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The Kentucky Derby field is all but set after weekend horse racing action -- with a couple newcomers crashing the party.

If ever a trainer "owned" a race, it's Bob Baffert and Los Alamitos' Group II Starlet Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, which Baffert won this weekend for the seventh straight time and 10th time overall.

It's that time of year when some late-bloomers start to show promise for the coming year, and two of trainer Bob Baffert's 2-year-olds did just that in weekend racing.

A surprising weekend of horse racing saw upsets in Australia and Hong Kong and the surprising emergence of a potential Kentucky Derby contender.

Angel of Empire in Louisiana and Perriere in Japan won key Kentucky Derby weekend prep races, moving to the top of the list of contenders.

Bob Baffert saddled five winners, Juan Hernandez rode four to victory and Frankie Dettori performed three flying leap dismounts on Opening Day at Santa Anita.

Practical Move defeated three of trainer Bob Baffert's 2-year-olds in the Los Alamito Futurity to move into Kentucky Derby contention.

Late-blooming 2-year-olds Havnameltdown and Justique posted nice victories at Del Mar to highlight weekend horse racing; Golden Sixty won in Hong Kong and Serifos in Japan, setting up a potential showdown next month.

The "Midsummer Derby" at Saratoga pits the first three finishers from the Kentucky Derby against one another again in a highlight of a weekend racing program.

The main Kentucky Derby news item of the weekend was the defection of Morello, who had been No. 15 on the "Road to the Roses" leaderboard. The colt reportedly suffered a foot injury when he blew a shoe.