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On Saturday at Charles Town, the featured race is the $1.25 million Charles Town Classic. Scheduled to be run at a mile and an eighth, the Grade 2 race has attracted a field of ten colts and geldings with one other, Incremental, listed as an also-eligible.

The Grade 2, $150,000 Lexington Stakes April 16 at Keeneland is a difficult race to sort out on paper with ten three year-old colts set to contest the mile and a sixteenth race on the main track.

On Saturday at Santa Anita, all eyes will be on champion Songbird as she continues her road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1). The Grade 1 event will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth on the main track and has drawn a field of seven.

Coming into the Grade 1 Florida Derby April 2 at Gulfstream Park, there was little doubt that the winner of the highly-anticipated showdown between a pair of unbeaten challengers in Nyquist and Mohaymen would produce the Kentucky Derby favorite. Indeed it did.

On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the track will host the $200,000 Orchid Stakes. Restricted to fillies and mares, the Grade 3 event will be contested at a mile and three-eighths on the turf and has attracted a field of nine.

With just 47 days until the 2016 Kentucky Derby, this year's three year-old crop has been collectively uninspiring - and not just in the mind of a cynical horse player. The numbers and results tell the story.

On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the stakes action will continue with the $75,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the race will be contested at six and a half furlongs and has drawn a field of eight colts and geldings.

Ask even the most diehard horse players to name the top three dirt horses in North America right now, and you'd likely be met with a blank stare - a reaction reinforced by the results of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap March 12.

On Saturday at Oaklawn Park, the featured race is the $200,000 Honey Bee Stakes. Restricted to three-year-old fillies, the Grade 3 event is a prep race for the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth with a field of six.

Friday night stakes action March 4 at Delta Downs features the $100,000 Azalea Stakes for three year-old Louisiana-bred fillies, with eight hopefuls set to duke it out seven and a half furlongs under the lights.