Friday’s segment of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival features three terrific turf stakes - the New York (G1), Belmont Gold Cup (G2), and Intercontinental (G3).

In the trio of graded turf stakes on Santa Anita Derby Day, Going Global made it look easy in her Royal Heroine (G2) comeback, Kentucky invader Brooke Marie plundered the Monrovia (G2), and Cairo Memories wired the Providencia (G3).

Turf distaffers are in focus on the Santa Anita Derby undercard with a trio of graded stakes - the Royal Heroine, Monrovia, and Providencia

Jockey Joel Rosario completed his record-setting Kentucky Downs meet with a Sunday stakes double aboard Tobys Heart and Koala Princess, and Brendan Walsh became co-leading trainer when Family Way took the $498,500 Ladies Marathon.

Kentucky Downs brings the curtain down on Sunday with a trio of stakes for distaffers.

Speed reigned supreme in two of the three turf stakes at Churchill Downs on Saturday, making Set Piece’s last-to-first victory in the $300,000 Wise Dan S. (G2) all the more commendable.

The rising turf star Hit the Road will do just that when he makes his first start outside his Southern California base in Friday's $300,000 Maker's Mark Mile (G1) at Keeneland.