Stronger Than Ever, the 33-1 upset winner of the Silverbulletday Stakes on Saturday, will stay at Fair Grounds and run back in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes on Feb. 17, trainer Ken McPeek said Sunday.

Cedartown won his second stakes in a row, taking the $75,000 Louisiana Stakes at Fair Grounds on Saturday by 2 lengths and taking another step toward his connections' goal of getting to the New Orleans Handicap.

Cedartown, who swooped past favored The Player at the top of the stretch, beat Scuba by two lengths and ran 1 1/16 miles on dirt in 1:44.18, earning a career-best 100 Beyer Speed Figure. In his previous race, he had gotten a 96 Beyer winning the Zia Park Derby by 1 3/4 lengths over Untrapped.

NEW ORLEANS – Instilled Regard had his head out of his stall and nipped at a passerby’s sweater Sunday morning, the day after he won the Lecomte Stakes here at Fair Grounds, and the positive signs he gave appeared backed up by what trainer Jerry Hollendorfer had seen earlier in the day.

“We looked at him early this morning, jogged him down the road,” Hollendorfer said. “He ate good last night. We’re happy with how he came out of it.”

Firenze Fire, the half-length winner of Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, will most likely make his next start in the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct on March 10, trainer Jason Servis said Sunday.

Servis said Firenze Fire would be nominated to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes on Feb. 3, but he would only consider running the horse “If he’s coming over the webbing,” Servis said. “It’s safe to say we’ll do the Gotham.”

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Tim Glyshaw is plotting a 2018 campaign for the two best horses in his stable, Bucchero and Bullard’s Alley.

Bullard’s Alley was a respectable sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, while Bucchero was a close fourth in the BC Turf Sprint.

“We’d like to get points in nice races to try to get back to the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill with them,” Glyshaw said.

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Sam David is running hard with the opportunity he got last year.

David was training a handful of horses and breaking some youngsters at the Copper Crowne Training Center in Opelousas, La., when the owner-breeder partnership of John Duvieilh and Earl and Keith Hernandez asked him last summer if he’d like to join their team.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Saturday morning was busy throughout this area for potential Pegasus World Cup starters.

Most action was over a sloppy track at Gulfstream Park West, where Gunnevera, Sharp Azteca, and War Story all went five furlongs in their penultimate works for the $16 million event. Singing Bullet and Giussepe the Great breezed at Gulfstream Park, although neither is currently confirmed for the big event.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher has won three of the last four runnings of the Florida Derby with Constitution (2014), Materiality (2015), and last year’s Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming. If he’s to add to that impressive résumé this spring, it could be with Noble Indy, a son of Take Charge Indy who kept his record perfect after two starts with a game, half-length victory going 1 1/16 miles under allowance conditions here last week.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Expect to see Chocolate Coated in a turf stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita in coming days.

Whether Monday’s Grade 3 Megahertz Stakes at a mile or Saturday’s Grade 3 Las Cienegas Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course is the chosen race will be decided this weekend, trainer Neil French said.

“We have to make a difficult decision,” French said Saturday. “The hill race looks like it’s coming up a little easier than the race on Monday.

“If she runs on Monday, I think she’ll run well.”

The 2018 Emerald Downs stakes schedule looks similar to last year, with a notable scheduling change for the statebred Washington Cup events. The schedule comprises 28 stakes worth a total of $1.45 million during a 67-day meet that opens April 22.