Swipe, second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last fall, and Texas Red, who won the Jim Dandy last summer, both moved closer to their 2016 debuts with demanding workouts on Saturday morning at Santa Anita for trainer Keith Desormeaux.

 Swipe went six furlongs from the gate in 1:12.80 as the pace of his drills accelerates toward his first start of the year. He has not run since the Breeders’ Cup, and Desormeaux has said that if Swipe progressed to his satisfaction there was a chance he would try to run in one Kentucky Derby prep in a Hail Mary bid to get into the May 7 Derby.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Tara’s Tango and  Taris, the one-two finishers in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita, both came out of the race well, but will head in different directions for their next starts.

 Tara’s Tango will remain around two turns, with the Grade 1 Apple Blossom on April 15 at Oaklawn Park under serious consideration, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday morning. The 1 1/8-mile Santa Margarita was her first Grade 1 win.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Cupid caught a shuttle to the airport right after training hours ended on Sunday at Oaklawn Park, headed home to Santa Anita following his Saturday win in the Grade 2, $900,000 Rebel Stakes.  

He could be back soon.

Trainer Bob Baffert said once Cupid gets home he'll evaluate him and then decide on a final prep for the Kentucky Derby on May 7, with a likely target the Arkansas Derby on April 16 because it gives Cupid an extra week compared with his other options, the Santa Anita Derby or Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, both on April 9.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Swipe, second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last fall, and Texas Red, who won the Jim Dandy Stakes last summer, both moved closer to their 2016 debuts with demanding workouts on Saturday morning at Santa Anita for trainer Keith Desormeaux.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With his trio of Kentucky Derby candidates bedded down at Belmont Park, trainer Chad Brown traveled from Florida to New York for a quick visit to oversee Saturday morning workouts for the three as they prepare for important final prep races.

Shagaf, the winner of the Grade 3 Gotham; Flexibility, the winner of the Grade 3 Jerome; and My Man Sam, an impressive maiden winner and allowance runner-up, all breezed at Belmont on Saturday.

A field of 11, including the first four finishers from the Risen Star Stakes last month at Fair Grounds, was entered Saturday for the $1 million Louisiana Derby on March 26 at Fair Grounds.

Trainer Rudy Rodriguez said he’s still puzzled over the ninth-place finish by Dads Caps in the Grade 3 Tom Fool last week, but he doesn’t see anything physically wrong with the 6-year-old horse and still plans to run him in the Grade 1 Carter on April 9. Dads Caps has won the previous two runnings of the Carter, his only two wins over the last 27 months.

Joy Drive, a debut winner sprinting over Aqueduct’s inner track on March 5, likely will make his next start in the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race run over a synthetic surface at Turfway Park on April 2.

Trainer Linda Rice purchased Joy Drive, a son of Quality Road, for $400,000 for owners Sheila Rosenblum and Irish Smith last year in part based on how the horse trained over the synthetic surface at the Ocala Training Center.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Adventist, the third-place finisher in both the Withers and Gotham stakes, and Cadeyrn, an 11-length maiden winner here last month, both put in workouts Friday morning as preparations for the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial on April 9 began to pick up.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The giant Rainbow 6 jackpot survived a close call Thursday, with four horses alive for the entire jackpot of nearly $3.8 million going into the finale, including With a Kiss, who finished second in the maiden-claiming event on turf.

The last-race winner, Sweet Madea, was not covered among the nine tickets still alive going into the nightcap despite being a shorter price than With a Kiss and being ridden by the meet’s leading jockey, Javier Castellano.