The first of three graded stakes races on the March 19 card at Oaklawn, the Grade 2 $350,000 Azeri Stakes features the return of Untapable who will take on seven rivals in the mile and one sixteenth test. 
On Saturday at Oaklawn Park, the featured race is the $900,000 Rebel Stakes. A prep race for the Arkansas Derby (G1) and ultimately, the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Grade 2 event will be run at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of fourteen three-year-old colts and geldings. 
On Saturday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap. Scheduled to be run at six furlongs, the Grade 3 race has drawn a field of eleven colts and geldings. 
On Sunday at Aqueduct, the featured race is the $100,000 Haynesfield Stakes. Restricted to horses bred in New York, the race will be contested at a mile and a sixteenth and has drawn a field of nine colts and geldings. 
The Grade 3, $125,000 Fair Grounds Handicap is one of four graded stakes races February 20 at Fair Grounds as a field of nine veteran turfers will travel a mile and an eighth in a contentious betting race. 
On Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs, the track will host the $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes. A Grade 3 event for three-year-olds, the mile and a sixteenth contest is a prep race for the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) and offers points towards a spot in the Kentucky Derby (G1). 
On Saturday at Gulfstream Park, the track will host the $100,000 Fred W. Hooper Stakes. The one mile contest has attracted a competitive field of eight colts and geldings. 
A field of seven is set to contest the 40th running of the Grade 2 Forward Gal on a stakes-heavy afternoon of racing January 30. 
On Saturday at Santa Anita, the featured race is the $75,000 Astra Stakes. Restricted to fillies and mares, the race will be contested at a mile and a half on the turf and has drawn a field of nine. 
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