The multiple stakes-winning mares Adore and Shenandoah Queen meet in a Sunday allowance at Oaklawn, where the card also includes a maiden special weight route for 3-year-old fillies. It is sunny and temperatures have risen into the 40s. The track is anticipated as fast for the card that starts at 1:30 p.m. Central.

The program Sunday is the final card of Oaklawn's later-than-usual opening weekend. The track drew an estimated ontrack crowd of 28,000 on Saturday and an estimated 20,000 on Friday, according to numbers from Oaklawn. Handle on Saturday's live card from all sources topped $6 million, according to figures published in the charts by Equibase. Handle on Friday was more than $4.6 million, according to figures from Oaklawn. 

Below please find current entries and a few handicapping notes from Saturday, plus a look at the card Sunday: 

Entries, including scratches as available and comments on each horse entered for Sunday at Oaklawn: https://www.drf.com/race-entries/track/OP/country/USA/date/01-27-2019

Saturday's card saw speed hold well in sprints. Highlights from the card included Amy's Challenge capturing the $100,000 American Beauty by more than five lengths; new face Jermaine Bridgmohan guiding Oh So Tall to an $82.80 upset in the second race for trainer Ingrid Mason; and a starter allowance win from Cool Catomine ($10.20), who a few years back won a leg of the Canadian Triple Crown. 

Also, M G Warrior ($12.60) became the third next-out winner to emerge from an optional $62,500 claiming route Nov. 23 at Churchill Downs. He was making his first start since winning that race in a high-end optional claiming route at Oaklawn, closing for a three-quarter length win. The November key race at Churchill also produced the winnner of the Prairie Bayou at Turfway and a winner of an optional $40,000 claiming race at Fair Grounds. 

For the nine-race card Sunday, there will be a good deal of attention on the seventh race, an optional $75,000 claiming race for fillies and mares at a mile. Shenandoah Queen, a Grade 1-placed runner who has won two editions of the Tranquility Lake at Del Mar, is making her Oaklawn debut. She meets Adore, who compiled a four-win race streak last year and who is 2-for-3 at Oaklawn. The field also includes Rose of Malibu, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Shotgun Gulch. Suspect some of these could advance to next month's Bayakoa at Oaklawn. 

Eskendar looks like a soild choice in the ninth race, a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies at a mile and a sixteenth. She's appealing as one who was stakes-placed in October, running second to multiple stakes winner Taylor's Spirit in the My Trusty Cat - a seven furlong race run around two turns at Delta Downs. She's moving back to two turns here, off a runner-up finish in a maiden allowance sprint at Fair Grounds.  

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