As Seen On Tv to get another chance on Derby trail

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – As Seen On Tv, second in a four-way scramble for second – third-place overall – behind Ete Indien in the Fountain of Youth, will run in one of the final Derby preps worth 170 points, trainer Kelly Breen said.

“He got a good learning experience, had a couple things go against him that he might not have liked, being down inside and all,” Breen said. “We’re going to pick out one of the 100-point races and move forward.”

Dirt for Cheermeister?

Cheermeister, who now has won three of the four 3-year-old filly turf stakes at the championship meet after leading throughout Saturday in the Herecomesthebride, is a possibility to switch over to dirt to see whether she might be a Kentucky Oaks candidate, according to trainer Armando De La Cerda.

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“I’d like to try that because she works very fast over the dirt,” De La Cerda said Sunday. “I’d like to see it one time, but I need the owners to say yes.”

Owned by David and Teresa Palmer, Cheermeister has raced exclusively on grass, also previously winning the Wait a While and Sweetest Chant at this meet. If trying the dirt, she could go in the March 28 Gulfstream Oaks, but if she stays on turf, it would be here in the Cutler Bay the same day or in the April 5 Appalachian at Keeneland.

◗ Mario Fuentes rode the first winner of his career when booting home Areyoutalkingtome ($55.40) in the eighth race Sunday. Fuentes, 21, is a native of Chile and the son of Mauricio Fuentes, a former jockey who, coincidentally enough, won his first race as a trainer here in September.

Areyoutalkingtome was the eighth mount for the younger Fuentes, who will ride with a 10-pound apprentice allowance through his fifth winner.

◗ Bold Script looks like the horse to beat in the lone open allowance on a 10-race Thursday card. The race-6 feature is a $45,000, second-level race at a mile on the track, and it’s part of a Rainbow 6 that spans races 5-10 and will have a projected pool guarantee of $500,000. First post is 1 p.m. Eastern.