OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With his focus being on races from April to November, trainer David Donk is somewhat in limbo with his filly Fingal’s Cave, who came off a 14-month layoff to win Thursday’s $100,000 Bay Ridge Stakes for New York-bred females at Aqueduct.

Donk said he will point Fingal’s Cave to open-company stakes. Races such as the Grade 1, $600,000 Madison on April 6 at Keeneland or the Ruffian, a one-mile stakes likely to be run in early or mid-May at Aqueduct, are somewhat intriguing to him.

Where and when Fingal’s Cave might run before then is still unsettled.

HALLANDALE, Fla. – Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. knows a little something about Twilight Gleaming, having won three stakes from four opportunities aboard the speedy filly, including the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar in 2021.

So when he dismounted after breezing her four furlongs in 49.80 seconds on Dec. 20 at Payson Park with “a big smile on his face,” according to Wesley Ward, it had the trainer grinning from ear to ear as well. Twilight Gleaming makes her local debut in Sunday’s $100,000 Abundantia Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though he has already won around two turns, Regalo will cut back to a one-turn mile when he starts in the $150,000 Jerome Stakes on Jan. 6 at Aqueduct.

The Jerome is the first of four races for 3-year-olds on this circuit to be run between January and April that offer qualifying points to the May 4 Kentucky Derby.

Regalo, a son of Maximus Mischief trained by Brittany Russell, won a seven-furlong maiden race in his second career start on Oct. 26 at Laurel and then came back to win a 1 1/16-mile first-level allowance race by 4 1/2 lengths on Dec. 9.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Even though he entered Signator in Saturday’s Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes at Gulfstream Park, it was always trainer Shug McGaughey’s intent to run the improving 3-year-old son of Tapit in Sunday’s $150,000 Queens County Stakes at Aqueduct.

Once assured the Queens County would fill, McGaughey on Thursday put Signator on a van from Payson Park in Indiantown, Fla., headed to New York, where Signator will make his stakes debut in the nine-furlong Queens County.

Ruby Nell’s only losses in her last six starts since late May have been in Grade 1 races at Del Mar in August and November.

The other four wins include two stakes, a fine record that will leave her favored in Sunday’s $100,000 Lady of Shamrock Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.

Even her most recent loss, when fifth in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes at a mile on turf on Dec. 3 at Del Mar, casts Ruby Nell in a positive light. She was the best-placed runner in a field of 12 not trained by Chad Brown.

It’s fair to say that when Carpis debuted Dec. 9 at Fair Grounds, a talented Louisiana-bred 2-year-old slipped through the cracks.

Carpis, ridden by Erica Murray, broke alertly, set a strong pace, and never wavered, coming home a 2 1/4-length winner of a Louisiana-bred maiden sprint. Carpis ran six furlongs in 1:10.94 and earned an 83 Beyer Speed Figure, one of only two juvenile maiden winners this meet, Louisiana-bred or otherwise, to hit a number that high. All that, and Carpis paid $70.40 to win.

Back to Ohio will be heading back to Ohio at some point. She made a rare start outside of the Ohio-bred ranks on Dec. 16 at Oaklawn and won a two-other-than allowance for fillies and mares by more than two lengths. With the win, the 3-year-old filly by Midshipman improved her record to 9 for 10.

“How about that?” trainer Larry Rivelli said. “What a horse. She’s unbelievable. She’s just a picture of consistency.

Magic Grant, who won his maiden in the Clever Trevor at Remington Park before running a close third in the track’s $300,000 Springboard Mile on Dec. 15, is being pointed toward the Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn, trainer Eddie Milligan Jr. said Thursday.

The Grade 3, $800,000 race is Jan. 27. It carries points for the Kentucky Derby.

Magic Grant earned three points for his effort in the Springboard Mile, a race in which he closed for third. He finished two lengths behind winner Otto the Conqueror.

The undefeated Miss Code West will likely launch her 3-year-old season in a Kentucky Oaks points race at either Oaklawn Park or Sunland Park.

She’s wrapped up a 2-year-old campaign in which she won all four of her starts, capped by the Trapeze on Dec. 15 at Remington Park. It was the third consecutive stakes win for the filly – and her second at a mile. A few days later, Miss Code West was voted Remington’s horse of the meet for owners Jeff and Julie Puryear and trainer Kevin Scholl.

I’m the Boss of Me will be looking to nail down her first stakes win Saturday when she takes on the sharp 3-year-old fillies Topsy and High Class in the $150,000 Poinsettia at Oaklawn Park.

The 5 1/2-furlong stakes for fillies and mares shares a card with an allowance sprint that drew multiple stakes winner Skelly. The winner of last year’s Grade 3 Count Fleet, Skelly will be seeking his sixth straight win.