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Saturday is the Grade 3, $100,000 Lazaro Barrera Memorial at Betfair Hollywood Park, which drew a field of only four. Drill and American Act finished noses apart in the Grade 2 San Vicente - now they have to transfer that form to the cushion track.

The big race of the day is the Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park, a nine-furlong event.
If Mark Valeski can run back to his nose loss in the Grade 2 Risen Star he will be tough to beat.

Saturday's 138th Kentucky Derby features a full field of 20. Bodemeister's big 9 1/2 length win in the Arkansas Derby will give him likely favoritism over Union Rags who finished runner up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile last year.

The May 4 $1 million Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs drew 14 horses. One of the favorites is Grace Hall coming off a big 6 length win in the Gulfstream Park Oaks. On Fire Baby and Broadway's Alibi will both get play as well. Both are coming into the Oaks in very good form.

Nereid makes her 4-year-old debut in the $100,000 Wilshire Handicap (Grade 3) on the turf April 29 at Hollywood Park. She was third in the Del Mar Oaks, and won the Grade 1 American Oaks last year, but she comes off a layoff.

The $300,000 Melair Stakes at Hollywood Park on Saturday features a short field of six fillies going 1 1/8 miles, led by Willa B Awesome who is coming off a nose win in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks. Warren's Amber and Starlight Magic come out of the $200,000 Evening Jewel at Santa Anita as the one-two finishers, respectively.

The Grade 2 San Juan Capistrano is a 1 3/4-mile turf race which features Bourbon Bay who has six graded stakes wins including five at Santa Anita Park. He won the San Juan in 2010 and is looking for a repeat and enters this year's San Juan following a win in the Grade 2 San Luis Rey at 1 1/2 miles on March 25.

Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct features a cast of 7 three year olds. The Lumber Guy and Term Loan will battle on the lead. The Lumber Guy has more stakes experience having won a minor stakes at Laurel and most recently a dull fifth in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen will take on 12 rival three-year-olds Saturday in the $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. The nearly all white front running colt will start from post four and will be heavily backed.

Eleven go postward in the 2012 Arkansas Derby, a $1 million prep for the Kentucky Derby. Bodemeister was the runner-up in the Grade 2 San Felipe in his stakes debut March 10, but he drew post 11 for the Arkansas Derby. Bodemeister will be one of the favorites for this race.