LEXINGTON, Ky. – Aside from death and taxes, there aren’t many certainties in life – unless you count Wesley Ward winning with 2-year-olds every spring at Keeneland.

Ward began the 15-day meet by sending out Fairyland to win the meet opener Friday, a 4 1/2-furlong baby race.

“We’re really excited about this filly,” said Ward, who trains Fairyland, a daughter of Scat Daddy, for the Coolmore partnership. “She’s going to be a tiger at Royal Ascot” in June.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Lady Eli is among several fillies and mares scheduled to breeze Sunday over the Keeneland turf in preparation for perhaps the deepest race of the entire 15-day spring meet, the Grade 1, $350,000 Jenny Wiley.

Time and Motion, the winner of the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup here last fall, and Catch a Glimpse, the winner of the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Keeneland, also will breeze toward the Jenny Wiley, one of four stakes set for next Saturday, April 15.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Tyler Gaffalione had one tough decision to make after the championship meet ended: whether to keep riding locally or move his tack to New York for the spring.

Now, the Eclipse Award-winning rider may find himself facing another difficult decision in the weeks ahead: which of two potential mounts to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Send It In, third as the favorite in the Stymie Stakes last month, will try again for his first open-company stakes victory on Saturday, when he faces eight rivals in the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior at 1 1/4 miles.

Prior to the Stymie, Send It In had won seven of his previous nine starts, including a pair of stakes restricted to New York-breds.

Hereditary, third to Stanford in the Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs last out, makes his graded-stakes debut in the Excelsior for trainer Shug McGaughey.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer John Terranova had a smile on his face after watching Aqueduct’s third race on Wednesday, when the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Always a Suspect ran away from the field to win an allowance race by about seven lengths.

The Terranova-trained Caledonian had tussled twice with Always a Suspect, losing to him by a neck last November and beating him by a neck in the Lost in the Fog Stakes. Caledonian will be stepping up in class Saturday when takes on five rivals in the Grade 3, $250,000 Bay Shore Stakes for 3-year-olds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Miss Sky Warrior, a two-time graded stakes winner over Aqueduct’s main track last fall, returns to New York and tops a field of nine 3-year-old fillies entered for Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle Stakes.

Last fall, Miss Sky Warrior won the Grade 3 Tempted and Grade 2 Demoiselle to complete a juvenile campaign in which she went 3 for 4.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Unified and King Kranz ran one-two in the Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes on the undercard of the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct last April. On Saturday, Unified and King Kranz will meet again when the two head a nine-horse field entered in the Grade 1, $400,000 Carter, which will immediately precede the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

Unified drew post 8, while King Kranz will break from post 5 in the seven-furlong Carter, which is the first Grade 1 to be run in New York this year.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Cloud Computing was a late starter, but he seems to be a fast learner. If he continues at this pace, he could very well find himself in the Kentucky Derby.

Oaklawn-based jockey Terry Thompson will head to Prairie Meadows after the Arkansas meet ends April 15, and he has been doing some important advance work for Iowa.

“I’ve been getting on a lot of good horses for Prairie Meadows,” Thompson said.

Thompson, who has won multiple titles at Oaklawn and Prairie Meadows, took a rare vacation following the close of the Iowa meet last August. He traveled to a variety of locales, including the Bahamas and Hawaii. Thompson returned to riding in February at Oaklawn and won with his first mount back, the 19-1 shot Checker Czech.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Irish Freedom is in, while West Coast is off the list of probable starters for Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby.

Trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday that he plans to have three runners in the $1 million Santa Anita Derby – American Anthem, Irish Freedom, and Reach the World. West Coast was considered a candidate as recently as last weekend.

Baffert said he would prefer to give West Coast an easier race for his next start instead of pursuing the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 6.