A Jealous Woman was a sick mare when she finished seventh in the Grade 2 Buena Vista Handicap on turf Feb. 18.

“She had an infection in her throat,” said Eddie Meza, husband and assistant to trainer Francis Meza. “She couldn’t breathe.”

A Jealous Woman has recovered and will start in a short field in Sunday’s $150,000 Santa Ana Stakes for fillies and mares over 1 1/8 miles on turf. Owned by a partnership, A Jealous Woman could play a key role as a pacesetter. Earlier this week, she received a clean bill of health, Eddie Meza said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Always in a Tiz, who had spent about a month at Oaklawn Park, was held out of last week’s Rebel Stakes because his connections felt he wasn’t quite himself.

Back home in New York, Always in a Tiz showed signs of life Thursday morning when he worked four furlongs in 48.27 seconds over the Belmont Park training track. Working by himself under exercise rider Carl Allsop, Always in a Tiz went his first quarter in 24.11 and his final quarter in 24.16. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:00.92.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Flashpoint had a flashback to his best form in his last start, and a repeat of that effort will make him one to reckon with Saturday at Oaklawn in the $75,000 Hot Springs. The six-furlong race for older horses is a springboard to the Grade 3, $250,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap here April 13.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Retired jockey Chantal Sutherland exercised horses at Santa Anita on Thursday for the second time this month and said a comeback in the coming months is on her mind.

“I wouldn’t rule it out,” she said.

Sutherland, 37, announced her retirement at Woodbine, near Toronto, last October after winning 931 races from 7,350 mounts, mostly in her native Canada. She is best known for winning the 2011 Santa Anita Handicap on Game On Dude, becoming the first female rider to win that race.

Hit the Road Lee will have to fight off invaders Brethren and Shared Property to win his fourth consecutive race in Saturday night’s $70,000 Borgata at Delta Downs. The one-mile race for 4-year-olds and up is restricted to horses that have made at least one start at the Vinton, La., track since Oct. 18.

Trainer Eddie Willis has three of the 10 runners set to start in Saturday night’s Grade 2, $325,000 Oklahoma Futurity for Quarter Horses at Remington Park. The Oklahoma Futurity was first run in 1947.

Willis has the fastest qualifier for this year’s 300-yard race in Swingin Debut. He won his March 9 trial in 15.37 seconds, driving to a three-quarter-length win under Jimmy Brooks, who will again be aboard for the finale. Swingin Debut emerged as the fastest qualifier after 12 trials run on a sloppy track at Remington. He will break from post 2.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There was a familiar name in the Aqueduct winner’s circle here following the second race last Sunday.

The Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons Racing Stable, named in honor of the legendary trainer, had its first winner when Al’s Lark captured Sunday’s second race, a $12,500 claiming heat. The stable is a partnership of friends and family members formed last summer by Jack Fitzsimmons, a grandson of Sunny Jim’s.

The Grade 3, $191,560 Harrah’s Futurity for Quarter Horses is the final stakes of the Louisiana Downs meet that wraps up on Wednesday. The 300-yard feature is led by Secrets Fly, who set the fastest qualifying time during trials March 2.

Secrets Fly was a half-length winner of his trial, while covering 300 yards in 15.55 seconds. He was the favorite in the race, and was prominent throughout.

Two of last year’s most dominant horses in Nebraska will finally meet in a heavily anticipated match-up as Song of Humor and Diamond Joe headline a field of nine older rivals going six furlongs in the $25,000 Budweiser/Tondi Stakes at Fonner Park on Saturday.

Sunland Derby favorite Shakin It Up was one of six horses who flew into New Mexico on Thursday morning to be part of a Sunday program of seven stakes worth more than $1.4  million. The card is the richest of the meet at Sunland Park.

Shakin It Up was joined on Thursday’s flight by Govenor Charlie, Saint Prado and Mudflats, all of whom are also entered in the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby. The fillies Midnight Lucky and Unusual Way also made the trip, according to a track official, to run in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks.