On Saturday, Laurel Park will host the $100,000 John B. Campbell Handicap. Carded at a mile and an eighth on the main track, the race has drawn a competitive field of eleven colts and geldings.
The $300,000 Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie Handicap features an ultra-competitive field of eleven fillies and mares set to contest the seven furlong event on the main track February 14 at Laurel Park.
The $150,000 Toboggan Handicap is part of a trio of stakes races February 7 at Aqueduct as a field of six older horses is set to contest the one mile event on the main track.
On Saturday at Aqueduct, the featured race will showcase some potential Kentucky Derby hopefuls in the $250,000 Withers Stakes. The Grade 3 race, contested at a mile and a sixteenth, has drawn a field of seven colts and geldings.
The stakes action at Tampa Bay Downs will kick off on Saturday with the 35th running of the $100,000 Suncoast Stakes. Restricted to three-year-old fillies, the mile and forty yard contest will has drawn a full field of ten with one additional listed as also-eligible.
The Grade 3 $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes for three year-old colts is the first race of an all-stakes pick 5 January 24 at Gulfstream Park.
On Saturday at Santa Anita, the focus will be on the California breeding industry and the stakes action kicks off with the $200,000 California Cup Oaks. The one mile turf race has attracted a field of eight three-year-old fillies either bred in California or sired by a California stallion.
On Saturday at Fair Grounds, the track will host the 23rd edition of the $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and seventy yards on the main track, the race has drawn a field of nine three-year-old fillies.
Mid-week stakes action at Oaklawn Park includes the $100,000 Dixie Bell for three year-old fillies as a field of eleven is set to go six furlongs in the first half of the late daily double.
The stakes action on Saturday at Gulfstream Park continues with the 17th edition of the $150,000 Marshua’s River Stakes. The Grade 3 race will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf and has drawn a field of nine fillies and mares.
