PORTLAND, Ore. - Quartern will attempt to stretch her speed to a mile on Saturday when she takes on nine other Oregon-bred 3-year-old fillies, including a trio of stablemates, in the $8,000 Mary Goldblatt Stakes.
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The best-case scenario is they get to keep thinking about the Kentucky Derby, however slim their hopes might be.
The worst case is immediate banishment from the Derby trail. Any horse unable to win the John Battaglia Memorial, which will be run Saturday at Turfway Park for the 24th time, deserves such a fate.
CHICAGO - Wildwood Royal does her day-to-day work off the beaten path, training in downstate Illinois at Fairmount Park, where horses scratch out meager livings at a race meet dominated by low-level claimers. In fact, the mare's owner, the St. Louis businessman William Stiritz, is the primary investor in a group that purchased Fairmount in 2002.
Smooth Bid will be making a dramatic class and distance move on Saturday night when he drops from Grade 3 company and shortens up slightly in distance for the $40,000 Texas Heritage Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park.
The one-mile race for 3-year-olds drew a full field of 12, including stakes winners Leaving on My Mind, My Parade, and Major League, who in his last start was fifth to Greater Good in the $100,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn on Feb. 19.
High Fly will be the one to beat when he breaks from post 7 under jockey Jerry Bailey in Saturday's Grade 2, $300,000 at Gulfstream Park.
Run at 1 1/8 miles for the first time in its 59-year history, the Fountain of Youth will have a field of 11 3-year-olds, including likely second-choice Bandini, who drew post 8 and will be ridden by John Velazquez.
Fountain of Youth
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Afleet Alex will have three for the Kentucky Derby after trainer Tim Ritchey on Thursday entered him in Saturday's $50,000 Mountain Valley Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
A six-furlong race for 3-year-olds, the Mountain Valley drew a field of six, with Afleet Alex set to break from post 5 under Jeremy Rose. Ritchey confirmed that John Velazquez will be aboard Afleet Alex later this month, when he starts in the Grade 3, $250,000 Rebel Stakes on March 19. The $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 16 will be Afleet Alex's final stop before the Kentucky Derby.
ARCADIA, Calif. - A string of longshots on Wednesday has produced a carryover of $111,302 for Thursday's eight-race program at Santa Anita.
The pick six covers the third through eighth races on Thursday.
All of the pick six races have decent-sized fields and should be competitive.
The third race is run over a mile for California-bred maidens. The race has drawn nine entrants, led by Family Guy and Slewsbag, who drew the outside.
ARCADIA, Calif. - For 11 years, March 5 has been a bitter anniversary for trainer David Bernstein.
On that day in 1994, the Bernstein-trained The Wicked North finished first in the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap only to be disqualified and placed fourth.
This year, Bernstein gets a chance to gain a measure of redemption when he runs the longshot Truly a Judge in the Santa Anita Handicap, to be run Saturday, March 5.
Truly a Judge, 7, will be Bernstein's first starter in the Big Cap since The Wicked North.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The Grade 2 Oak Tree Breeders' Cup Mile last October was one of the most exciting races run in California in 2004. Musical Chimes, a filly, finished a nose in front of Buckland Manor, who was a nose in front of Singletary.
Three weeks later, Singletary won the Breeders' Cup Mile at Lone Star Park in an upset, confirming the class of the race.
Those three meet for the first time since the Oak Tree Mile in Saturday's $300,000 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf. And the Kilroe could be more exciting than the Oak Tree Mile.
At the least, it has a deeper field.