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Making the Grade, which will run through the 2021 Triple Crown races, focuses on the winners or top performers of the key races, usually from the previous weekend, who could make an impact on the Triple Crown. We’ll be taking a close look at impressive winners and evaluating their chances to win classic races based upon ability, running style, connections (owner, trainer, jockey), and pedigree.

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 29, 2021

Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from this weekend’s racing, which featured two major Kentucky Derby preps in the $750,000 Curlin Florida Derby Presented by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms at Xalapa at Gulfstream Park and the $250,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks at

Not even a claim of foul could knock M Racing Group's Like the King off the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks throne March 27 at Turfway Park.

For the most part, it had been an unusually unproductive Kentucky Derby prep season for trainer Todd Pletcher, but that all changed in a blink of the eye March 27 in a very familiar setting.

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