OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Majestic Affair won his second straight sprint stakes on Thursday, galloping to a 5 3/4-length victory in the Frank Whiteley Jr. Stakes at Laurel Park. His margin of victory was the same as it was in the Fred “Cappy” Capossela Stakes at Aqueduct in January.

Because it’s a rare Kentucky Derby prep race still contested on a synthetic surface, the Grade 3, $550,000 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on March 21 seems likely to attract “niche” horses with success on such types of tracks. Some will be locals, while others may ship in after having run well on synthetic surfaces in California or at Woodbine in Canada.

Another horse, Firespike, is Spiral-bound by way of another direction – from Ocala, Fla., where he won the OBS Championship Stakes on Tuesday by 2 1/4 lengths.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mawthooq was scheduled to be flown from south Florida to New York on Tuesday to run in the Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct on Feb. 7 in hopes of reigniting his Kentucky Derby aspirations.

Instead, Mawthooq will be vanned from south Florida to Lexington, Ky., on Sunday to be evaluated for a tendon injury that will knock him out of the Withers and off the Triple Crown trail.

Ride On Curlin galloped about 1 1/2 miles Friday at Oaklawn to move closer to his first work since winning an allowance sprint at the track in his 4-year-old debut Jan. 15. Ride On Curlin was the runner-up in last year’s Preakness.

“We might breeze him Sunday, depending on the weather – maybe this weekend, probably Sunday,” trainer Billy Gowan said Thursday. “He came out of that [Jan. 15] race really good.”

Private Prospect, a multiple stakes winner who finished a troubled ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, is being pointed for the Grade 3, $300,000 Southwest at Oaklawn on Feb. 16, trainer Mike Campbell said Friday.

Private Prospect made his 3-year-old debut Jan. 19 in the $150,000 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn and finished fourth, 2 3/4 lengths behind the winner, Far Right. He breezed Thursday at Oaklawn, traveling five furlongs in 1:03.

Jockey Ramsey Zimmerman, who hasn’t ridden since Jan. 16, apparently is having issues again with substance abuse. According to a Tuesday post on his Facebook page, Zimmerman sought treatment recently from the Opiate Recovery Center Associates (ORCA) program in Ocala, Fla.

Zimmerman’s agent, Gil Graell, said Friday he had not heard from the jockey for a while and that he did not expect Zimmerman to be riding anytime soon. The Gulfstream stewards said they are not aware of what is going on with the jockey.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Lea and Commissioner are the biggest names in the prospective lineup for the Grade 1 Donn Handicap, a race Gulfstream Park racing officials hope attracts at least eight older horses.

The $500,000 Donn, to be run next Saturday for the 60th time, is the first Grade 1 handicap on dirt of the year in North America and leads off the Jockey Club Tour on FOX series of racing telecasts. The San Antonio at Santa Anita, which includes Horse of the Year California Chrome, is also part of the Fox telecast

ARCADIA, Calif. – Exercise rider Guadalupe Leyte has been suspended 10 days and fined $1,000 for poor treatment of a pony horse in the Santa Anita stable area, according to a ruling released by track stewards.

Leyte, 45, was suspended 30 days, but 20 days of the suspension will be stayed if Leyte does not have any violations of animal-welfare rules while holding a California Horse Racing Board license.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bad Ju Ju is having a fortunate run in recent starts.

After beating maidens in her second start in December at Los Alamitos, Bad Ju Ju won an optional claimer for California-bred 3-year-old fillies Thursday. The win has led trainer Mike Machowsky to aim Bad Ju Ju for the $200,000 Evening Jewel Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs for statebred 3-year-old fillies April 4.

“That’s the goal,” Machowsky said. “I’d like to run her in an open allowance [as a prep race].”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Ocho Ocho Ocho seems eager to start his 3-year-old campaign.

The winner of the $1 million Delta Jackpot Stakes in Louisiana in November, Ocho Ocho Ocho worked a half-mile in 47.60 seconds Thursday at Santa Anita, a time quicker than trainer Jim Cassidy would have preferred. The half-mile workout was the first recorded work for Ocho Ocho Ocho this year.

“I’m not happy with the workout, but I’m happy with the horse,” Cassidy said.