NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Richie Scherer said he’s planning to run the multiple stakes-placed colt Bourbon Cowboy next around two turns in the Black Gold Stakes at Fair Grounds. That race Feb. 28 for 3-year-olds is scheduled for about 7 1/2 furlongs on turf.

Bourbon Cowboy has raced twice at this meet, finishing second, a half-length behind Cinco Charlie, in the Sugar Bowl on Dec. 20 and winning a first-level optional-claiming sprint Jan. 23.

“I’ve really wanted to get him on the grass,” Scherer said. “His breeding, [sire] Cowboy Cal was a pretty good grass horse.”

Monmouth Park has made a few tweaks to its stakes schedule for 2015, but the program’s core races remain the same.

The meet’s two Grade 1 races are the $1 million Haskell and the $500,000 United Nations. The 1 1/8-mile Haskell, for 3-year-olds, will be run Sunday, Aug. 2, and the United Nations, a 1 3/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up, is scheduled for Sunday, July 5.

Last year, Bayern won the Haskell by 7 1/4 lengths. He went on to win the Pennsylvania Derby and the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Phil Bauer isn’t making excuses for Another Lemon Drop’s fourth-place finish in the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 17 at Fair Grounds.

Another Lemon Drop, who broke from post 10, had a clean trip, and jockey Calvin Borel was able to save ground along the rail around the final turn, Bauer said. The colt simply lacked the stretch punch that Bauer was expecting.

“That was the frustrating part,” Bauer said. “He’s never not finished.”

NEW ORLEANS – Potomac River, who hasn’t raced since being injured in the Mervin H. Muniz Jr. Memorial Handicap in March, is back in training, and trainer Jose Camejo is targeting this year’s Muniz on Feb. 28 at Fair Grounds for him.

On Jan. 25, Potomac River had his third three-furlong workout since he arrived at Fair Grounds in early December. Last season, he won the Grade 3 Fair Grounds Handicap on turf before finishing fifth in the Grade 2 Muniz.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rattataptap earned another try at a stakes victory by winning for the second time in her career in an optional claimer at six furlongs for 3-year-old fillies Thursday.

Ridden by leading jockey Rafael Bejarano, Rattataptap ($5.60) led throughout and won by 4 3/4 lengths over Tall and Sweet. The win has led trainer Jeff Bonde to consider the $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles Feb. 28 for Rattataptap.

“This filly has a lot of potential,” Bonde said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Calculator, who won for the first time Jan. 10 in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita, could make his next start outside California.

On Thursday, trainer Peter Miller said he is considering a late-February race in either Arkansas, Florida, or Louisiana for Calculator as a prep for the $1 million Santa Anita Derby on April 4. One possibility is the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on Feb. 21.

Miller said a late-February race has greater appeal than waiting for the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on March 7.

NEW ORLEANS – A little more than halfway through this 81-day Fair Grounds meet, Tom Amoss has moved to a 13-win lead over Larry Jones in the trainers’ standings.

Through Thursday, the 44th day of the meet, Amoss had won 29 of 82 starts and was tied with Jones for the best win rate, 35 percent, among trainers with more than a handful of starts.

Work All Week, the champion male sprinter of 2014, resumed training at a farm near Ocala, Fla., this week after some vacation time, according to his trainer, Roger Brueggemann. Work All Week won the Grade 1, $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita in his most recent start Nov. 1.

Work All Week is scheduled to arrive at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., the latter part of February. Brueggemann said shipping plans will be dictated by the weather. The horse is based at a farm owned by his breeder and owner, Midwest Thoroughbreds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Marcus Vitali said he plans to bring Lochte back on two weeks’ rest to defend his title in the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap on Feb. 7.

Lochte rallied from midpack to register a head decision over Old Time Hockey last Saturday in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes. The win was just the second in 11 starts for the son of Medaglia d’Oro since he upset the 2014 Gulfstream Park Turf at odds of 39-1 here last winter.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Saturday’s $200,000 Arcadia Stakes for turf milers at Santa Anita Park will not include a runner from trainer Christophe Clement’s stable. Clement said on Wednesday that he hoped to send the 5-year-old War Correspondent, but that he was told on Tuesday that a flight to California had been canceled. War Correspondent will start in a stakes at Gulfstream Park in the coming weeks.