On Sunday at Santa Anita, the featured race is the $100,000 Adoration Stakes. Restricted to fillies and mares, the Grade 3 event will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of six. 
Of the 20 riders with entries in the 2016 Kentucky Derby, seven have got their horses to the wire first, some several times. 
It took a long time for a favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, but recently it has become the norm. 
A field of seven fillies and mares is set to contest the Grade 1 La Troienne May 6 at Churchill Downs on the Kentucky Oaks undercard. 
On Sunday at Aqueduct, the track will host the $100,000 New York Stallion Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds sired by a stallion that stands in New York, the race will be held at six and a half furlongs on the main track and has drawn a field of six colts and geldings 
With an overflow field of 14 set to contest the $100,000 Giant's Causeway April 16 at Keeneland, the five and a half furlong turf sprint for fillies and mares serves as nice side dish to the main course of graded stakes action on the card. 
On Saturday at Keeneland, the stakes action will continue with the $150,000 Lexington Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the Grade 3 event will be run at a mile and a sixteenth on the main track and has drawn a field of ten. 
Friday is opening day at Keeneland and the featured race is the $100,000 Transylvania Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the Grade 3 is scheduled to be run at one mile on the turf and has drawn a field of nine colts. 
The $250,000 Grade 2 Florida Oaks April 2 at Gulfstream Park features a field of seven three year-old fillies set to go a mile and a sixteenth on the main track in a race with several intriguing possibilities. 
