After an unscheduled month of not being able to run his horses, trainer Jim Ryerson gets back in action Sunday at Aqueduct with four entrants on the eight-race card. Belmont Park’s barn 15, where Ryerson has 15 horses stabled, was placed under quarantine Feb. 3 when a horse in that barn conditioned by another trainer had to be euthanized due to a case of equine herpesvirus. Horses in that barn could not be entered for 21 days, basically the remainder of February. Ryerson, who shares that barn with Danny Gargan and Gustavo Rodriguez, said none of his horses ever got sick and they were able to train after the general population so they didn’t lose any fitness. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. “It all worked out,” Ryerson said. “Now you need the race to go.” Though he hadn’t won a race in the first month of the meet, Ryerson had four seconds and two thirds from 12 starters in January. Kara Para accounted for one of those seconds, falling a nose short to Bon Adieu in a first-level New York-bred allowance Jan. 7. Sunday, Kara Para is entered in that same condition where she could go off favored around a one-turn mile in race 7. Kara Para has two wins and three seconds from her last five starts, all at a one-turn mile. “She’s doing well, she’s a hard-knocker, been very consistent in the one-turn mile – she seems like she found a home there,” Ryerson said. “Hopefully, she runs back to her [previous] races. I think she will.” Bon Adieu came out of that Jan. 7 race to win at the statebred second-level condition on Feb. 19. Racing Colors, third in that Jan. 7 race, came back to clear her first-level allowance hurdle by 5 3/4 lengths on Feb. 11. Dylan Davis, the meet’s leading rider, has the call on Kara Para. In Sunday’s third, Ryerson sends out Raleigh St. Clair in a maiden $75,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds going seven furlongs. Ryerson claimed the gelding by Street Boss for $20,000 on Feb. 2. While Ryerson indicated he was going to raise him in price for his next start, he wasn’t necessarily looking to run at this level. “I like the horse. I know he’s in some deep water there, but there aren’t many straight [3-year-old races] and they don’t go with big numbers,” he said. “I like him, but maybe more down the road.” In race 5, a maiden $20,000 claimer, Ryerson sends out Pine Alley, a horse who has been soundly beaten at this level two straight times and has to face the class-plummeting Cavendish, from the barn of Brittany Russell. In race 8, a maiden $20,000 claimer for 3-year-old statebred fillies going seven furlongs, Ryerson sends out the first-time starter Dancing Liana. Ryerson said Dancing Liana had to scratch out of a race while warming up a couple of months ago when her stifle locked up on her. The field she is facing Sunday does not appear strong. “She’s an athletic filly,” Ryerson said. “Her stifle locked up on her which is pretty unusual. We’re happy to get her in.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.