Kentucky Oaks 2023 trail: Busanda odds, preview, more

Occult is the morning-line favorite for the $100,000 Busanda Stakes at Aqueduct. Chad Brown trains Occult, who fetched $625,00 in the auction ring as a yearling. Affirmative Lady is a 9-5 favorite on the same card for Graham Motion. Gambling Girl is 3-1 for Todd Pletcher. The Busandas is second of Aquaduct's four points-paying Kentucky Oaks preps.

The favorite Occult is going to go out to an uncontested early lead under Davis. Aniston is 5-1 favorite.

There are a number of stakes races taking place across the U.S. on Saturday. All post times are EST.

Champions Dream starts his sophomore season in the Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. Mark Casse trains and Samy Camacho rides the Justify colt. Ronald Spatz trains Loco Abarrio. Handsome Playboy won a local allowance race Dec. 21.

Kate’s Kingdom has won back-to-back stakes races. Maybe Later is making her stakes bow. Gulfstream stakes winner Grand Ave Girl finished fifth in the one-mile distance Dec. 28 at Turfway Park.

$125,000 Gasparilla Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, seven furlongs, Tampa Bay Downs. Dorth Vader (3-2) carries back-to-back stakes wins in this prep for Tampa’s only points-paying race on the Kentucky Oaks trail, the $150,00 Suncoast Stake on Feb. 11. Marcos Meneses gets the call for trainer Michael Yates on Girvin (4-1), victor of the local Sandpiper Stages on Dec. 3. Casse trains Personal Pursuit ( 4-3), a $500, 000 auction purchase who finished fourth at Gulfstream in the Wait a While St.

Ginobili (7-5) goes east to Arkansas for trainer Peter Miller as morning-line favorite for the Fifth Season Stakes. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. will be up on the 6-year-old Munnings gelding. Soy Tapatio (9-2) enters off a Zia Park Championship Stake score Nov. 22 for Robertino Diodoro.