INDIANA DERBY AND OAKS
Preakness winner Shackleford will cut back to 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s G2 $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park in his final prep for the Breeders’ Cup. He will have to withstand a couple of surging rivals in Caleb’s Posse and Wilburn.
Also on the stakes packed under card Saturday at Hoosier is the G2 $200,000 Indiana Oaks, $100,000 Mari Hulman George, $100,000 Schaefer Memorial Mile, $84,000 Gus Grissom, $84,000 Miss Indiana, $84,000 Richmond, $84,000 Indiana Futurity and two divisions of the Hoosier Breeders’ Sophomore Stakes, one each for the boys and the girls.