Romantic Warrior edges California Spangle as Hong Kong Derby runs to form.

Maggie Wolfendale and Anthony Stabile look back at Saturday’s Grade 3 Whitmore from Oaklawn and the Cicada Stakes at Aqueduct.

People tend to say that Ron Winchell is a very lucky person. Those who know him best will take it a step further.

Along with his childhood best friend Faron McCubbins, Spalding is best known as the owner of the grade 1- winning turf horse Bullards Alley. Spalding purchased the gelding from the Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale in 2014.

Lady Scarlet won her first career stakes victory in $100,000 Cicada Stakes, a six-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies March 19 at Aqueduct Racetrack. She entered off a close victory in an optional claiming sprint on February 26 at Oaklawn Park.

Wesley Ward’s millionaire Bound for Nowhere fired fresh off the bench March 19, winning a $49,000 allowance/optional claiming event over the lawn at Fair Grounds Race Course with the May 6 Turf Sprint (G2T) at Churchill Downs next on his radar.

At the age of 9, Rated R Superstar has a wealth of racetrack experience. In particular, he’s given his connections some very fond memories of the Essex Handicap (G3) at Oaklawn Park.

Lady Scarlet won her first career stakes victory in $100,000 Cicada Stakes, a six-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies March 19 at Aqueduct Racetrack. She entered off a close victory in an optional claiming sprint on February 26 at Oaklawn Park.

Provocateur produced an authoritative victory March 19 in the $100,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park, while Spirit Wind took the $100,000 Any Limit Stakes and Yes I Am Free won the $100,000 Silks Run Stakes.

In a move worthy of the race’s champion namesake, Michael and Patricia Freeny and Jennifer Grayson Taylor’s Bob’s Edge closed from the clouds to score his first graded stakes victory in the $200,000 Whitmore Stakes (G3) March 19 at Oaklawn Park.