HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Secret Circle drew the rail for the Grade 3, $300,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn Park on Thursday. He’s part of a six-horse field that includes Louisiana-bred sprint sensation Heitai.

Secret Circle is the 123-pound highweight for the Count Fleet, which will be his second start since the Breeders’ Cup. In his seasonal debut, he was second by a neck in the Grade 2 Palos Verdes at Santa Anita on Feb. 2. Secret Circle is no stranger to Oaklawn, as he won the track’s Grade 3 Southwest and Grade 2 Rebel in 2012.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - On Fire Baby and Rose to Gold put in final works for the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap within minutes of each other after the renovation break Saturday at Oaklawn. The mile and a sixteenth race for fillies and mares is to be run Friday as part of the annual Racing Festival of the South.

Richard W. “Dickie” Small, who trained Broad Brush and Concern to major victories during a 40-year training career that earned him immense popularity and admiration from his peers in Maryland and beyond, died late Friday night from complications stemming from a lengthy struggle with cancer. He was 68.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Thundergram will add blinkers for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby after turning in an impressive work in the equipment Saturday at Oaklawn Park. He was one of several horses tuning up for the $3.3 million Racing Festival of the South, which features nine stakes over the final week of the meet. The series closes with the Arkansas Derby on April 12.

Oaklawn’s track was rated “fast” for works Saturday on a clear, 45-degree morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Chantal Sutherland-Kruse is relocating to Canada for the start of the Woodbine season on April 12, she said Friday.

Sutherland-Kruse, best known in California for winning the 2011 Santa Anita Handicap on Game On Dude, plans to ride at Santa Anita through Sunday. She will travel to Woodbine on Monday and begin working horses at the suburban Toronto track on Tuesday in advance of the race meeting.

“I’ll be ready for opening day,” she said. “An opportunity came up, and my husband is supportive. We’ll be commuting a bit, maybe him more than me.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Blingo, the winner of the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes in February, and Eblouissante, a half-sister to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, are bound for stakes in coming weeks.

Trainer John Shirreffs said on Friday that Blingo will run in the $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap over 1 1/8 miles at Oaklawn Park on April 12. Owned by Jerry and Ann Moss, Blingo was third in the Santa Anita Handicap on March 8 in his most recent start.

Friday, Blingo worked seven furlongs in 1:26.80.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin opted to go the more conservative route with his debut-winning filly Regent’s House, and skipped Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle.

McLaughlin said he decided to aim for an allowance race and wait to tackle stakes company later in the year. Regent’s House, a daughter of Street Cry out of the multiple champion Ashado, won a six-furlong maiden race by 6 1/2 lengths here on March 9.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – The 2013 Breeders’ Cup race winners Beholder and Secret Circle worked on Friday at Santa Anita, in preparation for major stakes.

Beholder, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2013, worked seven furlongs in 1:27. Trainer Richard Mandella said that Beholder has the $1 million Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park on June 7 as her late-spring goal, and that prep races at Belmont Park, Churchill Downs, or Santa Anita are possible.

Beholder has not raced since winning the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita last November.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - King Kreesa, who earned two New York-bred awards for his 2013 campaign when trained by Jeremiah Englehart, has been transferred by his owners to David Donk.

“We decided we wanted to make a change to a smaller barn,” owner Gerald Kresa said Friday. “David’s around all the time, his employees have been around for a number of years. Jeremiah has horses at Finger Lakes and goes back and forth a lot.”

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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Kid Cruz will not make a last-ditch effort to make the Kentucky Derby.

Kid Cruz, who impressed with an eye-catching last-to-first victory in the Private Terms Stakes at Laurel on March 8, was scratched from Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial due to a minor shoulder strain, trainer Linda Rice said.

Rice said that if the horse improves she will try to run him in the Illinois Derby at Hawthorne on April 19 as a possible prep for the Preakness at Pimlico on May 17.