Last year’s 2-year-old stars look to continue their roll in the Oka Sho, the first of the 2022 Japanese Classics.

In the $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) April 9, trainer Tim Yakteen will saddle the short-priced stablemates Adare Manor and Under the Stars in their final quest to earn coveted points for the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1).

LNJ Foxwoods’ homebred aims for an elusive stakes victory against five rivals in the April 9 $200,000 Monrovia Stakes (G2T) at Santa Anita Park.

Connections of Malavath will have some interesting conversations over the coming weeks after last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) runner-up posted a taking success under Christophe Soumillon in the Prix Imprudence (G3).

Trainer Michael Stidham talks about Mystic Guide, who is in training at Keeneland, and his 2022 campaign plans.

Bob Ehalt and Frank Angst handicap the Wood Memorial, Blue Grass, and Santa Anita Derby.

The risks involved in purchasing a seven-figure yearling are fairly obvious. Yet paying $1 million or more at a sale for a young Thoroughbred also has a distinct advantage in creating a higher ceiling for that horse.

Michael Dubb’s Battle Bling and John Grossi’s Racing Corp.’s Maiden Beauty, who finished a respective second and third last out in the Heavenly Prize Invitational March 6, are set to meet once more in the April 10 Top Flight Invitational Stakes.

Connections of Malavath will have some interesting conversations over the coming weeks after last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) runner-up posted a taking success under Christophe Soumillon in the Prix Imprudence (G3).

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Blue Grass S. (G1), Santa Anita Derby (G1), and Wood Memorial (G2).