This Saturday marks the first signature racing day on the 2023 calendar in North America. At Gulfstream Park, eight stakes races will be held, capped off by the seventh annual $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Presented by Baccarat.
After a weekend with only one graded stakes race, the North American horse racing calendar picks back up this upcoming weekend, with Fair Grounds front and center. The New Orleans, La., track holds one of its marquee racecards Saturday, Jan. 21, featuring seven stakes races highlighted by the $200,000, Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes.
This upcoming weekend marks a brief break from high-level horse racing in North America, with only one graded stakes race and no qualifying points preps for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on the schedule.
The upcoming weekend in horse racing is highlighted by two qualifying points preps for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve, one on each coast. The Jerome Stakes Saturday, Jan.
A sensational 2022 for horse racing in North America winds down this weekend, and action picks right up as the calendar turns to 2023 on New Year’s Day with a qualifying points race for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve scheduled at Oaklawn Park. The Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Sunday, Jan. 1 offers Derby points to the top five finishers on a 10-4-3-2-1 scale.
