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Oaklawn Park is providing a superb 12-race card of racing and wagering on Saturday that can characteristic the $800,000, Grade 3 Southwest Stakes, which is a key step on the observe’s street to the Kentucky Derby Offered by Woodford Reserve. Three different stakes races headline the cardboard, together with the Southwest’s filly counterpart, the $250,000 Martha Washington Stakes on the street to the Longines Kentucky Oaks, which is able to run as Race 9. This week’s winners will concentrate on these two 3-year-old occasions Saturday at Oaklawn. Have weekend and benefit from the races.

Saturday, Feb. 3

Oaklawn Park, Race 9, $250,000 Martha Washington Stakes, publish time 4:40 p.m. ET

9 3-year-old fillies are able to go 1 1/16 miles within the $250,000 Martha Washington Stakes. The 6-5 favourite within the race is the Brad Cox-trained #8 Denim and Pearls, who exits a runner-up end final time within the $200,000 Yr’s Finish Stakes at Oaklawn, the place she misplaced the lead within the late levels going one mile. She’ll face an extended distance on this race, and her odds will probably be low, so whereas she deserves to be in your unique tickets, maybe there are others within the discipline providing higher odds on your win bets. The largest risk might come from Cox’s “different” entrant, #9 In Good Style, who exits a recreation maiden win at Oaklawn final time with a stable pace determine. It’s additionally far too early to surrender on #4 Neom Seashore, who was third final time within the Yr’s Finish Stakes. She did all of the soiled work up on a dwell tempo final outing and can hope for a greater journey within the Marsha Washington with Joel Rosario again for the mount.

The Play: Guess to win on #9 In Good Style (8-1) and play her in three-horse exacta and trifecta packing containers with #4 Neom Seashore (4-1) and #8 Denim and Pearls (6-5).

Oaklawn Park, Race 11, $800,000 Southwest Stakes, publish time 5:50 p.m. ET

The Grade 3 Southwest Stakes was postponed from per week in the past and a full discipline of 3-year-olds anxiously awaits the prospect to take the following step on the Oaklawn street to the Triple Crown that can later proceed within the Insurgent Stakes and Arkansas Derby. The 1 1/Sixteenth-mile Southwest is loaded with up and comers and appears like it will likely be betting race that can launch its high finishers onward. There may be one horse within the discipline who is not going to be Derby certain, and that’s #5 Wynstock from the barn of coach Bob Baffert, who will as an alternative level his 3-year-olds this yr to the Preakness Stakes and past. Baffert has an incredible document down via the years of success when sending his horses to the Oaklawn prep races, and the Southwest seems to be like a chief showcase for this horse that has appeared good successful two straight races together with the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity final time the place he fended off a problem within the stretch to gamely prevail by a half a size. This decide, nevertheless, is especially primarily based on the quick that Baffert ships this horse in from the West Coast, and he doesn’t are likely to waste time when he does so as a result of he at all times means enterprise. The opposite fascinating horse within the discipline is #7 Carbone from coach Steve Asmussen. He has began his profession 2-for-2 and each of these wins have are available wire-to-wire style, together with when stretching out to a mile in his second begin.

The Play:  Guess #5 Wynstock (4-1) to win and field him within the exacta with #7 Carbone (9-2).