Colloquial, unraced since winning the Lafayette Stakes last April at Keeneland, is on the comeback trail. The lightly raced 4-year-old son of Vekoma worked a half-mile in 51.67 seconds on Jan. 23 at the Palm Beach Downs training center, his third breeze of the year and second at the track. “He’s doing very well, the time off did him very well,” trainer George Weaver said. Colloquial was scratched from the Grade 1 Woody Stephens last June at Saratoga after developing lameness in his right foreleg. In June 2024, Colloquial was beaten a nose in his debut by Mentee at Aqueduct in a race where the track record of 56.97 for five furlongs was set. Colloquial was off until February 2025 when he won a maiden race by seven lengths and earned a 106 Beyer Speed Figure. Last April, he won the seven-furlong Lafayette Stakes. “Some horses are able to stick with the program – meaning training and racing – more than others, we’ve seen them all the time,” Weaver said. “I guess I’d rather have one with as much talent as him and worry about spacing his races if we need to.” :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  If Weaver doesn’t look for a race beforehand, there are two sprint stakes on April 4 that could make sense for Colloquial – the Grade 3, $350,000 Commonwealth at Keeneland and the Grade 2, $300,000 Carter at Aqueduct. Meanwhile, Weaver said Five G, winner of the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks last March, is under consideration for the Grade 3, $150,000 Royal Delta Stakes at Gulfstream on Feb. 14. Five G was scratched from the Kentucky Oaks when Weaver didn’t like the way she was training in the days leading up to the race. Five G, in her only start since the Gulfstream Oaks, finished ninth in the Grade 1 La Brea, a seven-furlong race at Santa Anita on Dec. 28. “She laid an egg,” Weaver said. “When you’re sprinting, it’s a different type of race. We were first or second choice on the board, she had a résumé that gave her a shot, but it’s different sprinting, She just didn’t fire.” Cy Fair, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner and a finalist for the Eclipse Award in the 2-year-old filly division, is nearing her first workout of the year, Weaver said. Weaver mentioned the Grade 3, $350,000 Limestone Stakes on April 10 at Keeneland as a potential comeback spot for Cy Fair. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.