This week at Golden Gate Fields
Kelly With a Twist and Touched by Autism, who were 1-2 after 6 furlongs of the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby before fading to 10th and 11th, respectively, meet again in Saturday’s sixth race.
The 1-mile allowance/optional $40,000 claiming event also drew Malibu Alex, who won his 5½-furlong debut by 3¼ lengths, and Access This, who won a 1-mile maiden race after finishing second in his 5½-furlong debut.
Golden Gate Nugget and Golden Gate Debutante winner Code Warrior worked 5 furlongs in 59.00 Sunday — the fastest of 78 drills at the distance — and will run in the Santa Ysabel Stakes.
Songbird, the Eclipse Award winner as a 2-year-old in 2015, is undefeated in five starts, and her smallest margin of victory is 4½ lengths.
Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Songbird made her 3-year-old debut in the Grade 2 Las Virgenes Stakes and won by 6 lengths after opening up 10 in midstretch of the 1-mile race. ...
Saturday’s Kentucky Derby prep race is the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct, with Withers Stakes winner Sunny Ridge heading a field of eight. ...