HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Wayne Catalano is sitting in the catbird seat with his 3-year-olds. Not only does the 60-year-old trainer have one of the top Kentucky Oaks prospects in Farrell, but he also has Uncontested training lights-out for the Grade 2, $900,000 Rebel on Saturday at Oaklawn Park.

The Rebel offers 85 eligibility points for the Kentucky Derby, to be divided among its first four finishers 50-20-10-5. Uncontested was part of an 11-horse field when entries for the 1 1/16-mile race were taken Wednesday. He will break from post 2 under Channing Hill.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Even with the imposing presence of the red-hot Curlin’s Approval in the lineup, a field of eight fillies and mares was drawn for Saturday’s Grade 2 Inside Information.

The field includes the supplemental nominee Wheatfield, a multiple stakes winner who will ship here from Fair Grounds for the seven-furlong dash.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Weekend Hideaway, who had his best year yet in 2016 at the age of 6, is getting close to embarking on his 7-year-old campaign after working five furlongs in 1:00.53 here Wednesday under regular exercise rider Lisa Bartkowski.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – He’s not even in the top 10 in the standings for the Gulfstream championship meeting, but ask local horseplayers who the hottest trainer on the grounds has been of late, and most will likely answer Saffie Joseph Jr.

Sunland Park officials anticipate drawing 3-year-olds from California, Florida, and the Midwest for the New Mexico track’s richest Thoroughbred offerings, the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby and the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks. The races will anchor a card of seven stakes on March 26.

There were 458 nominations, which were free, for the 1 1/8-mile Sunland Derby in February, and this week the track had a working list of 13 probables. Entries will be taken next Wednesday, said Dustin Dix, director of racing operations for Sunland. The maximum gate is 12.

Katie Davis, who went down in a nasty-looking spill at Laurel Park last Saturday, was too sore to ride the next day but was not badly injured, according to her agent, the former rider Joe Rocco.

“All of the X-rays came back negative,” said Rocco, a winner of 3,732 races between 1978 and 2013. “She should be back riding Friday.”

Rocco also represents 10-pound apprentice Sarah Shaffer, who last Sunday rode for the first time since breaking ribs and her collarbone in a Nov. 11 spill. Shaffer needs one more win to trigger the beginning of her one-year apprenticeship.

There is a lot going on at Laurel Park on Saturday. The track has five stakes, a luncheon for all current owners and breeders, and a Fantasy Owners Day schedule of events for those wanting to learn more about racehorse ownership.

The Fantasy Owners agenda, sponsored by the Maryland Jockey Club, the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, and the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, has drawn more interest than originally anticipated, according to Sal Sinatra, president of the Maryland Jockey Club.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Finest City, last year’s champion female sprinter, will stretch out to 1 1/8 miles on Saturday in the Grade 1, $400,000 Santa Margarita Stakes, the championship race of the meet for older females.

Finest City won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint here last fall and in her only start since then captured the Grade 2 Santa Monica here on Jan. 21. Both races were at seven furlongs. The Santa Margarita will be her first start at 1 1/8 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 1 status of the $1 million Santa Anita Derby, coupled with the defection of Mastery from the potential lineup, has caused trainer Todd Pletcher to consider the race for a couple of his Kentucky Derby prospects, he said on Wednesday.

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a person who compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others. It also is the title of a Steely Dan song from the 1970s.

Confusing? Well, so is Bodhisattva, the horse. Jose Corrales has trained Bodhisattva for three years but is still trying to get a handle on him.

“He is a complicated horse,” Corrales said. “He can fool you.”