OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though the workout was not officially recorded because of foggy conditions on Sunday, Withers Stakes winner Talk to Me Jimmy had an important drill last Sunday at Belmont Park for the Wood Memorial.

According to trainer Rudy Rodriguez, Talk to Me Jimmy worked five furlongs and galloped out six furlongs. But since the workout was done with the Belmont Park training track at least partially covered in fog, it will not go down as an official workout.

Rodriguez said jockey Ruben Silvera was aboard for the move.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The maiden Civil Liberty, third in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity and fourth in the Grade 1 American Pharoah at Santa Anita as a 2-year-old, is pointing to the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial on April 4, trainer Doug O’Neill told New York Racing Association publicity.

In his 3-year-old debut last Saturday at Santa Anita, Civil Liberty finished second, beaten a neck by Crude Velocity, in a fastly rated 6 1/2-furlong maiden race. Civil Liberty is by Independence Hall, who won the Nashua and Jerome stakes, both one-turn mile races at Aqueduct.

Long on miles and short on stakes wins, the jet-setting colt Buetane will ramble on to Colonial Downs as the likely favorite in the $500,000 Virginia Derby on Saturday.

Though Buetane regressed in his first route attempt last time out, trainer Bob Baffert believes there’s still a path for the $1.15 million colt to reach the Kentucky Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Two years ago, trainer Brian Lynch swept the three-race series for filly and mare turf sprinters held each winter during the Gulfstream Park Championship meet with Stone Silent. On Saturday, he’ll be favored to repeat that accomplishment when he sends out Moon Spun in quest of her fifth straight victory in the $125,000 Captiva Island Stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of Igniter weren’t necessarily looking to cut their colt farther back in distance. They were just looking for a race.

In Saturday’s $135,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct, the connections of Igniter appear to have found the ideal race to find out how effective their son of Volatile can be at six furlongs.

Due to an excess of entries, the $100,000 Sandy Bottom Stakes will be split into two divisions on Saturday at Colonial Downs. Of all the trainers who took their chance in the one-mile race for older fillies and mares, it’s possible that no one benefited from the split more than trainer Hugh McMahon.

By separating the white-hot Passage East and fast-improving Think Fast between the sixth and seventh races Saturday, McMahon has been able to double his Sandy Bottom chances with a pair of 4-year-old fillies he adores. Both are owned by the similarly fortunate Larry Rabold.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A pair of high-class comebackers try to reinvent themselves Saturday in separate turf races at Santa Anita.

Seal Team, a Grade 2-winning route horse, will transform to a sprinter when he returns in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on the hill. The San Simeon goes as race 3 on a nine-race program.

Iron Man Cal, runner-up in the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, will take his first step toward becoming a prominent older horse when he returns in a one-mile second-level allowance set for race 7.

Cynane has already defeated a few of her challengers in the $125,000 Queen Stakes on Saturday night at Turfway Park. However, she has never faced multiple stakes winner Ms. Tart.

Ms. Tart won the Grade 3 Royal North at Woodbine and the Satin and Lace at Presque Isle Downs last year for trainer Kevin Rice and owner Nathan McCauley. She was purchased for $375,000 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale as a racing or broodmare prospect by Mulholland Springs, and transferred by the farm and new co-owner Judy Pryor to John Ennis in Kentucky.