GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Hidden Recipe and Going Away Baby, who in February accounted for the first round of Texas Stallion Stakes races for 3-year-olds, are both back to lead their respective divisions in the series that continues Saturday at Lone Star Park.
There will be two $100,000 Texas Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles, with one race for colts and geldings and the other for fillies. Both are restricted to the offspring of eligible stallions.
Honkytonk Stomp heads a field of 10 set to contest the $15,000 Speed Stakes at Lincoln Race Course on Saturday afternoon.
Honkytonk Stomp, trained by Dudley Graham, should be the speed of the speed in this 4 1/2-furlong dash. After winning an open allowance at Beulah Park in January, Honkytonk Stomp returned to Nebraska with a powerful 4 1/2-length win in the half-mile Grasmick Stakes, where he equaled Leaping Plum’s track record of 44.20 seconds.
School Lass will attempt to win her second consecutive Ohio-bred event since coming north from Oaklawn Park when she heads a field of seven Ohio-bred 3-year-old fillies in the $50,000 Tomboy, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf at River Downs.
The fastest Iowa-bred geldings in training will meet Saturday night in the $70,000 John Wayne Stakes at Prairie Meadows. All 10 entrants appear to have a legitimate chance in the six-furlong sprint.
Collectively, the horses in the John Wayne have won 51 races at Prairie Meadows and show excellent form over this oval.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Haimish Hy won the biggest race of his career in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on turf last November, a performance he failed to duplicate in four starts at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting earlier this year.
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ELMONT, N.Y. – One week after the lightly raced and unheralded Animal Kingdom upset the Kentucky Derby, there is an opportunity for another relatively inexperienced and equally unknown 3-year-old to step up and announce his presence as a player in the division.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario − Wildcat Marie seeks her fourth straight victory Saturday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Hendrie Stakes. A 6 1/2-furlong sprint, the Hendrie has drawn a stellar field that also includes Grade 1 winner Dr. Zic and champion Indian Apple Is.
There are a pair of Challenge Championship berths on the line Saturday night at Sam Houston, with the winners of the Grade 3, $88,740 Texas Juvenile Challenge and $52,920 Texas Derby Challenge trying to secure spots in their divisional finales Oct. 29 at Los Alamitos.
OCEANPORT, N.J. – There are few things that can be said with absolute certainty about the Monmouth Park meet that starts Saturday at 12:50 p.m. Eastern with an 11-race card.
The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has issued a condition book that runs through June 12. The NJSEA, the owner and operator of Monmouth since 1986, is committed to run the track until then.
Beyond that, the picture gets fuzzy with a new operator possibly in place. The NJSEA has entered into negotiations with Morris Bailey, a long-time horse owner, to lease Monmouth.
McM Cajun Accent’s dominant, track-record performance during the trials for the Grade 2, $232,510 Louisiana Laddie Quarter Horse Futurity at Delta Downs makes him the one to beat in Saturday night’s finale. The 330-yard race is one of three Louisiana-bred stakes on the program. Purses for the races total $517,752.