HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Kathleen O’Connell is a trainer in transition at the moment

O’Connell has spent the majority of her time since she secured a fourth Tampa Bay Downs training title earlier this month going through the tedious process of shipping and bedding down the large contingent she plans to race this summer at Monmouth Park. She also has 22 horses stabled at Gulfstream Park, including Dream Concert who figures to go postward one of the choices in Sunday’s $70,000 overnight handicap for fillies and mares, which will be decided at a mile on the main track.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though she is nominated to Friday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico, the multiple stakes-winning New York-bred 3-year-old filly Bernieandtherose will stay with her own kind in the $200,000 Bouwerie Stakes on June 4 at Saratoga.

Bernieandtherose has won four consecutive New York-bred races, including the East View and Maddie May stakes. She was entered in the Grade 3 Gazelle Stakes on April 5 at Aqueduct but scratched due to a cough.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Grande, who was scratched from the Kentucky Derby by the state regulatory veterinarians due to a cracked heel, was to undergo further tests to determine the extent, if any, of his injury.

Grande was examined by Dr. Larry Bramlage at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital last Tuesday, but those tests came back “inconclusive,” according to trainer Todd Pletcher

“He’s actually going for further tests on Tuesday,” Pletcher said. “So far, we haven’t found anything to hang our hat on.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown will point his bevy of stakes winners from the first weekend in May to races at the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga during the first week of June.

Spirit of St Louis, who won the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic on May 3 at Churchill Downs, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard. Typically run at 1 1/4 miles, the Manhattan will be run at 1 3/16 miles because of the configuration of Saratoga’s turf course.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For all his success on turf, trainer Chad Brown isn’t well known for his prowess with turf sprinters.

“I just don’t get a lot of them,” said Brown, who reminded that he conditioned the multiple graded stakes turf sprinter Silver Timber some dozen years ago.

Brown may have a talented female turf sprinter in Tazara, who makes her U.S. and seasonal debut in a second-level allowance/optional $75,000 claiming race that serves as the feature on Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct.

Facing several of the best older male dirt route horses in the country, Power Squeeze finished a respectable eighth in the Pegasus World Cup. On March 29, in the Ghostzapper Stakes, Power Squeeze finished a good second behind Pegasus winner White Abbario. Suffice it to say, 4-year-old filly Power Squeeze gets a massive dose of class relief Sunday at Monmouth Park in the $100,000 Serena’s Song.

Two days from Guineas Day at Longchamp, France-based fillies dominated antepost betting on the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, the 1000 Guineas, while the market favored shippers from Ireland and England in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the 2000 Guineas.

Both races are one-turn miles, and the Longchamp course Friday was rated good to soft, with warm, dry weather forecast through Sunday.

Beyond Repair starts in Sunday’s $275,800 Robert Adair Kindergarten Futurity at Los Alamitos after two wins since late March that established the gelding as one of the leading juveniles in California.

He is not alone.

Two of the other nine runners in the Kindergarten Futurity at 300 yards, the fillies Beuteeful and Wake Up Lil Suze, also are unbeaten after two starts and are capable of winning the track’s first futurity of the year.

The Sunday card at Churchill Downs closes the week with a 10-race program offering appealing fare, with three allowance events and two maiden special weights.

Landing early, as the fourth race on the program, is a non-winners of two allowance race with a $134,000 purse for fillies and mares going nine furlongs on turf, and the field of nine includes some stakes-quality types. Among those, Ghostly Gal may offer value as she comes back to a favored course, but she will have to contend with the race shape.