Proven at the distance, John Sadler’s long-fused Heywoods Beach, a 5-year-old horse by Eclipse Champion Sprinter Speightstown, looms the horse to beat among a field of eight three-year-olds and up in Sunday’s marathon mile and one half, Grade 3, $100,000 Tokyo City Cup at Santa Anita.
Named after Bay Area media icon Sam Spear, Monday’s inaugural running of the Sam Spear Memorial at Golden Gate Fields was won by 4-year-old gelding I’mgonnabesomebody
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A winner of a Grade 3 stakes on Jan. 2, Bob Baffert s lightly raced Life Is Good heads an outstanding field of seven sophomores going a mile and one sixteenth in Saturday s Grade 2, $300,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita.
A key prep for the Grade 1 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby on April 3, the San Felipe, which was won last year by Baffert s eventual Kentucky Derby and Breeders Cup Classic winner Authentic, will be contested for the 83rd time, with Baffert bidding to win it for a record eighth time on Saturday.
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Following a weekend off, the
2021 Kentucky Derby Points Series resumed with a trio of races worth a total of 119 points to the top four finishers. Two of the three races paid out enough points for the winner to stamp an entry ticket to the Kentucky Derby, but the winner of the other one will have to keep pushing forward to earn his.
Let s jump in and start analyzing the leaderboard by looking at who s in, out and who s on the 2021 Kentucky Derby points bubble after Saturday s Southwest Stakes and Fountain of Youth, along with the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes from Friday.