Grade 1 winner She Feels Pretty has returned to trainer Cherie DeVaux’s barn at Keeneland, following her dominant season-opening victory in the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes on Friday at Pimlico. After a summer stint in New York, her major late-season goal will be right back here at Keeneland.

“The big one would be the Queen Elizabeth in the fall,” DeVaux said. “A filly like this, it’s hard not to use that as the target instead of a Breeders’ Cup, so right now, that’s probably our long-term goal for this year.”

Messier, winner of the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes on May 3 at Aqueduct, recently underwent surgery to remove a knee chip, according to his connections, who hope to get him back later this year.

“We hope to get him back the same away,” trainer Rick Dutrow said. “It’s his second knee operation. He’s had two throat operations and he’s had a colic operation. I don’t know how many horses have five operations and keep going.

Corporate Power and Gould’s Gold, separated by a nose at the wire of Saturday’s Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico, will likely be graded stakes-bound at some point this summer, but neither are targeting the Belmont Stakes on June 8.

Shug McGaughey, trainer of Corporate Power, said his horse “still has a lot to learn,” but he was naturally pleased with the outcome Saturday.

“He’s coming along, he showed he’s got some ability,” McGaughey said. “He needs to race and learn. He’s spotty in his races. I think he wants to go a little farther than that on his best race, too.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Gun Song, the 3 1/4-length winner of last Friday’s Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, is back in New York, where she will train toward a potential start in the Grade 1, $500,000 Acorn Stakes at Saratoga on June 7, trainer Mark Hennig said.

“We’ll nominate to the Acorn and see how she’s doing,” Hennig said Monday at his Belmont barn.

Oeuvre will be first choice to win the Third Chance Handicap for the second year in a row Sunday at Hawthorne.

The versatile Mattingly will attempt to become a turf winner Sunday when he starts as one of the chief contenders in the $150,000 Paradise Creek, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds at the Belmont meet at Aqueduct.

The field of nine includes supplemented runner Smokey Smokey, who is coming off a second-place finish in the Animal Kingdom at Turfway Park, and Works for Me, a New York-bred stakes winner who was cross-entered in a race Saturday.

The 3-year-old Sea Streak has already produced an eye-catching stakes win during the early portion of this Monmouth Park racing season. It’s his older brother Speaking’s turn Sunday.

Speaking, a 5-year-old gelding by Mr Speaker out of High Noon Nellie, by Silver Deputy, won the $85,000 John J. Reilly Handicap a year ago returning from a 10-week layoff. This time, he starts as the 124-pound highweight going six furlongs on dirt in his first outing since Aug. 23.

Assiniboia Downs launches its 2024 season on Monday with a 50-day stand that largely mirrors the 2023 meet. Racing will be conducted on Mondays and Tuesdays until June 5, when Wednesdays are added. Wednesdays will then be dropped for the final two weeks of the meet, which concludes Sept. 17. Post time is 7:35 p.m. Central.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – There are nine 3-year-olds Florida-breds entered to go seven furlongs in Sunday’s eighth race at Gulfstream Park, although the main focus will be on only two, Entendre and Celtic Pride. The pair will meet for a second time in the last of three allowance events on a nine-race card that kicks off at 1:10 p.m.

The $100,000 Desert Code Stakes for 3-year-olds turf sprinters at Santa Anita on Sunday is as much a prep to a popular summer race as it is a chance for a $60,000 first-place purse this weekend.

The Desert Code, run at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, could easily produce starters for the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at a mile on turf at Del Mar on the track’s opening day, July 20.