OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There are a couple of significant changes to Sunday’s rescheduled Grade 3, $175,000 Pebbles Stakes at Aqueduct, which was originally carded to be run a week ago. The Pebbles was postponed when racing was canceled due to high winds.

First, the race will now be run at 1 1/16 miles over the outer turf course. Originally, the Pebbles, for 3-year-old fillies, was carded at one mile over the inner turf. Jockeys have expressed concern with the inner course and it will not be used again until next spring.

Brotha Keny and Mister Omaha will both be returning to the straight 3-year-old ranks Tuesday when they invade New Mexico to start as chief contenders in the $300,000 Zia Park Derby.

The 1 1/16-mile race that drew nine anchors the $1.1 million Land of Enchantment card. There are seven Thoroughbred stakes on a 10-race program that includes the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks.

Stilettos, who looked like something special in summer 2024, steps back into stakes company in Monday’s $200,000 Cheryl S. White Memorial for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs at Mahoning Valley. The White Memorial is the richest of six undercard stakes on a loaded card that features the $300,000 Steel Valley Sprint as its main event.

The 84-year-old horseman Gary Cross has a simple training approach with Corrina Corrina, the all-time richest New Mexico-bred Thoroughbred who runs Monday in the $200,000 Peppers Pride at Zia Park.

“She’s her own boss,” he said. “I’m just along for the ride.”

It has been quite the run for Corrina Corrina, a winner of 21 races from 41 starts for earnings of $1.3 million. She has won stakes spanning from one turn to three and defeated males as well as fellow fillies and mares, who she will meet at one mile in the Peppers Pride.

Defiance, a 4-year-old filly who starts in an allowance race on turf Monday at Del Mar, is out of Grade 1 winner Avenge and a sister to stakes-placed Venganza.

Understandably, there are hopes that Defiance can rise to stakes-level competition in coming months.

“I think there is a possibility there,” trainer Richard Mandella said Friday.

A win on Monday would propel that idea. Defiance, who will be ridden by Mirco Demuro, is part of a full field of 10 in the final race on the program. The allowance race drew 13 but will have a safety limit of 10 runners.

Tutta La Vita has had to acclimate several times in her career. Multiple Group 1-placed in her native Australia, she made an atypical move to opposite seasons in the Northern Hemisphere last year.

After starting her United States campaign in Florida, she comes off a layoff to make her first Kentucky start in Sunday’s sixth race at Churchill Downs – and for a new trainer. With trainer Ignacio Correas retiring to his native Argentina, Mike Maker has picked up the mare for Resolute Racing, which purchased her for more than $2 million in U.S. funds at the 2024 Inglis Chairman’s Sale.

He returned from a layoff to win in September at Churchill Downs with a career-best Beyer Speed Figure and now seeks a rich stakes prize in November. He’s not Bentornato, but another Jose D’Angelo trainee, Guns Loaded, who makes his second start off a layoff in the $300,000 Steel Valley Sprint on Monday at Mahoning Valley.

The six-furlong tilt for 3-year-olds highlights seven stakes on a marquee card at the Youngstown, Ohio, track.

On Monday, the 11-year-old gelding Surprsinglyperfect will make the 100th start of his career in a starter allowance at Turf Paradise. He has 28 wins to date, including seven this year, which ranks him among the winningest horses in North America in 2025.

Owner-trainer Justin Evans plans to give him the chance to win a couple more before he retires the horse at year’s end.

Taylor Made Stallions has launched a statebred initiative program that will support and incentivize clients who breed an out-of-state mare to a selection of the farm’s Kentucky stallions, all at crucial points in their careers, and return the mares to their respective states to foal.

Under the program, clients may breed approved mares to four stallions at a set stud fee. That fee will be waived once the resulting foal is reported as being born outside of Kentucky and supporting documentation for the appropriate statebred registration is submitted.

One year after winning her first stakes, Mrs. Astor will try to turn back time Sunday at Del Mar by becoming the first repeat winner of the Grade 3 Red Carpet Stakes.

Ten fillies and mares entered the 1 3/8-mile turf race that was the first of four stakes wins by Mrs. Astor. But the 5-year-old mare’s career is winding down, and neither recent stakes start met her high standards. She won by a nose at odds-on and finished third at even money.

Trainer Jonathan Thomas believes Mrs. Astor benefits from a break since her most recent start three months ago.