New York-based trainer David Jacobson swept into Oaklawn Park on opening weekend and won with his first two starters on the first card of the meet Dec. 8. He’ll attempt to keep his momentum going Sunday with Kingdom.

Kingdom will represent the barn in the fifth race, a $50,000 starter allowance for 3-year-olds and up over six furlongs. He enters off a third-place finish in a Dec. 1 starter allowance at Aqueduct.

“I like the race for him,” Jacobson said. “I like that there appears to be very little speed, which he’s full of.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Manny Franco, who will end 2023 as the leading jockey on the New York Racing Association circuit in wins, will begin 2024 on the sidelines, serving a three-day careless riding suspension handed him by the stewards.

Franco, who waived his right of appeal, will serve the days on Jan. 1, 4, and 5 for his ride on Rollin in Dough, who won the sixth race on Dec. 9 at Aqueduct. Rollin in Dough lugged in during the stretch run, causing Romero Maragh to steady slightly aboard The Mighty Don, who ultimately finished last.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Lone Rock, the top-class marathon runner who was retired over the summer, is on a waiting list to join his fellow retirees at Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky., according to his longtime trainer, Robertino Diodoro.

Lone Rock, a multiple Grade 2 winner of $1.4 million, raced some at Oaklawn during his career and in December 2021 captured the local Tinsel Stakes. He now lives on a farm not far from the track.

Old Friends admits approved horses as space permits, said Barbara Fossum, who is the organization’s horse intake manager.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Dr B, who won the Grade 3 Go for Wand Stakes here Dec. 2, is likely to run in the $150,000 Interborough Stakes on Jan. 20 and then be retired, her trainer, Butch Reid, said Friday.

Reid and part-owner Chuck Zacney had indicated the $200,000 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel Park in February was a goal in 2024, but in order to get to a top-flight stallion she will be retired before February, Reid said.

Dr B, who won the Go for Wand two years in a row, has a record of 6-7-2 from 22 starts and earnings of $583,240.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Linda Rice appears to have found herself another stakes-caliber female sprinter in Ain’t Broke, who was visually impressive winning a second-level allowance Thursday at Aqueduct.

Ain’t Broke, a 4-year-old daughter of Dialed In, made an eye-catching last-to-first move from the three-eighths pole to the quarter pole, then sustained her run to the wire to win by five lengths.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The well-traveled My Destiny will finally get a chance to compete again over her home grounds when she makes what could be the final start of her career next Saturday in the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl. The six-furlong Sugar Swirl is one of four stakes on a card that also features the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector.

Saratoga Secret will launch what Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas hopes is a significant Oaklawn Park campaign on Sunday. The first-level allowance for 2-year-old fillies could serve as her springboard to the track’s prep series for the Kentucky Oaks.

Sunday’s eighth-race field of 10 includes Canterbury Park stakes winner Xtreme Diva, sharp debut winner Coastal Invasion, the well-bred Illusive Star, the win-streaking Tortuga Island, and Southern California runners Cheeky Gal and Feisty Mitole.

Dont Sass Kvn set the fastest qualifying time for Sunday’s $162,700 Southern California Derby at Los Alamitos with a brilliant two-length win in the last of three 400-yard trials on Nov. 26.

The victory leaves Dont Sass Kvn with the role of favorite for Sunday’s final and well-positioned to win his first stakes in his sixth appearance in such a race.

Owned by Bradbury Racing, Dont Sass Kvn is trained by Paul Jones, who has won the Southern California Derby a record seven times, most recently in 2013.