Kathleen O’Connell won five races on Sunday’s nine-race card at Tampa Bay Downs, not only a personal best, but believed to be a one-day record by a trainer at the Oldsmar, Fla., track, which this year is celebrating its 100th anniversary. 

Jockey Samuel Marin also rode five winners on Sunday’s card, three of them for O’Connell. Marin now has 134 wins at the meet and is chasing Antonio Gallardo’s single-meet record of 147 set at the 2014-15 stand. There are two weeks, or eight racing days, remaining in Tampa’s meet, which ends May 3. 

The Kentucky Derby bubble lost two, but picked up two horses over the weekend. 

Nearly and Bravaro, who sit 23 and 24, respectively, on the Derby points list - and that’s with unlikely Derby starters Stark Contrast and Iron Honor still on that list - are no longer under Derby consideration, according to their connections. 

ARCADIA, Calif. - Pavlovian will be ready for a fight should a speed duel develop in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 2.

“He doesn’t want anyone passing him,” jockey Edwin Maldonado said at Santa Anita on Sunday morning.

A few minutes earlier, Maldonado was aboard Pavlovian for the colt’s final workout in California before a scheduled departure to Kentucky on Tuesday.

Working in company with stablemate Robusta, Pavlovian went six furlongs in 1:15. Robusta was timed in 1:16.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Handicap hero White Abarrio left the Oaklawn Park backstretch around midday Sunday to return to Gulfstream Park, and his connections will soon start mapping out a plan to get him to either the Breeders’ Cup Classic or Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

White Abarrio earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 111 for his two-length win in Saturday's Oaklawn Handicap, a Grade 2, $1.25 million race in which the 7-year-old shuttled through the stretch to defeat both reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty and last year’s Preakness winner, Journalism.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Horse of the Year Sovereignty has emerged from his runner-up finish in the fastest running of the Grade 2, $1.25 million Oaklawn Handicap in three decades in good order, according to his trainer, Bill Mott.  

“He looked good,” Mott said Sunday. “We’re happy with him.”

The Saturday start was Sovereignty’s first at 4. He set the pace in the 1 1/8-mile race before finishing two lengths behind winner White Abarrio. The winner covered the distance on a fast track that took some morning rain in 1:47.49.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Solitude Dude suffered a cut on a front ankle but otherwise came out of his two-length victory in Saturday’s Bay Shore Stakes in good order, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said Sunday. The Bay Shore was a steppingstone to the Grade 1 Woody Stephens at Saratoga on June 6. 

“We needed a filler to go to the Woody Stephens, this made the most sense,” Joseph said. "I didn’t want to go to Churchill Downs to run him [in the Pat Day Mile] and then cut him back. We need to stay at seven-eighths. We have a really talented colt.” 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Gratefully, the undefeated filly who was scratched out of the Grade 2 Giant’s Causeway Stakes on April 12 due to a foot bruise, will be pointed to the Grade 2, $250,000 Intercontinental at Saratoga on June 4, trainer Robert Falcone Jr. said. 

Falcone said he had no issue with the scratch, adding  “two days later, she was sound as a dollar. Terrible timing.” 

Falcone said Gratefully would remain in Kentucky until May 1, when he begins shipping horses to Saratoga. 

OZONE PARK, N.Y.  - The Irish-bred Sandtrap is part of a successful turf family and it looks like she is prepared to carry on the tradition. 

A full sister to Grade 1 winner Carl Spackler out of the multiple graded stakes winner Zindaya, Sandtrap returned from an 18-month layoff on Saturday to win a first-level allowance race by 4 1/2 lengths at Aqueduct. She may have earned only an 82 Beyer Speed Figure, but trainer Chad Brown believes there is more to come. 

Unless the field drastically changes in the coming days, trainer Chad Brown plans to run just one horse – Emerging Market – in Kentucky Derby 152 on May 2 at Churchill Downs.