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. 
On Friday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $125,000 Lost in the Fog Stakes. Restricted to newly-turned three-year-olds, the six furlong contest has drawn a field of seven colts and geldings. 
The $300,000 Grade 1 Malibu represents the final grade 1 race of 2015 for three year-olds, as Breeders’ Cup Sprint champion Run Happy returns to face six rivals December 26 at Santa Anita. 
On Sunday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $100,000 New York Stallion Series Stakes. Restricted to two-year-old fillies bred in New York or sired by New York stallions, the six furlong race has drawn a field of five. 
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the stakes action will continue with the $100,000 El Prado Stakes. Scheduled to be run at seven and a half furlongs on the turf, the stakes race has drawn a field of eleven colts and geldings with one additional entered for the main track only. 
The $110,000 Glass Slipper is another stellar betting race on the December 5 Claiming Crown card at Gulfstream Park, as a field of 13 fillies and mares will contest the one mile event on the main track.