Jon Forbes
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – Last-out stakes winners Saginaw, Law Enforcement and Mine Over Matter will meet at Belmont Park on Saturday in the $100,000 Affirmed Success, a seven-furlong dash for New York-breds.

The 8-5 morning-line favorite is Saginaw, who has won four straight, including three since being claimed for $30,000 by David Jacobson, who owns the 6-year-old in partnership with Drawing Away Stable.

“My brother, Doug, does most of the claiming and he looked at [Saginaw],”…

Mike Gathagan
Vice President-Communications
Maryland Jockey Club

BALTIMORE, Md. – Headed by the oldest stakes race in Pimlico Race Course’s storied history, the Preakness undercard offers stakes purses worth nearly $1 million.

The $300,000 Dixie Stakes (G2)–first run in 1870 as the Dinner Party Stakes and won by the horse Preakness–tops the list with 11 runners scheduled to go immediately before the Preakness Stakes.

In the forefront with the 7-2 overnight favorite is trainer Graham Motion and former…

David Zenner
Arlington Park

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Ken & Sarah Ramsey’s Lonesome Street, winner of the Grade II Commonwealth at Keeneland in April, headlines a field of 10 entered for Saturday’s Grade III $150,000 Hanshin Cup at Arlington Park.

The Hanshin, a one-mile race over Polytrack, is the first event on Arlington Park’s 26-race $5.8 million stakes schedule and is being run for the 18th time as an exchange race with the Japan Racing Association which annually hosts…

Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – Mike Repole’s Stay Thirsty, who marked himself one of the leading 3-year-olds of 2011 in winning the Grade 2 Jim Dandy and Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, will make his 4-year-old debut Thursday at Belmont Park in the 1 1/16-mile Vanlandingham overnight stakes, scheduled as the day’s third race with an approximate post of 1:54 p.m.

“He’s been training very well and we’ve kind of had a race around…

Bob Mieszerski
Betfair Hollywood Park

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Dynamic Host and Dhaamer, who finished a neck apart when going 1½ miles on the Santa Anita main track March 24, will renew their rivalry at the same distance on turf in the $70,000 Round Table Stakes Sunday at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Back on the stakes calendar after a two-year absence, the Round Table is the seventh of nine races. Post time is 1 p.m.

Trained by Art Sherman for a…

Michael Costanzo
Calder Race Course

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A trio of Jacks or Better Farm, Inc. homebred Stallion Stakes winners, Fort Loudon, Awesome Belle, and Redbud Road, will take to the Calder Casino & Race Course main track on Saturday as a pair of six-furlong sprint stakes for 3-year-olds, the $75,000 In Summation Stakes and the $75,000 French Village Stakes, highlight a rich Saturday of racing in south Florida.

Trained by Stanley Gold, Fort Loudon swept all three…

Michael Costanzo
Calder Race Course

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Rey Wan Racing’s Hello Prince, the runner-up in the Grade 3 Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park March 10, worked a half-mile in :49.40 at Calder Casino & Race Course Sunday morning as he prepares for a start in the $75,000 In Summation Stakes, a six-furlong test for 3-year-olds to be run Saturday May 12.

“That’s the plan,” trainer Daniel Pita said when asked if the In Summation would mark the…

Ashley Herriman
NYRA/Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – A pair of New York Stallion Stakes (NYSS) for 3-year-olds will be co-featured Sunday afternoon at Belmont Park. The NYSS action kicks off in race 6, the $100,000 Park Avenue Division for fillies, and continues in race 9, the $100,000 Times Square Division. Both NYSS races will be contested at 6½ furlongs over the main track.

The 2-1 morning line favorite in the Park Avenue is Saul and Max Kupferberg’s SunnyDesert, a…

Travers Manley
Churchill Downs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Defending Grade I Derby Day winners from 2011, Get Stormy and Sassy Image, plus the 1-2 finishers from last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (GI), Musical Romance and Switch, top the list of marquee names that will be featured Saturday in races leading up to the 138th running of the $2 million guaranteed Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI).

Saturday’s 13-race program begins at 10:30 a.m. (all times Eastern)…

(Edited NYRA report)

ELMONT, N.Y. – After winning Grade 1 turf races in 2011 with European imports Stacelita and Zagora, trainer Chad Brown is primed to make a similar assault on major grass events in America this year after receiving an influx of talented international runners.

“It’s important that different people have seen that we know what to do when you send us the right horses,” said Brown. “We have a program that seems to work, and I…