OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Royal Posse’s futility over Aqueduct’s inner track continued when he stumbled badly at the start of last month’s Jazil Stakes and finished fourth as the 6-5 favorite. It not only ended a four-race winning streak but made him 0 for 7 over the inner track.

His connections are now trying to decide whether to give him another shot over the inner in the $125,000 Stymie Stakes on March 12 or opt for a change of venue. He is nominated to the $75,000 John B. Campbell Stakes at Laurel next Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015, is progressing toward her 5-year-old debut. On Friday at Santa Anita, Stellar Wind worked a half-mile in 48.60 seconds.

Trained by John Sadler for Pete and Kosta Hronis, Stellar Wind had the first workout of her comeback Feb. 4, three furlongs in 36.80 seconds.

“We’re getting in our foundation works,” Sadler said. “It’s going pretty smoothly.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens is planning a mid-March return to race riding after undergoing a hip-replacement operation in late December.

Stevens said on Thursday that he has received doctor’s clearance to resume exercising horses in early March to prepare for a comeback. He said he is working on fitness by riding a stationary bike and an Equicizer, which mimics the mechanics of race riding.

“The doctor was happy with everything,” he said. “He doesn’t want me to do anything where I fall on the hip for the next three weeks.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Mario Gutierrez, best known for winning the Kentucky Derby twice, won the 1,000th race of his career in North America on Hot Paris Night in Thursday’s eighth race at Santa Anita.

Gutierrez earned the milestone. He urged Hot Paris Night through the final quarter-mile of a $20,000 claiming race for maidens at a mile to win by a neck over 8-1 Woodstock Memory.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher said he plans to put off any decisions on where to run his long list of Kentucky Derby hopefuls until after Saturday’s Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. But one top 3-year-old in the barn whose itinerary has been set is Battalion Runner, who Pletcher said will not run again until the Grade 1 Florida Derby here on April 1.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Nick Zito may be absent from the Florida Derby and Triple Crown trail again this winter, but the Hall of Fame horseman is having a strong winter meet while remaining confident that there still will be plenty more top 3-year-olds in his future.

Oaklawn Park will offer $1 million in stakes races Feb. 20, and trainer Steve Asmussen will be attacking the program. He said Wednesday that Gun Runner is on deck for the Grade 3, $500,000 Razorback Handicap and Lookin At Lee and Hence are being pointed for the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest Stakes.

Oaklawn is putting the races on the same card for the first time. The track also made changes to the Razorback this year, boosting the purse by $150,000 and moving the race previously run in March to February.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Chanel’s Legacy, who will be seeking her second stakes win of the Oaklawn Park meet on Saturday in the $125,000 Martha Washington, is the latest quality runner for the longtime owner-trainer team of Allen Poindexter and Lynn Chleborad.

Through the years, Poindexter and Chleborad have won stakes with such horses as American Sugar, Bad Moon, Esperanza, Excessive, and Phoenican Moon.

Chleborad said she came to know Poindexter through one of her owners, Betsy McQueary. Both Poindexter and McQueary have ties to Springfield, Mo.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With an impending storm likely to interrupt training for at least two mornings, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin moved up workouts for his pair of fillies who are targeting the Grade 2, $300,000 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel on Feb. 18.

Takrees, the winner of the Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 22, worked a half-mile in 51.16 seconds over the Belmont Park training track. She went her first quarter in 25.91 seconds and her second quarter in 25.25.

Clothes Fall Off, fifth in the Interborough, worked a half-mile in 50.54.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Hushion will send out Iron Power against probable odds-on favorite Send It In in Saturday’s $100,000 Haynesfield for New York-breds going 1 1/16 miles.

Iron Power, a 7-year-old gelding by Mizzen Mast, had gone more than two years without racing on dirt when he finished sixth behind Send It In in the Alex M. Robb on Dec. 31. His previous 12 races had been on turf.

Hushion said he put Iron Power back on dirt in the Robb because he was relatively fresh, having run just twice previously in 2016, “and was training super on the dirt.”