Fair Grounds, Turfway team up for cross-track Pick 5

Fair Grounds and Turfway Park will team up Saturday to offer bettors a special $1 Pick 5 featuring an all-stakes lineup anchored by the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby and the $777,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3).

Dubbed the Bayou Bluegrass Pick 5, this cross-track wager will have a $1 minimum and a 15% takeout, with a mandatory payout at the end of the sequence.

The sequence kicks off at 5:04 p.m. EDT at Fair Grounds with the $500,000 New Orleans Classic (G2), featuring a field of 10 headlined by the return of champion Sierra Leone. The second leg shifts to Turfway Park at 5:43 p.m. for the listed, $300,000 Bourbonette Oaks, which drew an oversubscribed field of 3-year-old fillies led by Cincinnati Trophy Stakes winner White Rocks.

The third leg returns to Fair Grounds at 6:08 p.m. for the $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2), where nine 3-year-old fillies will square off, led by undefeated Good Cheer. The Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) follows at 6:25 p.m., boasting another oversubscribed field led by Remsen (G2) winner Poster and John Battaglia Memorial hero California Burrito.

The sequence culminates at 6:42 p.m. at Fair Grounds with the wide-open Louisiana Derby (G2), where 10 3-year-olds are led by Sam Davis Stakes winner John Hancock.