OZONE PARK, N.Y. – If you want to get an idea of how Momameamaria will perform in Saturday’s $125,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct, pay close attention to her behavior prior to the race.

Momameamaria came into a high-priced optional-claiming event here Feb. 11 following back-to-back wins. After showing some early speed, she retreated to finish a well-beaten fourth, 15 3/4 lengths behind Paulassilverlining, the probable Correction favorite.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – March is only halfway over, and it has already produced two spectacular performances here by horses making their debuts. The first came from the 3-year-old filly Lightstream, who earned a 103 Beyer Speed Figure on March 6, and the second by a 5-year-old mare named Apologynotaccepted, who ran off the screen to a 16-length triumph on March 11.

Apologynotaccepted is owned by her breeder, the former trainer Happy Alter, who showed remarkable patience before finally getting her to the races at the age of 5.

After not being hit last Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, the pick five at Laurel Park will have a carryover of $30,341 for Friday’s card.

The sequence will be on races 5-9 and includes two solid optional-claiming races, a first-level race at six furlongs for 3-year-old fillies and a third-level race at 5 1/2 furlongs for fillies and mares.

The other races are a $15,000 claimer for 3-year-old fillies, a $40,000 maiden claimer for 3-year-old fillies, and a restricted $5,000 claimer for fillies and mares.

Since moving his stable to the Mid-Atlantic from New England in 1990, trainer Ned Allard has won 85 stakes. He won a similar number in two decades up north after taking out his trainer’s license in 1970.

But in recent years, the flow of stakes horses to Allard’s barn has slowed, and when Always Sunshine won the Dave’s Friend at Laurel in December, it was Allard’s first stakes victory in five years.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Denman’s Call and Toews On Ice are expected to head the field Sunday at Santa Anita in the $75,000 San Pedro Stakes, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds that was canceled March 11 when rain forced the cancellation of that day’s final three races.

Denman’s Call was third to Nyquist and Exaggerator in the San Vicente Stakes, his second lifetime start. Toews On Ice is turning back to a sprint after a sixth-place finish two months ago in the one-mile Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The desire to get a Grade 1 win with Penwith caused trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and owner Godolphin Racing to ship the mare from Florida early this week to take on local stars Tara’s Tango and Taris in the Grade 1, $500,000 Santa Margarita on Saturday at Santa Anita.

Five locals from the Risen Star Stakes and a handful of shippers constitute the likely field that will be entered Saturday for the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby on March 26.

The first four home from the Risen Star on Feb. 20 – Gun Runner, Forevamo, Mo Tom, and Candy My Boy – plus seventh-place Tom’s Ready are expected to run.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Rebel Stakes week started with a bang Monday at Oaklawn Park, where Suddenbreakingnews led a group of eight contenders working for the Grade 2, $900,000 race here Saturday. He also was joined on the work tab by the champions Untapable and Idolo Porteno, who tuned up for starts on the same card in the Grade 2, $350,000 Azeri and the Grade 3, $350,000 Razorback.

The undefeated stakes-winning sprinter El Deal could return to the races within the next week, trainer Andrew Lakeman said.

Lakeman said there are races at Parx on Sunday and Monday for which El Deal is eligible. El Deal, a son of Munnings who has won all four of his starts, has not raced since winning the Gold Fever Stakes at Belmont last May 1. He was given time off due to bone remodeling of the ankles, Lakeman said.

The 8-year-old New York-bred mare Willet will get another chance to leave the track a winner in Saturday’s $125,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct.

It was believed that last month’s Broadway Stakes, in which she was beaten a neck, was to be the final start of Willet’s career before she headed to the breeding shed and a date with Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. But trainer and part-owner Jimmy Iselin said there’s time for one more race, and after Willet breezed five furlongs in 1:01.21 on Sunday at Aqueduct, Iselin decided to run her in the Correction.