HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Edgard Zayas made a triumphant return to the saddle after being sidelined more than three months due to injury when guiding first-time starter Buddy’s Run to an easy 10 3/4-length victory in the second race on Thursday’s opening day program of the spring-summer meet at Gulfstream.

OZONE PARK N.Y. – Vino Rosso, who won last year’s Wood Memorial after finishing fourth in the Tampa Bay Derby, will seek to become a Grade 1 winner in Saturday’s $400,000 Carter Stakes.

Vino Rosso came off a 6 1/2-month layoff to win the $150,000 Stymie Stakes going a mile here on March 9. That victory made him 3 for 3 at Aqueduct, including a debut victory going seven furlongs in 2017.

OZONE PARK N.Y. – While the Wood Memorial has not yet proved a path to success in the Kentucky Derby for trainer Todd Pletcher, the Tampa Bay Downs route has been quite productive in the Wood Memorial for the seven-time Eclipse Award-winning conditioner.

Pletcher has won the Wood five times, second only to the seven victories recorded by trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons. Pletcher’s last three Wood winners – Vino Rosso (2018), Outwork (2016), and Verrazano (2013) – have come to Aqueduct via stakes at Tampa.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito ventured to Oaklawn Park with a division of horses for the first time in his career this winter, and one of the highlights of his meet has been the development of Lenstar.

The 5-year-old son of Shackleford has won back-to-back allowances in his two starts over the local strip.

“Lenstar really came around here,” Zito said Sunday. “He likes it. He’s going to run in the Oaklawn Mile. He deserves it.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita will not run any races on its unique hillside turf course this weekend after a horse sustained a fatal injury in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes on the course Sunday.

“We’ll pause for now,” said Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, the track’s parent company.

He did not speculate on when racing will resume on the hillside course but said track officials “will look at data” of races on the course. After Sunday’s program, racing is not scheduled to resume until Friday, April 12.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Extra Hope was not entered Wednesday for Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby so that the highly promising colt can undergo a precautionary physical, trainer Richard Mandella said.

Extra Hope was fourth in the first division of the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 16 and has not recovered from that race to Mandella’s satisfaction.

“I’m going to scan him and look him over,” Mandella said. “I can’t get him back to where he was before the last race.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Enaya Alrabb, second in two graded stakes since early December, will miss Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks because of an undisclosed injury.

“She’ll probably be out for six months,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Wednesday.

O’Neill wouldn’t disclose specifics of Enaya Alrabb’s injury but said she would not require surgery.

“It’s very disappointing, but she needs time,” he said.

He said the injury was diagnosed Tuesday morning “after going over her.”

Although he’s won just one race since August of 2017 – a higher-level optional claimer here last summer – Gunnevera’s bankroll just continues to grow and grow and grow. The honest-as-they-come 5-year-old son of Dialed In added another $1.2 million to the coffers of owner Salomon Del Valle after his third-place finish in last Saturday’s Dubai World Cup, swelling his lifetime earnings to more than $5.5 million.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Roadster was breathtaking in his debut. He had his breath taken away in his next race.

Eight months later, in the Grade 1, $1 million Santa Anita Derby on Saturday, Roadster will make his bid for a berth in the May 4 Kentucky Derby. For a horse with a mere three starts, he’s had an eventful journey to get to this point, including time off for throat surgery to address a malfunctioning wind flap.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Just 11 days after finishing a game second, less than a length behind By My Standards in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby, Spinoff was back on the work tab Wednesday morning at Palm Meadows, breezing four furlongs in 48.77 seconds in company with 2018 Louisiana Derby winner Noble Indy.

“It was a last minute deal moving the work up to this morning,” said trainer Todd Pletcher. “He’s doing so well, I just felt like it was time to let him stretch his legs a little bit and I thought he breezed well.”