Lucille Ball entered her stakes debut Feb. 6 with sky-high expectations, making the crash back down to earth all the more crushing after a 26-length defeat. Trainer Chris Englehart remains undeterred, however, and will bring her right back in the $135,000 Correction Stakes on Sunday at Aqueduct. “It just was a very bad, very disappointing race,” Englehart said of her last start. “Hoping that she’s back to her old self again. She’s training fine, so we’ll see.” In two starts since Jan. 2, Lucille Ball has taken Englehart on a volatile ride. In her first race off a 14-month layoff, the Lord Nelson filly left her trainer and many more stunned when she kicked away on wings, cruising home to a 10 1/4-length victory with a 103 Beyer Speed Figure. Englehart took the logical next step when he entered her in the $135,000 Interborough in late January, but natural forces intervened. Because of snow and extreme wind chill, the race was not run until Feb. 6, and Lucille Ball missed time in the morning because of the frigid conditions. Englehart said the delays probably played a part in her distant finish, in which she failed to make the early lead in a four-horse field that seemed desperate to hand it over. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “Those horses were not too fast for her,” Englehart said. “She got bumped coming out of the gate, and I don’t think she went into that race mentally well. I noticed in the warm-up, she was nervous and throwing her head around a little bit. When I watched her in the warm-up the day she won her first start this year, she was very professional and looked confident. Just didn’t seem the same to me.” Englehart would not put his filly back in stakes company without reason. The trainer said her work since her last start warrants this attempt, in which she will cut back to six furlongs, the shortest sprint distance of her career. As Lucille Ball tries to calm the tides in an immensely turbulent campaign, she will run into one of the most consistent fillies at Aqueduct this winter. In eight career starts for Linda Rice, With the Angels has never finished worse than second, despite a setback that forced her to the shelf from November 2024 to October 2025. Since her return, the New York-bred has run in three allowances, winning two. She also finished second by two lengths in the $150,000 Garland of Roses on Dec. 7, her only defeat in four starts at six furlongs. Her three stakes victories as a juvenile were against statebreds, but she seems to be closing in on another breakthrough in open company. Trainer John Servis said Hold Your Breath, winner of the Garland of Roses, will scratch. The filly also scratched from the $200,000 Barbara Fritchie on Feb. 14 at Laurel Park and has not run since finishing last in the $100,000 What A Summer overnight handicap in January. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.