2022 Kentucky Oaks trail: Guide to Saturday's Santa Ynez Stakes

The Santa Ynez Stakes is for 3-year-old fillies. The winner of the race goes on to the Kentucky Oaks. Bob Baffert's Pioneerof the Nile filly Under the Stars is the favorite. Big Switch and Awake at Midnyte are also in the field. The last winner from this race to go on and win the Oaks was Goodbye Halo in 1988. It's the first of four Oaks preps scheduled this spring in Southern California.

1. Under the Stars (Bob Baffert, Flavien Prat) is the favorite at Santa Ynez Stakes.

Big Shamrock is the favorite at Santa Ynez Stakes.

Big Switch won the Santa Ynez Stakes.

Awake At Midnyte is 3-1 favorite for Saturday's Santa Ynez Stakes.

Miss Mattie B is 5-1 favorite. Mimajoon is expected to go out to an early lead under jockey Kyle Frey.

There are several races taking place on Saturday across the U.S. Post times are EST.

3:50 p.m. – $100,000 Say Florida Sandy Stakes, 4-and-up New York-breds, 7 furlongs, Aqueduct. My Boy Tate (6-5) looks for a seventh career stakes win in the SayFloridaSandy. Gary Sciacca trains Lobsta (8- 5), last-out winner of a New. York Stallion Series Stake event Dec. 5 at Aquaduct, and Alpha Chi Rho ( 6-1) is coming off an allowance score at Laurel Park.

Value Proposition, Largent and Phat Man are racing at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. They are going for $100,000 Tropical Turf Stakes (G3) at 4:37 p.m.

$150,000 Pippin Stakes, 4-and-up fillies and mares, 1 mile, Oaklawn Park, Saturday at 4:46 p.m. Coach (9-5) is favored for trainer Brad Cox in the Pipin. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. will be up on the Commissioner filly (4-year-old), a stakes winner who enters off a local Dec. 17 allowance score. Steve Asmussen trains Josie (5-2), who was fifth at Laurel Park in November.