The Grade 3 $100,000 Midnight Lute is the first of three graded stakes races Saturday, December 27 at Santa Anita. 
On Saturday at Fair Grounds, the featured race is the 31st edition of the $60,000 Pago Hop Stakes. Scheduled to be run at one mile on the turf, the race has drawn a field of thirteen three-year-old fillies. 
On Saturday, Fair Grounds will begin their card with the 6th running of the $50,000 Sugar Bowl Stakes. The six-furlong race has attracted a field of five two-year-old colts and geldings. 
With a field of twelve in place, the Louisiana Lassie for two year-old fillies might be the best betting race of the December 13 Louisiana Day Champions card at Fair Grounds. 
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, fillies and mares will take to the turf in the $100,000 South Beach Stakes. Scheduled to be run at seven and a half furlongs, the race has attracted a field of thirteen with one additional competitor entered for the main track only. 
On Sunday at Del Mar, the featured race is the 33rd edition of the $300,000 Matriarch. The Grade 1 race will be run at one mile on the turf and has drawn a field of eight fillies and mares. 
The Grade 3 $100,000 Cardinal Handicap features a full and competitive field of 14 fillies and mares set to contest the mile and an eighth event on the grass Saturday, November 22 at Churchill Downs. 
On Saturday, Gulfstream Park West will host the 38th edition of the $100,000 Tropical Park Turf Handicap. Scheduled to be run at a mile and an eighth on the turf, the Grade 3 race has drawn a field of twelve colts and geldings with one additional entered for the main track only. 
Aqueduct’s signature turf race, the Grade 3 $250,000 Red Smith Handicap, features a field of eleven set to go the mile and three eights distance on the turf November 15 in New York.