By Jarrod Horak The Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks is one of the most important final stepping-stone races on the road to the Kentucky Oaks. Run at 1 1/16 miles at Fair Grounds Race Course on Louisiana Derby Day, the race brings together a competitive group of three-year-old fillies chasing valuable Kentucky Oaks qualifying points. […]
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Our Colonial Downs picks March 14 2026 focus on a stakes-heavy Saturday card headlined by the $500,000 Virginia Derby, a 1 1/8-mile dirt test that has quickly become a meaningful spring stop for developing three-year-olds. Colonial’s main track has been fair, but race shape still matters, and this card offers a strong mix of pace-driven […]
By Jarrod Horak The Road to the Kentucky Oaks continues on Sunday at Santa Anita Park with the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes. This $100,000 event for three-year-old fillies covers one mile and one-sixteenth on the main track and serves as an important Kentucky Oaks qualifying race. For this race, I’m using data from the […]