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2021 Santa Anita Handicap Cheat Sheet

The eyes of the racing world will shift westward this Saturday as Santa Anita Park will host the Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Anita Handicap. This 1 ¼-mile contest was first held in 1935, when its $100,000 purse (equivalent to $1.9 million today) made it the world’s richest race.

2021 Tampa Bay Derby Cheat Sheet

Saturday’s $400,000 Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs is the signature prep for the 2021 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve at the Oldsmar, Fla., track and brings together a competitive field of 3-year-olds vying for a total of 85 qualifying

2021 Derby Trail: Three Heating Up, Three Cooling Down for March 2

This feature provides a capsule look at three horses who are heating up on the Triple Crown trail and three horses whose chances for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve are not quite as strong as they were a week or two ago.

America's Best Horses for March 1

Each week members of the media around the country vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll. The poll will run weekly through June 5. Find out the latest 2021 top 3-year-old rankings below.

AMERICA’S TOP THOROUGHBREDS FOR MARCH 1, 2021

Five Weekend Takeaways: Key Derby Preps and a Superstar’s Return

Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from this weekend’s racing, which featured the $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park and the $750,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Saturday and superstar

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