino Diodoro
Last race: March 2, 4th
Finish: 2^nd by 2 1/4
Beyer: 79
He set a fast pace over a slow surface and held second in a $16,000 claiming sprint, non-winners of three. Next time, over a “normal” track, he could be gone.

March 4

Aqueduct
Gotham (race 8)

Aqueduct | Race 6 | Post Time 3:20 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs 

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ARCADIA, Calif. – A pick-five carryover of $335,216 could generate a $2 million pool Sunday at Santa Anita, and the question facing pick five bettors is – how much to wager?

Four of the five races (1-5) drew small fields; one big field includes a potential standout. Under normal circumstances, a bettor might survey the sequence and look elsewhere for value.

Race 5:

Wingman (#4)

Mike Hushion gets a 100 TimeformUS Trainer Rating with runners dropping from maiden special weight to maiden claiming company.

Haynesfield is a strong route influence and this horse is a half-brother to Grade 1-winning dirt router Divine Park.

Kendrick Carmouche should send him aggressively in a race lacking much pace.

8-1 on ML

Race 6: GOING STRONG was rated toward the back of the field after failing to break sharply from the gate and could only race on for a distant third in a similar race that came back fast last month; his prior two races were both strong efforts, and there should be more action up front this time with several stretch-out sprinters in the field.