Three years after Mage registered an upset in the 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1), his connections will get a chance to win the roses for a second time with The Puma.

Saturday’s Festival Day at Tampa Bay Downs included four stakes in addition to the Tampa Bay Derby (G3).

Knightsbridge outclassed four rivals in the $200,000 Gulfstream Park Mile (G3) by 11 1/4 lengths under Junior Alvarado.

Strategic Risk took over entering the stretch and rolled to a 4 1/2-length decision in Saturday’s $250,000 Smarty Jones, a Road to the Kentucky qualifier at Oaklawn Park.

No one would have faulted Locked for losing Saturday's $261,000 Woodward (G2), not after the field was reduced to three.

Charlene’s Dream ended up as the controlling speed in Saturday’s Beverly D. (G2), and Giocoso rode the rail to a new career high in the Secretariat (G2).

After coming within an eyelash of Cogburn’s record time last time out, Bring Theband Home flirted with a stakes record when dominating Sunday’s Troy (G2).

Speed is traditionally dangerous over a wet track, and so it proved when Macho Music led throughout in the $539,500 Pat Day Mile (G2) at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

Unbeaten 1-2 favorite Almostgone Rocket was long gone in the stretch of Thursday’s Jersey Girl S., one of a trio of dirt stakes on opening day of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga.

Drum Roll Please asserted his superiority in the final furlong of the $145,500 Jerome S. at Aqueduct on Saturday, winning the one-mile Road to the Kentucky Derby series test by 3 3/4 lengths under Javier Castellano.

Saturday’s Pegasus Preview Day at Gulfstream Park included preps for turf performers with designs on the Jan. 27 blockbuster card.