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On Sunday at Gulfstream Park, the featured race is the $65,000 Margate Handicap. Restricted to three-year-old fillies, the stakes race has been carded at six and a half furlongs and has drawn a field of eight.

While not a part of the official Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifying points system, the Grade 2 $200,000 San Vicente February 15 at Gulfstream features at least one serious candidate for The Run for the Roses as the undefeated Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion Nyquist makes his 2016 debut in the seven furlong event against five rivals.

The stakes action will continue on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs with the $150,000 Endeavour Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf, the Grade 3 event has drawn a field of seven fillies and mares.

In a rare Tuesday stakes event February 9 at Fair Grounds an overflow field of 15 fillies and mares is signed on to contest the $60,000 Mardi Gras Stakes at five and a half furlongs on the grass.

At Gulfstream Park on Saturday, the stakes action will continue with the $150,000 Suwannee River Stakes. Restricted to fillies and mares, the Grade 3 event will be contested at a mile and an eighth on the turf and has drawn a field of eight.

The $350,000 Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes is the featured event Saturday, January 30 at Gulfstream Park as six Kentucky Derby hopefuls line up to contest a key early prep race.

On Monday at Oaklawn Park, the featured is the $150,000 Southwest Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the one-mile contest is the first prep race towards the Arkansas Derby (G1) and has drawn a field of fourteen colts and geldings.

With five stakes races on tap Saturday, December 16 at Fair Grounds, horseplayers from around the country are sure to be locked in to an appetizing card that begins with the $75,000 Louisiana Stakes in race 7 as a field of seven will contest the mile and one sixteenth event on the main track.

On Saturday at Santa Anita, the featured race is the $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes. Scheduled to be run at a mile and a sixteenth on the main track, the Grade 2 event has drawn a field of eight colts and geldings.

The Grade 2, $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes January 8 at Santa Anita features the return of 2014 dual classic winner and Horse of the Year California Chrome as the champ takes on seven rivals going a mile and one sixteenth on the main track.