Even after abandoning plans to ship to Aqueduct, trainer Gary Capuano never thought there was a chance that he was getting horses on the track at Laurel Park on Saturday. He might have better luck on a rescheduled Wednesday card, where he has three contenders in the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes. Last week, Laurel canceled its Friday card after one race and postponed the Saturday and Sunday cards because of extreme cold, the same conditions that led to cancellations the prior weekend. This week, the track will conduct racing from Wednesday through Sunday, beginning with the two cards moved from this past weekend. Capuano worked hard to prepare 3-year-old colts Hollywood Import and Wild Warrior for the $200,000 Withers at Aqueduct, another race being rescheduled this week, but adverse weather and a tight training schedule left him with too much to do. Back home at Laurel Park, the promising pair will instead make their 2026 debuts in the Spectacular Bid. “A little bit of the weather, and with Hollywood Import, I just wasn’t sure about stretching out to a mile and an eighth,” Capuano said. “I didn’t get as much work into him as I needed to get ready for that kind of jump from sprints.” :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Hollywood Import, winner of the $100,000 Heft in December, has never run beyond a mile, but Capuano worked him rigorously in January in the hopes that he could tackle 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct. Though he has set those plans aside, after three one-mile workouts and a four-furlong breeze Jan. 24, the colt should be more than prepared to run seven furlongs over his home track. “For now, we’ll stay home and work from there,” Capuano said. “He’s dead fit for the seven-eighths, and depending on how things shape up, he fits well in there.” Wild Warrior, a 2 3/4-length allowance winner at 1 1/16 miles on Dec. 14, will make his stakes debut in the first sprint of his career. Capuano said he appreciated the colt’s eagerness going longer in his last two starts and hopes that early speed can keep him in the mix while cutting back. Capuano also entered Awesome Andy, who will enter his stakes debut off two straight victories in sprints at Laurel. The Spun to Run colt needed four tries to earn his maiden victory, but in his first start against winners on Jan. 9, jockey Yedsit Hazlewood lost his crop and still managed to coax him home by three-quarters of a length. He is yet another dangerous runner for Capuano in the field of eight 3-year-olds. The Spectacular Bid will feature an eclectic mix of proven stakes runners and fresh faces. Capuano might have the numbers, but Trendsetter offers the most experience for trainer Ben Colebrook. If he takes the trip from his base at Keeneland, he will run on dirt for the first time since August. Outmatched in the $1 million Juvenile Sprint at Kentucky Downs and $300,000 Indian Summer at Keeneland, he returned Jan. 3 and finished second in the $125,000 Turfway Prevue on synthetic. Xtra Heat Stakes Even four days behind schedule, the $100,000 Xtra Heat Stakes remains a perfectly timed opportunity for Unfaithful Rose. Trainer Ethan West said he still plans to bring the 3-year-old filly to Laurel for the six-furlong sprint on Wednesday, a stakes that has attracted five shippers in the field of seven. “It’s tough, and it seems like a lot of these sprinting horses are wanting to stretch out, just trying to see if they can get any kind of [Kentucky] Oaks points,” West said. “The sprints are few and far between, so we’re going to take a little swing at this and see if we can get some black type.” Unfaithful Rose will ship off a hard-fought third in a $55,000 allowance Dec. 4 at Fair Grounds. An 18-1 longshot on a sloppy track that day, she successfully ran back to the 76 Beyer Speed Figure she earned in a 12-length romp against maidens at Mahoning Valley in November. Based at Turfway Park, Unfaithful Rose is one of two fillies who will be taking the trip from Kentucky. Bresha, a debut winner Dec. 26 at Turfway, will step up to stakes company for Wayne Catalano. Trainer Mike Maker will bring the only runner with stakes experience in open company, as Victory Music ran fourth in the $75,000 Sharp Susan at Gulfstream last summer. In December, she finished third behind next-out stakes winner Counting Stars in the Astral Spa at Oaklawn. Trainer Tom Morley could bring the heat from New York, as For the Ladies is expected to be a strong pacesetter breaking from the rail in her stakes debut. The filly kicked clear to a 7 1/4-length maiden victory at Aqueduct in November, but she was pressured and faded badly in an allowance on Jan. 10. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.