Not all of the top outfits have left Florida just yet.

The most interesting event on Wednesday’s nine-race Tampa Bay Downs card is the finale, where many high-profile connections are represented in a maiden turf race for 3-year-old fillies.

A lineup of Thoroughbreds competing this week in Kentucky represents stallions like classic sire Malibu Moon and stalwarts Flatter and Prized. They’ve been bred by prominent domestic and international entities like Betz Thoroughbreds, Machmer Hall, Nawara Stud, Poindexter Thoroughbreds, Sycamore Hall, and Patrice Wolfson.

But these Thoroughbreds won’t be squaring off in a graded stakes race at Keeneland or Churchill Downs. Rather, they’re set to compete in the Kentucky five-star and four-star three-day events from Thursday-Sunday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Turf racing returns to the New York circuit on Wednesday at Aqueduct and not a minute too soon. Field size on dirt in April has fallen to 6.42 horses per race, down from 7.18 during March.

Dreamlike, a graded stakes-placed runner for trainer Todd Pletcher, will make his 5-year-old debut in a $56,000 allowance at Gulfstream Park on Sunday. He was gelded in January and is returning from a layoff of nearly 10 months to make his first career start on a synthetic track.

INDIANTOWN, Fla. – Trainer Brad Cox’s decision to keep Florida Derby winner Tappan Street at his newly adopted winter home of Payson Park an extra couple of weeks to prepare for his upcoming start in the Kentucky Derby continues to pay dividends.

On Friday, Tappan Street turned in a second strong work over the Payson Park strip since his 1 1/4-length victory over Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 29 at Gulfstream Park, breezing five furlongs in 1:02.20 in company with stablemate Rapture.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Reconstruction of California’s turf categories – colts and geldings, fillies and mares – commences this weekend and next in Grade 3 turf miles at Santa Anita.

The American Stakes on Sunday marks the comeback of stakes winners Endlessly and King of Gosford, while the well-regarded European filly The White Lady also returns. She makes her U.S. debut in an entry-level allowance and could emerge as a key player in a female turf division that includes undefeated Raw Ability, who is targeting the Grade 3 Royal Heroine on April 26.