Saturday's America's Day at the Races features two Kentucky Derby preps

by NYRA Press Office

Sunday's ADATR to broadcast live from 3-6:30 p.m. Eastern on FS2
Free Equibase past performances available for all races that are part of broadcast

America's Day at the Races, the acclaimed national racing broadcast, will air on FS2 Saturday from 3:00-7:00 p.m. Eastern, and on MSG and MSG+ from 5:30-7 p.m., showing stakes action from Aqueduct Racetrack and a pair of key Kentucky Derby prep races from Oaklawn Park and Turfway Park.

Free Equibase-provided past performances are available for races that are part of the broadcast and can be accessed at www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

Airing on FS2, and produced by NYRA, America's Day at the Races is presented by America's Best Racing, Runhappy and Claiborne Farm. Saturday's stakes coverage from the Big A will include the $100,000 Correction (Race 8, 5:01 p.m.) for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up, led by recent Broadway winner Kept True for trainer Leah Gyarmati.

The first of two Kentucky Derby preps on the broadcast will be the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel (Race 10, 6:23 p.m.) from Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The 1 1/16-mile test, which offers 50-20-10-5 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the top-four finishers, is headlined by the undefeated Nadal. The Bob Baffert trainee, named for the Spanish tennis star currently ranked No. 2 in men's singles tennis, arrives at the Rebel from a score in the Grade 2 San Vicente at Santa Anita Park. He'll take on a field of eight which includes the Steve Asmussen-trained trio of Basin, Silver Prospector and Excession.

The Grade 3, $250,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (Race 11, 6:42 p.m.), offering 20-8-4-2 Kentucky Derby qualifying points, boasts a competitive field of 12 in the nine-furlong test over the Turfway Park synthetic. Invader, a bay son of War Front trained by Wesley Ward, looms the likely favorite from post 11 following a 6 ¼-length score in the John Battaglia Memorial last out at Turfway.

Additional action on Saturday's stakes-laden broadcast from Oaklawn Park includes the Grade 2, $350,000 Azeri (Race 9, 5:50 p.m.) featuring 2019 Kentucky Oaks-winner Serengeti Empress; and the $350,000 Essex (Race 8, 5:17 p.m.), a 1 1/16-mile route for 4-year-olds and upward featuring millionaires Bravazo and Snapper Sinclair.

Stakes action from Turfway Park will include the $100,000 Rushaway (Race 8, 4:45 p.m.); the $150,000 Kentucky Cup Classic (Race 9, 5:17 p.m.); and the $150,000 Bourbonette Oaks (race 10, 5:55 p.m.), which offers 20-8-4-2 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points to the top-four finishers.

America's Day at the Races will be hosted by Greg Wolf alongside Hall of Fame Jockey Gary Stevens and Michelle Yu, with Nancy Holthus at Oaklawn and Richard Migliore at Aqueduct.

Sunday's broadcast of America's Day at the Races, which will air on FS2 from 3-6:30 p.m., will feature the $100,000 Damon Runyon from the Big A. For more details, please visit www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.