ELMONT, N.Y. – Having won with his first starter in more than 10 years on Saturday at Belmont Park, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. will look to go 2 for 2 on Thursday when he runs Timbuktu in a starter allowance that goes as Thursday’s eighth race at Belmont Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Kentucky Derby Day 2023 will be easy to remember for Abdul Alsagoor.

For the first time in his career, the apprentice jockey had a three-win day at Santa Anita.

“I hoped I would have a good day and I proved it,” Alsagoor said late Saturday afternoon. “It’s wonderful to get the right opportunities. The trainers had faith in me.”

Despite two comprehensive losses in recent months, the Northern California stakes winner Chase the Chaos will be sent to Pimlico for the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes on May 20.

Chase the Chaos will be a longshot, which is not an issue for trainer Ed Moger Jr.

“We’re going in with no expectations,” Moger said Sunday. “He’ll be 99-1.”

Churchill Downs begins its post-Kentucky Derby season with an eight-race “Twilight Thursday” card with a first post of 5 p.m.

There are a pair of allowance-level events on the card, including a $127,000 conditioned allowance for 3-year-olds and up going 1 3/16 miles on the main track. Giant Game, who first got notice when third in the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile for Dale Romans, comes in off back-to-back runner-up efforts at Gulfstream. He is stretching out after both those efforts came at a mile.

Practical Move is recovering from an illness that prevented a start in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and will be back at trainer Tim Yakteen’s base at Santa Anita as early as the middle of this week.

The winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 8, Practical Move was withdrawn from the Kentucky Derby because of an elevated temperature last Thursday.

Yakteen said that Practical Move’s condition is improving and that the colt will be flown to California as early as Wednesday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Although run on a synthetic track, Turfway Park’s signature Kentucky Derby prep has become an enticing spot for horsemen since Churchill Downs Inc., the parent company for both the Florence, Ky., track and the flagship Louisville location, purchased Turfway in 2019 and increased the qualifying point value of the race to 100 for the winner. Now, the race’s form is holding its own.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Saturday’s undercard stakes at Churchill Downs had major implications to the developing field for the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap on June 10 at Belmont Park – a race that has long been crucial to championship aspirations.

In its last 10 runnings, the race has been won by divisional champions Honor Code (2015 older dirt male), Mitole (2019 male sprinter), and Flightline (2022 Horse of the Year, older dirt male).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – When Matareya earned her first career Grade 1 victory last year in the Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park, her performance was somewhat lost in conversations involving Eclipse Award champion Echo Zulu, who had been a veterinarian scratch on the way to the gate. On Saturday, Matareya won another Grade 1, but there was a lot of chatter about the troubled trip for reigning divisional champion Goodnight Olive in the Derby City Distaff.

Brad Cox won six stakes at Churchill Downs and one more at Belmont Park last week, but it was the big one that got away that left him feeling a tad empty Sunday morning.

Despite having four of the 18 runners in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, Cox went away empty-handed with Angel of Empire’s third-place finish behind Mage the best placing among his quartet. Hit Show ran a respectable fifth, while Verifying and Jace’s Road finished 16th and 17th, respectively.

Howgreatisnate will try to get rolling again when he runs in an open allowance race with a $100,000 claiming option Thursday at Gulfstream Park. The one-mile race for 3-year-olds on the main track goes as race 7 on an eight-race card that begins at 12:50 p.m. Eastern. It is part of the Rainbow 6, which has a guaranteed pool of $475,000.

Trained by Andrew Simoff, Howgreatisnate went undefeated in four starts as a 2-year-old, which included victories in the restricted $100,000 First Dash on Sept. 29 at Delaware and the $75,000 Future Stars on Dec. 5 at Parx Racing.