Lemon Muffin might have been bred in Kentucky, but she’s an Arkansas girl at heart.

The winner of last season’s Grade 3 Honeybee at Oaklawn Park while still a maiden, Lemon Muffin is back in the entries in Hot Springs, Ark., on Sunday.

Lemon Muffin goes in the eighth race, a first-level allowance for fillies and mares over 1 1/16 miles. She is part of a field of 12.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Speightful Lily has yet to duplicate her mammoth debut performance from 11 months ago, but her front-running victory Thursday in a second-level New York-bred allowance was a good sign to trainer James Bond.

Speightful Lily, who won her debut last January by 14 1/2 lengths while earning a 95 Beyer Speed Figure, won for the third time in five starts. She had not run since finishing sixth as the 4-5 favorite in a similar spot as Thursday in July at Saratoga.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Kant Hurry Love, who came off a 5 1/2-month layoff to win the Garland of Roses Stakes on Dec. 8, will most likely make her next start in the $100,000 What a Summer Stakes on Jan. 18 at Laurel Park, trainer David Duggan said.

Duggan said the lack of a six-furlong opportunity in New York for Kant Hurry Love is what made him look out of town. The next six-furlong stakes for females in New York is the $125,000 Correction on March 2.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York-bred Mama’s Gold won an open-company second-level allowance race by four lengths on Thursday, earning the same 103 Beyer Speed Figure he did winning the $250,000 Empire Classic on Oct. 27. Both races were run at 1 1/8 miles.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A quartet of allowance races for New York-breds highlight Sunday’s 10-race program at Aqueduct with the most interesting perhaps being the one for 2-year-old males going six furlongs where five of the seven entrants are coming off maiden victories.

Following Sunday’s card, Aqueduct is dark until Dec. 27.

Shea Brennan raced near the front in the Golden State Juvenile at Del Mar on Nov. 1 before fading to finish third.

Reflecting on the loss on Friday, trainer Phil D’Amato wondered if he gave jockey Flavien Prat the wrong instructions.

“I had Flavien put him into the race more than I think he probably likes,” D’Amato said. “That was all on me.”

Jockey Antonio Fresu will be given a different directive when he rides Shea Brennan for the first time in Sunday’s $100,000 King Glorious Stakes for 2-year-old statebreds at a mile at Los Alamitos.

Kalea Bay looks somewhat out of place in Sunday’s $75,000 Bay Meadows Juvenile at the Golden State Racing meeting in Pleasanton, Calif.

The colt was a $700,000 yearling purchase, is trained by high-profile Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, and had a dynamic win by 8 1/4 lengths as the 3-10 favorite in a maiden race at Santa Anita in his third career start in September.

Kalea Bay also has a clunker on his race record, a last-place finish of five in the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Nov. 17.

After American Dreamin won the $1.04 million Golden State Million at Los Alamitos on Oct. 27, trainer Monty Arrossa described the final major futurity of the year – Sunday’s $1.8 million Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity – as “our Super Bowl.”

American Dreamin qualified for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity with a trial race win on Nov. 24, and can clinch the title of champion 2-year-old filly of 2024 with a win in Sunday’s 400-yard final.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ron Sadler has had a memorable Woodbine meet, winning several allowances with the speedy Souped Up and sending out the popular 10-year-old Northern Ruby to win her swan song last week before heading off to the breeding shed.

Sadler could win Sunday’s closing-day feature, the $100,000 Steady Growth Stakes, with his aptly named stable star Ron’s Gizmo. Sadler was the original trainer of the 7-year-old son of Giant Gizmo, who has banked nearly $300,000 over the past two years.