Juan Arriagada has been the leading owner in wins at the last three Tampa Bay Downs meets. This year, he would like to add leading trainer to his résumé as well.

Arriagada won two races on Sunday’s card at Tampa – the 63rd day of the 90-day season – pulling him to within three wins, 30 to 27, of Juan Avila. Arriagada is the leading owner with 18 wins, five more than his nearest competitor. Last year, his 42 training victories were second only to Kathleen O’Connell.

The new team behind the familiar Pin Oak Stud has had its share of heartbreak in the last few years. But hope springs eternal in Thoroughbred racing, especially in the spring.

After one Pin Oak colt, Incredibolt, seemingly punched his ticket to the Kentucky Derby by winning last Saturday’s Virginia Derby, another hopeful, Chaos Agent, looks to do the same in this coming weekend’s Grade 3 Jeff Ruby, another prep offering major Kentucky Derby points. The colts carry the gray and blue silks now associated with the Bernhard family, whose patriarch, Jim Bernhard, died in November.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Stakes-winning sisters Bernietakescharge and Bernieandtherose both were on the work tab Sunday at Belmont Park as the pair of New York-bred females prepare for their upcoming engagements.

Kontiki, who showed immense promise as a juvenile last summer in Ohio, looks to keep rounding back into form in the $75,000 Southern Park Stakes for statebred 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs on Thursday at Mahoning Valley.

Kontiki, by Midshipman, was purchased by Stonestreet Farm at the 2024 Keeneland September yearling sale and is trained by Brad Cox. She finished sixth in her debut last April at Keeneland and then proceeded to win her next three starts by a combined 27 lengths.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Chad Summers said he couldn’t be prouder of his Grade 1-placed filly Dry Powder after she got back on the winning track with a very popular and impressive 5 3/4-length allowance and optional-claiming victory going a mile here Thursday. Dry Powder rallied from near the rear of the field in the run down the backstretch to score her third career victory with jockey Dylan Davis deputizing for the injured Irad Ortiz Jr.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Weather could prove the key to Sunday’s 10-race program at Gulfstream Park, which features a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool.

The sequence includes four turf races highlighted by an $87,000 allowance/optional $125,000 claiming race on the grass that goes as the penultimate leg of the sequence. Management is predicting a potential final pool of approximately $2 million assuming the popular gimmick is not hit Friday or Saturday.

Black Volt, a New York-bred who could ship to Aqueduct with the Wood Memorial-bound Express Kid, runs in Sunday’s second race at Sunland Park. The entry-level allowance at six furlongs also drew The Hell We Did, who is a half-brother to Senor Buscador.

Justin Evans trains both Black Volt and Express Kid and said plans are to fly Black Volt back East later this month. The horses both race for Paradise Equine Farm. Express Kid was second in last month’s Sunland Park Derby.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Majestic Oops has been learning some new tricks as an older mare and the 6-year-old has run arguably the best two races of her career this meet at Oaklawn Park.

She opened up her season in February with a sweeping win in the $150,000 American Beauty over six furlongs, then came back and won the most prestigious race of her career in the Grade 2, $400,000 Azeri last Saturday.

The promising 3-year-old colt Englishman was entered Thursday in a first-level sprint allowance that made it onto the March 19 Fair Grounds card.

Englishman drew the outside post among nine 3-year-olds entered in race 10, carded for six furlongs and open to $125,000 claimers.