Canaletto and The Puma, who were both under consideration for Saturday’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, instead are being pointed to the Grade 3, $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby on March 7.

Canaletto, trained by Chad Brown, was an impressive eight-length debut winner of a one-mile maiden race at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25. Brown had mentioned the Tampa Bay Derby shortly after that race but then got intrigued by the Fountain of Youth when it was revealed that the 2-year-old champion, Ted Noffey, was sidelined. In the end, Brown stuck with his first instinct.

Trainer Jorge Delgado may not necessarily have been looking to run X Y Prime back in 11 days off his last race, but the right condition came up at this time and X Y Prime looks like the right horse in Wednesday’s second-level allowance/optional $32,000 claiming feature at Tampa Bay Downs.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The old veteran Mish and young upstart Elnajd are certain to garner most of the attention in Sunday’s $86,000 main event, a six-furlong dash for older horses to be decided under allowance and optional-claiming conditions on the main track.

The 9-year-old Mish enters the race with 11 victories in 38 career starts, while the 4-year-old Elnajd has just a single race on his résumé, having registered a game 1 1/2-length maiden win when launching his career at Fair Grounds during the final week of 2025.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Friday morning was a busy one in the local area for potential Fountain of Youth starters with the bulk of the action taking place at the Palm Meadows training center. Bravaro, Solitude Dude, and Napoleon Solo all turned in sharp works a little more than 24 hours before the important Kentucky Derby prep was to be drawn here Saturday afternoon.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Letta’s Legacy, who will be seeking her fourth straight win in Sunday’s featured allowance at Oaklawn Park, is a special homebred for trainer C.R. Trout.

She keeps the memory of his late wife, Arletta, alive.

“My wife had named all of my horses through the years and then when she passed away, we thought we’d name one after her and that’s what we did,” Trout said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Gary Sciacca remembers feeding carrots to Forego when he was too young to even know the horse’s legend. Later in life, Sciacca got to train for and become friends with the likes of Bill Parcells and Bobby Flay. In 1996, Sciacca hung out at the Breeders’ Cup with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.

“A lot of great memories,” Sciacca said. “The business has been super to me my whole life. I’m very fortunate and blessed to have had a great career.”

The 5-year-old horse Corporate Power came into Thursday’s seventh race at Fair Grounds with a recency edge over his Steve Asmussen-trained stablemate, Conquest Warrior, another 5-year-old.

Corporate Power had last raced in November 2024, finishing fifth in the Discovery Stakes at Aqueduct. Conquest Warrior, meanwhile, raced for the first time since checking in a distant fourth behind Fierceness in the 2024 Florida Derby.

The Risen Star Stakes this past Saturday at Fair Grounds came three days before Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday. Ash Wednesday marked, for Catholics in New Orleans, the beginning of the solemn 40-day season of Lent. And at Fair Grounds, the 35 days separating the Risen Star and the Louisiana Derby might have been assumed also to mark a period of relatively quiet reflection. The 3-year-old colt Reagan’s Honor was not ready for the party to end.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Greenwich Village will have plenty of chances to prove he is more than just a turf horse, but for now, his turf description suits him just fine.

Fresh from a last-to-first win in a hillside sprint stakes, Greenwich Village stretches to a mile on turf Sunday at Santa Anita in the $100,000 Pasadena Stakes for 3-year-olds. Eleven are entered, but just 10 can start.

There will be a pick six carryover of $40,088. The sequence begins in Race 5.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There is no stakes race Saturday at Aqueduct but Grade 3 stakes winner Irish Maxima will look to jumpstart her career in a conditioned allowance race for female sprinters that serves as the feature on the nine-race card.

From August 2024 to April 2025, Irish Maxima won six of seven starts, capped by a 1 1/2-length victory in the Grade 3 Distaff at Aqueduct. It went sideways for Irish Maxima thereafter as she was soundly beaten by Ways and Means in the Grade 2 Bed o’ Roses at Saratoga.