HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The top Kentucky Derby prospects Game Winner and Improbable will lead separate divisions of the Grade 2 Rebel on Saturday at Oaklawn Park. The races are part of a program of four stakes that includes the Grade 2, $350,000 Azeri, which drew Elate, and the $350,000 Essex Handicap, led by Giant Expectations.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Linda Rice finished first and third in last year’s Correction Stakes at Aqueduct when Sounds Delicious went gate to wire while Startwithsilver rallied from last to just miss second.

Sounds Delicious and Startwithsilver, plus stablemates Sower and Honor Way, all were entered Wednesday by Rice for Saturday’s 79th renewal of the $100,000 Correction for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

The Correction drew just two other runners, Yorkiepoo Princess and Filibustin.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Danny Gargan plans to take a less-is-more approach when it comes to Divine Miss Grey this year.

Gargan said he doesn’t envision Divine Miss Grey racing 10 times this year like she did in 2018, but he’s hoping to target some big races with the 5-year-old daughter of Divine Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – While the California racing industry held its collective breath, it was full speed ahead Wednesday morning on the main track at Santa Anita.

For the first time since last week, when the main track closed and racing was suspended, timed workouts took place Wednesday. It did not take long for Santa Anita to look much as it normally does after the track opens at 5 a.m. – racehorses running fast, working out at full speed.

Four-time Louisiana Derby-winning trainer Todd Pletcher will probably have a chance to notch his fifth winner in the $1 million race March 23.

Fair Grounds racing officials reported Wednesday that Pletcher plans to start Spinoff, and Pletcher in a text message said there was a “good chance” Spinoff ships from Florida, pending his work Saturday at Palm Beach Downs.

For all that he’s accomplished in his career, and it’s been a lot, Richard Mandella has had no luck in the Kentucky Derby. Not that it’s been a priority. After all, he’s only run six horses in the race, beginning in 1984, and hasn’t had a starter since 2004.

STICKNEY, Ill. – In race 6 on Friday at Hawthorne, you will find the horses Artic Vortex and Ice Attack, names that adequately describe the way things stand as the Chicago-area track opens its spring meeting.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tequilita, a two-time graded stakes winner at Gulfstream, could be making the final start of her career when likely to come favored Saturday in the weekend highlight, the Grade 2, $200,000 Inside Information.

Trained by Michael Matz for his wife, owner-breeder Dorothy “Dee Dee” Matz, Tequilita most recently was third in the Feb. 16 Royal Delta. The 5-year-old mare has earned $680,800 from 20 prior starts.

“We’ll see how she runs Saturday and decide whether or not to run her once more” in the April 6 Madison at Keeneland, Michael Matz said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jason Servis had a strike rate of 30 for 67 (44.8 percent) at the Gulfstream Park championship meet as another five-day race week got under way here Wednesday, and chances are good the veteran trainer will improve on that gaudy record by the time Friday action is finished.

Servis was scheduled to send out one starter Wednesday and Thursday – each of them favored – and he’s likely to have two favorites from as many starters here Friday in Bronzed (race 6) and Richie’s Sister (race 8).

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It won’t be long now before Rusty Arnold gets home to Kentucky, but his latest stable star, Concrete Rose, probably won’t be racing at the Keeneland spring meet.

“As much as I like running at Keeneland, I’m probably going to wait until the race on Oaks Day,” Arnold said this week from his Palm Meadows winter base, referring to the Edgewood Stakes on the May 3 Kentucky Oaks undercard at Churchill Downs.