OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott has had a solid Aqueduct fall meet with 10 winners from 48 starters, including victories from four of his last 10 runners.

Included in Mott’s recent run of success are 3-year-old fillies Boule and Greatreviews and the 2-year-old filly Lemoona. While Lemoona has already been shipped to south Florida, Boule and Greatreviews will likely make their next starts in New York.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Control Group, winner of the Grade 3 Discovery Stakes on Nov. 25, figures to be a heavy favorite when he returns to New York-bred competition in Sunday’s $100,000 Alex M. Robb Stakes at 1 1/8 miles.

Control Group, a 3-year-old son of Posse, has won 4 of his last 5 starts, his lone loss being a runner-up finish behind Twisted Tom in the $300,000 Empire Classic at Belmont Park on Oct. 21.

Trainer Todd Pletcher doesn’t plan to run anything in Monday’s $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, but he is already looking forward to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes on Feb. 3, where he plans to run the $2 million auction purchase Marconi.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Seven Trumpets has yet to receive the fanfare allotted other members of trainer Dale Romans’s arsenal of soon-to-be 3-year-old males hoping to jump on the Triple Crown trail. That could change Monday when Seven Trumpets kicks off his 3-year-old season in the $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct.

Though no longer graded and now run at a one-turn mile, the Jerome is the first race of 2018 that will offer qualifying points toward the May 5 Kentucky Derby. There are 17 points (10-4-2-1) awarded to the Jerome’s top four finishers.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Live racing scheduled for Thursday at Aqueduct was canceled due to extreme cold, which is forecast to return over the weekend.

Thursday’s forecast called for a high temperature of 20 degrees with wind speeds from 15 to 25 miles per hour, creating wind chills in the single digits. Racing is scheduled to resume Friday with temperatures slightly higher and wind speeds slightly lower.

Forever Unbridled, the Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner last month at Del Mar, remains in training at Fair Grounds, but no plans – either for retirement or racing – have yet been made for the 5-year-old mare, trainer Dallas Stewart said.

Stewart and owner Charles Fipke have Seeking the Soul for the Pegasus World Cup next month at Gulfstream, a race in which Fipke originally said he would start Forever Unbridled. Forever Unbridled worked Dec. 11 at Fair Grounds but has not breezed since.

Valadorna knocked out the first stakes win of her career Tuesday at Fair Grounds in the $50,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes.

“Now we can think about taking on the big girls,” trainer Mark Casse said.

Trainer Mark Casse will have two fillies, Heavenly Love and Wonder Gadot, in New Orleans for the first 3-year-old dirt-route stakes of the Fair Grounds season on Jan. 13, but both might not run in the same race.

Heavenly Love, as has been the plan for several weeks now, will race against fillies in the Silverbulletday Stakes, but Wonder Gadot could step outside her own sex to face males in the Lecomte Stakes, Casse said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The well-traveled Daddys Lil Darling will race at her seventh track this year when she starts in Saturday’s Grade 1 American Oaks at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It’s official: The 3-year-old colt Bowies Hero is best at a mile on turf.

On Tuesday, Bowies Hero won his fourth stakes in the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile against 3-year-olds at Santa Anita. All the stakes wins have been at a mile on turf. Trainer Phil D’Amato said he might start Bowies Hero in the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile against older horses on March 10.