April 7 (UPI) -- Weekend racing brings the final round of major Kentucky Derby preps with the Santa Anita Derby in California, The Wood Memorial in New York and the Blue Grass at Keeneland in Kentucky -- all with 3-year-olds scrambling for spots in Run for the Roses.
It's also opening weekend of the all-too-brief Keeneland spring meeting, with horses coming from all over the country. Three winners from last year's Breeders' Cup World Championships are slated to run on the Saturday card.
Kentucky Oaks contenders also are in action.
On the international front, there's the first of the Japanese Classics, the finale of the British All-Weather Championships and still more Group 1 racing in Australia. Lucky Sweynesse and Wellington butt heads again in Hong Kong.
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