The $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes January 3 at Gulfstream represents a serious handicapping puzzle for horse players who enjoy a formidable challenge.
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, three-year-old fillies will face off in the 38th running of the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes. The Grade 3 race will be contested at six furlongs and has drawn a field of eight.
On Saturday, the stakes action at Santa Anita will continue with the inaugural running of the $100,000 Midnight Lute Stakes. The Grade 3 race will be contested at six and a half furlongs on the main track and has drawn a field of seven.
The 63rd running of the Grade 1 Malibu December 26 at Santa Anita features a top-class field in the seven furlong event on the main track.
On Saturday, Los Alamitos Race Course will host the 34th edition of the $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity. The Grade 1 race will be run at a mile and a sixteenth and has attracted a field of five promising juveniles.
On Sunday at Aqueduct, the track will host the 77th running of the $100,000 East View Stakes. Restricted to two-year-old fillies bred in New York, the mile and seventy yard contest has drawn a field of six.
The $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Sprint at Fair Grounds is an enticing handicapping puzzle despite the presence of an odds-on morning line favorite.
On Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Course, the track will host the $200,000 Bayakoa Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and a sixteenth, the Grade 2 race has drawn a field of six fillies and mares.
The $75,000 Orleans for three year-old fillies is the eighth and final stakes race on the Delta Downs Jackpot card November 22, as a field of eight is set to contest the seven furlong event.
The Grade 3 Commonwealth Turf features a field of 13 three year-old colts set to go a mile and a sixteenth on the turf Saturday, November 15 at Churchill Downs in the first of two ultra-competitive graded stakes events – both part of the late pick four sequence.
