By Jarrod Horak The Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita Park returns to the racing calendar on Monday after originally being scheduled for June 11. A power outage interrupted racing midway through the card last week, forcing officials to cancel the remaining races, including the Affirmed Stakes. With Santa Anita adding an extra day of racing, […]
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By Jarrod Horak On Sunday, March 1, I’m breaking down two major Kentucky prep races at Oaklawn Park: the Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes (Race 9), a Kentucky Oaks 2026 points race, and the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes (Race 11), a Kentucky Derby 2026 points race. For this analysis, I’m using the Complete Digest, which provides […]
By Jarrod Horak The Grade 3, $1 million Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn on Feb. 6 is for 3-year-olds traveling 1 1/16 miles on the main track and the scheduled post time is 5:40 PM ET, and this is a Kentucky Derby 2026 points race. Southwest Stakes field (race 11): 1 – Reclamation (30-1) 2 – […]
By Jarrod Horak. The Los Alamitos Futurity is a Kentucky Derby 2026 points race and it runs as Race 8 at Los Alamitos Race Course on Saturday, December 13, 2025. It’s a Grade 2 for two-year-olds, $200,000 purse, one mile and a sixteenth on the main track, with a scheduled 7:00 p.m. Eastern post time. The […]
By Jarrod Horak In this horse racing handicapping video, I analyze the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Futurity at Del Mar using Today’s Racing Digest data. Del Mar Futurity 2025 field: 1- Brigante (15-1), 2 – Brant (1-1), 3 – Balboa (6-1), 4 – Civil Liberty (9-2), 5 – Desert Gate (4-1), 6 – Litmus […]