Trainer Greg Geier is making plans for his pair of talented Jim Tafel homebred 3-year-olds, Fordubai and Street Spice, both of whom were being considered for the Preakness in recent weeks.

Fordubai, second in the Illinois Derby, might have gone to the Triple Crown’s second leg had he not developed a cough that forced Geier to skip a scheduled workout two weekends ago. But Fordubai worked an easy five-eighths last weekend and is on track, Geier said, to start on turf in the Arlington Classic on May 25.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Retreive, who won a first-level allowance race by 3 3/4 lengths at Belmont Park on Friday, will likely point to the Grade 2, $400,000 Woody Stephens Stakes here on Belmont Stakes Day, trainer Jeremiah Englehart said.

Retreive, who was favored against Verrazano when Verrazano won his debut at Gulfstream on New Year’s Day, won Friday’s race by 3 3/4 lengths and covered six furlongs in 1:08.87. He earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 93.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Vyjack, the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes winner and 18th-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, was withdrawn from consideration from Saturday’s Preakness Stakes for a summer campaign that could include the turf, owner David Wilkenfeld said.

Wilkenfeld said that Vyjack lost some weight out of the Derby, which is why he and trainer Rudy Rodriguez opted to skip the Preakness.

Wilkenfeld said all options are open for Vyjack – including the Belmont Stakes – but he also indicated that he would like to try the gelding on the grass at some point.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Rydilluc, fourth in the Blue Grass Stakes in attempting to make a last-ditch effort to crack the Kentucky Derby field, worked a mile in 1:43.76 over the Belmont main track Monday.

Rydilluc alternated on the lead with a workmate, Old School, before finishing well ahead of that one at the wire. Rydilluc went off a slow five-eighths in 1:06.88 while finishing the move in a respectable 36.88.

Trainer Gary Contessa said last week that he is pointing Rydilluc to the $500,000 Penn Mile, a one-mile turf race at Penn National on June 1.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It was unseasonably cold this past weekend at Arlington Park, and at low temperatures, Arlington’s Polytrack tends to play fastest. Right on cue, raw times in main-track races quickened.

But even accounting for the speed of the track, Beyer Speed Figure-makers tabbed two winners from the weekend’s racing as particularly fast. Work All Week earned a 102 Beyer in winning a first-level allowance Saturday, and Saint Leon did even better Sunday, with his three-length, third-level allowance victory producing a 107.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Before trainer Shug McGaughey put Orb on a van bound for Baltimore, he sent out his multiple Grade 1-winning turf star Point of Entry for a half-mile work on the dirt at Belmont Park.

Point of Entry, a bit eager going to the pole, went four furlongs in 49.25.

Point of Entry scratched out of the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic because of the soft turf and is now being pointed to the Grade 1 Manhattan on Belmont Stakes Day (June 8).

ELMONT, N.Y. – If the rain stays away long enough to allow turf racing to return to Belmont Park, then Wednesday’s featured $90,000 Good Reward Stakes shapes up as an intriguing race.

Mother Nature’s wrath allowed only two of last week’s scheduled 21 turf races to be run on the grass. But pleasant weather returned Sunday and dry conditions were expected to prevail through at least midday Wednesday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Orb may have garnered the most attention, but there were other big names on a star-studded work tab Monday morning at Belmont Park, including two-time champion Royal Delta, who had her first breeze since returning from Dubai.

While a gaggle of press and photographers went to follow Kentucky Derby winner Orb back to his barn following his final Preakness workout Monday, Royal Delta stepped onto the Belmont main track.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - At Churchill Downs, no fewer than five Preakness hopefuls had their final pre-race workouts Monday morning over a fast track.

Mylute, with Rosie Napravnik up, was among the first on the track before 6 a.m., breezing a half-mile in 49.60 seconds. The gray colt was fifth in the Kentucky Derby and therefore will be the rival who finished closest to Orb in the Derby to return to challenge him again in the Preakness. (None of the respective 2-3-4 finishers – Golden Soul, Revolutionary, and Normandy Invasion – are running Saturday.)

A memorial service for longtime Northern California trainer Ike Orr will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Top of the Stretch room at Golden Gate Fields.

Orr, who died at age 90 on April 22, trained horses for over 50 years and saddled stakes winners such as Silky’s Nurse, Kobuk Country, Lino, Champs Champ, Selecting, California Express, She Tiger, and R.C. Tulle.