Maiden Watch: Week of March 3-9

Midway into the first day of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, Hip 119, a colt by first-crop sire Maxfield, commanded a price of $1 million from Mitsu Nakauchida.

Fans will have another opportunity to wager on their favorites in the fifth pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager and lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, which begins March 14 at noon ET and March 16.

Jockey Angel Castillo, who rides in the mid-Atlantic, rode his 1,000th North American winner March 11 while taking the opening race at Parx Racing aboard Hi Heeled Warrior.

BloodHorse news editor Byron King recaps the March 8 Tampa Bay Derby (G3), reviews a sharp recent workout from Holy Bull Stakes (G3) runner-up Tappan Street, and previews the March 15 Virginia Derby.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.

Nine of the Midwest’s top sprinters, all stakes winners, will line up March 15 to compete for the winner’s share of a $250,000 prize in the Whitmore Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park.

Should Gowells Delight not run in Virginia, McPeek has another contender, Anonima. Her name means anonymous in Spanish, and should she win March 15, she will definitely be known. 

Fort Erie Race Track announced the upcoming 90th running of the Prince of Wales Stakes, second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, will take place Sept. 9.

In a question-and-answer session with ABR’s Tom Pedulla, Nate Nelson, the managing partner of On Your Left Racing, discusses the stable’s cleverly named homebred, Omaha Omaha, who is entered in the March 15 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.