Tonight is the fourth edition of the Michigan Sire Stakes card to be hosted at Hazel Park since the track took over the state's Thoroughbred meet in 2014. With six races on each Sire Stakes slate, that means we have 18 races worth of applicable data on which to draw to help us handicap tonight's races. Here are some of the highlights.

Sire Stakes winners who made their last start at Hazel Park: 12 (66%)
- Two winners each made their last starts at Thistledown and Indiana Grand. Another two were unraced 2-year-olds making their debuts in the Sire Stakes.

Winning Favorites: 8 (44%)

Leading jockeys by Hazel Park Sire Stakes wins (riders with SS mounts tonight in BOLD):
T.D. Houghton: 4
Ricardo Barrios: 3
Jeffrey Skerrett: 3
Alvaro Hernandez-Lopez: 2
Alfredo Clemente: 2
Ronald Allen Jr.: 1
Angel Stanley: 1
Wayne Barnett: 1
Eric Edwards: 1

Leading trainers by Hazel Park Sire Stakes wins (trainers - or same barn/connections - with SS entries tonight in BOLD):
Robert Gorham: 7
Ronald Allen Sr.: 4
James Jackson: 2
Denis Cluley: 2
Richard Rettele: 1
Shane Spiess: 1
Jason Uelmen: 1

Leading sires by Hazel Park Sire Stakes wins (sires with SS entries tonight in BOLD):
Equality: 8
Gun Power: 3
Elusive Hour: 2
Meadow Prayer: 2
Sky Approval: 2
Syncline: 1

- Two of six juvenile Sire Stakes winners since 2014 came back to win their divisions the next year at age three. (Circle Can Win returns in the 3yo fillies division after winning the juvenile fillies division in 2016)

- Two of six older division winners had won a previous running of the Sire Stakes. (High Legend, Trinity Revealed, and Pink Pajamas are return Sire Stakes winners in the older females division. Gun Powder, Equal Guard, Meadow Wise, and Boo Dutton will look to add another win among the older males.)