Big Commerce will look to keep trainer Jose Francisco D’Angelo’s strong Tampa Bay Downs meet going Wednesday when he starts as part of an eight-horse field in a one-mile maiden special weight race on turf.

On Feb. 14, Big Commerce finished fourth, five lengths behind the Chad Brown-trained debut winner Going Concern, who was a neck better than the Tim Hamm-trained debut runner-up Legitimize. Though the turf was labeled firm for that race, D’Angelo felt it still had some give in it from rains that fell in the period leading up to that card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although the reigning 2-year-old champion Fierceness and Holy Bull winner Hades are expected to be in the starting gate for the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby on March 30, the “wise guy” horse for many players coming into the race is Conquest Warrior. An up-and-coming member of the 3-year-old division, Conquest Warrior is trained by Shug McGaughey, who hopes the City of Light colt can follow in the footsteps of Orb, who parlayed his victory in the 2013 Florida Derby into a Kentucky Derby win five weeks later.

A consortium of three county fair associations will present a plan to the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday to run a 10-week meeting this fall at the Alameda County Fair Grounds in Pleasanton that will replace Golden Gate Fields as a year-round base for Thoroughbred racing in Northern California.

Golden State Racing, a group of Northern California-based horsemen working in conjunction with the California Authority of Racing Fairs, has proposed a 26-day season from Oct. 19 through Dec. 15 racing on a Friday-through-Sunday basis.

In his youth, J P Hellish did his best work on the front end. Late last season and now into the early part of his 8-year-old year, J P Hellish has been running well from just off the pace.

Thursday, J P Hellish should have ample pace in front of him when he seeks his 11th win in his 50th career start in another multi-conditioned allowance scheduled for 7 1/2 furlongs over the Gulfstream Park turf course. This $92,000 race goes as the last of nine on a card that begins at 1:10 p.m.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York-bred Olympic Dreams has acquainted himself quite well in open company over the last four months, knocking out two open-company allowance conditions and running well in a third.

Thursday, Olympic Dreams looks to clear the third-level open condition going his preferred distance of 1 1/8 miles in Aqueduct’s featured event on an eight-race card.

The $1.2 million Tapit colt who led the last phase of the late Robert Lothenbach’s Thoroughbred dispersal at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s March sale of 2-year-olds in training last week has arrived at his new trainer’s farm and already has a name.

Lake Bee brings an ideal stalking style into the $75,000 Welder on Tuesday at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla.

The six-furlong race has drawn its fair share of speed horses, who could make for the kind of quick fractions that would set the race up for an off-the-pace runner like Lake Bee.

The Welder, which is named for the retired millionaire who is in the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park, is for 3-year-olds bred in Oklahoma. Welder was a multiple horse of the meet title winner at his home track of Will Rogers.

Stairstep to Heaven is one of several runners in the $75,000 Blue Ribbon on Monday at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., that have been chasing Miss Code West.

But they will not have to face that dominant Oklahoma-bred filly this time around as she is being pointed to an upcoming stakes at her current base of Sam Houston Race Park.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – R Harper Rose will attempt to solidify her position as leader of the local 3-year-old filly sprint division when she takes on just five rivals, including stablemate Candy Gray, in Sunday’s $100,000 Any Limit Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The six-furlong Any Limit will go as the sixth event on a 10-race card that begins at the new Sunday post time of 1:10 p.m.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Ben Diesel will attempt to become the sixth next-out winner to emerge from a Jan. 6 allowance at Oaklawn Park when he runs in the eighth race on Sunday.

Ben Diesel will face a full, competitive field of 12 in the first-level allowance for 4-year-olds and up at a mile. The race will end at the sixteenth pole.

Ben Diesel was a close fourth in the key race that has since seen five of its starters win back out of it, all at Oaklawn. Midnight Rising, the winner, returned in his next start to capture a second-level allowance with a Beyer Speed Figure of 93.