Weekend Hideaway will make his fifth consecutive appearance in the $100,000 Affirmed Success Stakes on Friday’s opening day of the 54-day Belmont Park spring-summer meet.

Weekend Hideaway won the 2016 Affirmed Success after finishing third in 2014 and seventh in 2015. Last year, Weekend Hideaway finished fourth, beaten three-quarters of a length.

Weekend Hideaway will break from the rail as the 124-pound highweight under Luis Saez.

While trainer Chad Brown has his plans set for 3-year-old turf filly Significant Form, things are more fluid for Rushing Fall, the undefeated winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – All three of trainer Chad Brown’s wins Sunday at Aqueduct came with horses returning from a layoff, none more impressive than Significant Form, who galloped to a front-running 6 1/4-length victory in the $100,000 Memories of Silver Stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After a harsh winter weather-wise and at the entry box, the New York Racing Association enjoyed a pleasant April at Aqueduct.

All-sources handle for 13 days of racing at Aqueduct from April 6 through 22 was approximately $95.7 million, up 14.7 percent compared with the corresponding 13-day period in 2017, when Aqueduct handled $83.4 million.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland’s 16-day spring meet ends Friday following a final three-day stretch during which Brad Cox and Florent Geroux appear to have an edge in securing their first Keeneland titles as top trainer and jockey, respectively.

With six wins here last week, Cox has surged ahead of two trainers also having huge meets. Following a Sunday three-bagger, Cox had 12 winners from just 23 starters, with still six more horses to run Wednesday through Friday. He is followed by Chad Brown (11 of 21, just two more to run) and Wesley Ward (10 of 34, five more).

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The sun rose Monday over Kentucky, although it was hard to tell through the rain and gloom. The emphasis was on gloom for Tim Glyshaw, who was dealing with an all-too-visceral case of heartbreak approaching 48 hours.

“This has been the toughest time,” Glyshaw said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Iggy Puglisi has not ridden since mid-March after suffering a severely sprained ankle, and is hoping to resume physical therapy this week for a comeback in late May.

Puglisi said Sunday that he hoped to receive doctor’s clearance this week to begin exercising the ankle, which was injured in a starting gate incident at Santa Anita on March 18.

“It was bruised and swollen,” Puglisi said “Nothing was broken.”

Puglisi said he was advised by doctors to rest for a month. He said the ankle was flexible in some positions compared to others.

ARCADIA, Calif. – With several stakes-class sprinters in his stable, Peter Miller may send Bobby Abu Dhabi to Belmont Park for the Grade 2 True North Stakes on June 8.

Bobby Abu Dhabi won the Grade 2 Kona Gold Stakes here at 6 1/2 furlongs on Saturday for his first stakes win. A 5-2 chance, Bobby Abu Dhabi stalked the pace before pulling clear to win by 1 1/4 lengths over 7-5 favorite Ransom the Moon. The Kona Gold was Ransom the Moon’s first start since a fifth-place finish in the BC Sprint at Del Mar last November.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 3 American Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday is scheduled as a prep race for the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on May 28. Trainer Kenny Black may take a different route with What a View, who won his fifth stakes with a minor upset in the American.

Black said Sunday the $400,000 Shoemaker is an option, as is the $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes for California-breds at a mile on turf on May 20.

“I think I’ll give my boss and partners the info and leave it up to them,” Black said in a text message. “He seems to have come out of it in good order.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – The brilliant 3-year-old filly Midnight Bisou is nearing the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 4 in a manner that leaves her 78-year-old trainer, Bill Spawr, in awe.

Spawr spoke glowingly of Midnight Bisou’s current condition on Sunday morning, a few hours after the filly worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 at Santa Anita before dawn.

“She’s getting better,” Spawr said. “She’s scary. Her bodyweight is right. She’s confident in the way she acts.”