NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Mark Casse hopes one established 3-year-old he trains, Valadorna, can live up to her promise when she makes the second start of her season Saturday at Fair Grounds. And the way another Casse-trained 3-year-old, Souper Tapit, ran in his career debut here last Saturday gives Casse plenty of hope for races later this winter and spring.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Yockey’s Warrior, who was a powerful allowance winner Feb. 17 at Oaklawn in his first start since winning the Thanksgiving Handicap at Fair Grounds, could be back for a major sprint stakes. Trainer Al Stall Jr. said Monday that Yockey’s Warrior is possible for the Grade 3, $400,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on April 15.

“We shipped him back to New Orleans,” Stall said. “We’ll consider the Count Fleet.”

Yockey’s Warrior covered six furlongs in 1:09.20 and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 94. He’s now 2 for 3 at Oaklawn.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Danny Caldwell took quick command of the owner standings at Oaklawn Park by winning two races on the first card of the meet Jan. 13, and little has changed approaching the second half of the season. Caldwell had 15 wins through Sunday, eight more than second-leading owner Muddy Waters Stables.

Caldwell, a 51-year-old native of Oklahoma, was tied for fourth among owners in wins in North America through Sunday. He has won the last three titles at Oaklawn and wrapped up his record eighth Remington Park title for Thoroughbreds in December.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Gormley, a winner of two graded stakes in his last three starts, worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds on Monday for a scheduled start in a major stakes for 3-year-olds in March.

Gormley is a candidate for the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on March 11 or the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 18. Both races are run at 1 1/16 miles.

Monday’s exercise was Gormley’s first workout in 10 days. Gormley has had three workouts this month, a schedule altered by wet conditions at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Melissa Saldana’s routine did not change after her first stakes win, which came with Cuddle Alert in Sunday’s $100,000 Spring Fever Handicap at Santa Anita.

She had too much to do on Monday.

Aside from looking after Cuddle Alert, Saldana is an assistant to trainer Mark Glatt, overseeing his division a Los Alamitos. On Monday, approximately 10 2-year-olds were scheduled to arrive there. With them in the barn, Saldana would have 25 horses for Glatt.

Getting a stakes win is not changing her job.

“I’m staying with Mark,” she said.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Parlor raced only twice as a juvenile last year, but he made a big impression, winning his career debut and then coming within a neck of winning a rich stakes race at Kentucky Downs. On Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs, the son of Lonhro will try to pick up right where he left off when he makes his 3-year-old debut in a first-level allowance.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Moment of Delight posted her third stakes victory in her last five starts, outlasting Distinta by a neck in Saturday’s White Pearl Stakes. Moment of Delight, a 5-year-old daughter of A.P. Warrior trained by David Fawkes, gave leading rider Luis Saez a sweep of the afternoon’s two stakes. He also won the Grade 2 Royal Delta aboard Curlin’s Approval.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mind Your Biscuits figures as a solid favorite when the 4-year-old colt makes his first start since winning the Grade 1 Malibu on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita. An earner of nearly $800,000, Mind Your Biscuits will return in the Grade 3, $100,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint at 6 1/2 furlongs.

The Gulfstream Sprint is one of three stakes to be run here Saturday, along with twin turf sprints, the $75,000 Texas Glitter and $75,000 Melody of Colors.

Royal Delta’s brother on rise

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The turf star Lady Eli was on the work tab for the first time since her nose defeat in the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf; the 5-year-old mare breezed three furlongs in an easy 37.90 seconds Saturday over the Palm Meadows turf.

“It looked like she was just galloping down the lane,” said Chad Brown, who trains Lady Eli for the Sheep Pond Partners. “She was moving very smoothly, which was the most important thing I was looking for. Hopefully, this gets her started on a regular work schedule” of every seven days or so.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Irish War Cry is scheduled to breeze Saturday at the Palm Meadows training center in preparation for his next stop along the Kentucky Derby trail, the March 4 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

The work will be the only one between races for Irish War Cry, who extended his unbeaten record to three when leading all the way to win the Feb. 4 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream. Trainer Graham Motion confirmed Monday that he intends to enter the chestnut Curlin colt in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth at 1 1/16 miles.