DISTAFF HANDICAP

Aqueduct, ninth race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Seven furlongs, fillies and mares. Post: 4:50 p.m.

LOWDOWN: In the Grade 3 Sabin at Gulfstream Park last out, Matchless Orinda set the pace to deep stretch, then tired to hold second. The cutback in distance should make all the difference today.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

SANTA BARBARA HANDICAP

Santa Anita, fourth race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-a-quarter, turf, fillies and mares. Post: 5:03 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Tuscan Evening led throughout stretching out to a mile-and-an-eighth in the Santa Ana Handicap over this course and once again looms the main speed in a short field.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

LEXINGTON

Keeneland, ninth race. Grade 2. Purse: $300,000. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:15 p.m.

LOWDOWN: The son of Giant’s Causeway, Connemara, has run all five of his races over synthetic tracks, so Keeneland’s Polytrack is no obstacle, and trainer Todd Pletcher has been lights-out in Derby preps all spring.

TV: TVG, OTB Ch 71

LAST WEEK: At Keeneland, Interactif (3-1) finished fourth in the Blue Grass. At Oaklawn, Dublin (5-2) was third in the Arkansas Derby paying $3.60 to show. In the La Puente at Santa Anita, Fantastic Pick (3-1) was sixth.