The $100,000 Las Flores Stakes March 20 at Santa Anita features a compact field of six set to travel six furlongs on the dirt in a race where little separates the top contenders. 
On Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs, the featured race is the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby. With points on the line towards a spot in the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Grade 2 event will be held at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of ten colts and geldings. 
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the featured race is the $200,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and three-eighths on the turf course, the Grade 2 has drawn a field of seven colts and geldings. 
The featured Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes February 27 at Gulfstream has Kentucky Derby implications as a talented field of six is set to contest the key three year-old prep race at a mile and a sixteenth. 
On Saturday at Fair Grounds, the track will host the $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap. Scheduled to be run at about a mile and an eighth on the turf, the Grade 3 event has drawn a field of nine colts and geldings. 
On Sunday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $100,000 Biogio’s Rose Stakes. Restricted to fillies and mares bred in New York, the race will be held at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of six. 
On paper, the Grade 2, $500,000 San Antonio is a bit of a head-scratcher, with a credible case to be made for each of the eight entrants in the mile and an eighth race for older horses February 6 at Santa Anita. 
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the day of stakes races continues with the $100,000 Kitten’s Joy Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the one mile race is carded on the turf and has drawn a field of seven colts and geldings. 
With an overflow field of 16 signed on for the $60,000 Marie G. Krantz Memorial January 16 at Fair Grounds, the mile and one sixteenth turf race for fillies and mares shapes up to be one of the more competitive betting races on a card that includes four other stakes races. 
