Social Inclusion may be the most noteworthy horse in trainer Manny Azpurua’s barn following his record-setting allowance win over Honor Code here last week. But Wildcat Lily is still the most accomplished.

On Saturday, Azpurua will send out Wildcat Lily against six other older fillies and mares going seven furlongs in the $200,000 Inside Information at Gulfstream Park. The field includes three horses from trainer Marty Wolfson’s barn – My Pal Chrisy, Centrique, and Heart Stealer. Zia Zia Zia, Toasting, and Five Star Momma complete the lineup.

Commissioner, who earlier this year won an allowance over the well-regarded Top Billing, will add blinkers for the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby on Sunday, said his trainer, Todd Pletcher. The horse was one of nine entered in the 1 1/8-mile stakes when the field was drawn Wednesday. Others set to start include the Pletcher-trained Global Strike; Southern California invaders Midnight Hawk, Chitu, and Garen; and local stakes winner Rebranded.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Backing horses rallying from off the pace in five-furlong grass races at Gulfstream Park is not usually a formula for success at the betting windows. But Free as a Bird appears capable of bucking that trend if she can repeat her last performance in Friday’s $51,750 feature, a second-level optional $62,500 claimer.

CINCINNATI – Tamarando was pegged as the 3-1 morning-line favorite after being assigned post 4 in a full field of 12 for the Grade 3, $550,000 Spiral Stakes, the annual Turfway Park signature event, set for Saturday in Florence, Ky.

The Spiral, currently sponsored by Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati but sponsored by a variety of other entities since its 1972 inception, offers 85 points toward eligibility to the Kentucky Derby, including 50 to the winner.

Heliskier, who for the past two seasons has been named the horse of the year at Canterbury Park in Minnesota, will launch his 5-year-old campaign in Friday’s eighth race at Oaklawn. He’s part of a nine-horse field in an optional $50,000 claimer at six furlongs. Others set to start include multiple stakes winner Officer Alex, and the Grade 3-placed runners Jake Mo and Heaven’s Runway.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bond Holder, the winner of the Grade  1 FrontRunner Stakes at Santa Anita last September, is being treated at a veterinary clinic in Florida for laminitis, trainer Doug O’Neill said Wednesday.

Bond Holder has been at the Ocala clinic for the last two weeks since he missed a start in the Tampa Bay Derby on March  8.

“We’re dealing with laminitis in his hind left foot,” O’Neill said. “We’re guardedly optimistic. The doctors said it’s day-to-day. It can go the other way real quick. It takes a while to go the right way. He’s in good hands.”

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Todd Pletcher has saddled the winners of six major stakes during Oaklawn’s annual Racing Festival of the South, and he could add to his record next month. The stable has a handful of horses training toward festival stakes, among them Golden Lad, who won his fourth straight race in the Grade 3, $200,000 Razorback Handicap last Saturday at Oaklawn.

On the heels of a Thoroughbred meet that experienced an uptick in handle, Sam Houston Race Park will move into its Quarter Horse season Friday night with a card of 10 trial races, a new racing secretary, and a series of post-race concerts. The 24-night meet will continue through May 11.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – “I have to find the right spot for Spot.”

So says trainer Nick Zito, who is looking at several options for recent acquisition Spot, a 3-year-old son of Pulpit he purchased privately for owner Joseph Moss prior to his upset victory in the Grade 2 Swale on March 1 at Gulfstream Park. Leading the list of options is the March 29 Florida Derby, a race Zito has won three times with High Fly (2005), Ice Box (2010), and Dialed In (2011).

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Ontario Racing Commission has implemented a series of precautionary measures after a single case of the equine herpesvirus, EHV-1, was reported at Woodbine.

According to a notice issued by the ORC, a 5-year-old filly in Barn 10 on the Woodbine backstretch showed neurological signs of EHV-1 on March 13 but did not have a fever. The filly was removed from Woodbine, put into isolation Saturday, and is in stable condition.