After his runner-up finish in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes last November at Churchill Downs, Frac Daddy was one of the most promising horses in the 3-year-old class of 2013.

Since then, Frac Daddy has had but one race – and a disappointing one at that. Frac Daddy, a gray colt by Scat Daddy, finished a distant sixth in the Jan. 26 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park and exited the race with a hoof injury. After that, he was found to be suffering from a throat ulcer.

So isn’t trainer Ken McPeek frustrated?

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – At last check, the purse for the Florida Derby is still $1 million and the race is still worth 170 Kentucky Derby qualifying points, including 100 to the winner.

Former jockey Ryan Fogelsonger is among four guest handicappers who will audition next week for the in-house television host for Laurel Park and Pimlico.

In addition to Fogelsonger, Dylan Smith, Jackie Savoye, and Gabby Gaudet will each appear on-air one day March 20-23 as possible replacements for Frank Carulli. Carulli, who has been Maryland’s handicapper and racing analyst since January 2002, is moving to Las Vegas at the end of Pimlico’s spring meet on June 8.

ARCADIA, Calif. – With her win in the Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday, Rumor earned a trip to Kentucky. Whether she stays there will depend on how she does in her next race, the Grade 1, $300,000 Madison Stakes on Keeneland’s Polytrack surface on April 13.

“She runs well on synthetic,” said Rumor’s trainer, Richard Mandella, who said Rumor’s owners – Ramona Bass, Adele Dilschneider, and Claiborne Farm’s Dell Hancock – “have said if she’s doing well we can keep her racing.

“We’ll see how it goes, but obviously we’re in pretty good shape right now,” Mandella said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Barry Abrams is hoping Santa Anita’s meet mirrors what is going on with his beloved Los Angeles Lakers, who are finding their stride after a sluggish start. An appropriate horse to carry that flame for Abrams on Friday at Santa Anita is Starspangled Heat, a late-running turf sprinter who was an unlucky loser of two downhill races earlier this meet and seeks an overdue victory in the featured seventh race.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Super Ninety Nine will have to overcome post 11 on Saturday, when he starts as a strong favorite in the Grade 2, $600,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park. He is one of two starters in the 50-point Kentucky Derby qualifying race for trainer Bob Baffert, who also sends out Den’s Legacy.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Dance Card, winner of the Grade 1 Gazelle last fall at Aqueduct, had surgery on both of her front ankles and will be out until late summer, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Tuesday.

Dance Card, who won her last four races after losing her debut, is rehabilitating at Keeneland with Darley Stable’s John Burke, according to McLaughlin.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Javier Castellano’s primary reason for leaving Gulfstream Park to come to Aqueduct Thursday is to ride Caixa Eletronica in the $75,000 Uncle Mo Stakes.

But he will also get to ride the undefeated filly Cluster of Stars in a $64,000 second-level allowance race, which goes as race 4 on the program.

Cluster of Stars, whose training is overseen by Steve Asmussen’s New York-based assistant Toby Sheets, was being pointed for an overnight stakes last week that failed to fill, so she went in this open company allowance race instead.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mr Palmer, the authoritative winner of last Saturday’s Private Terms Stakes at Laurel, will try to jump on the Triple Crown trail in the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial on April 6, his connections said Wednesday.

“If everything looks good he’ll probably try the Wood,” Leana Willaford, New York-based assistant to trainer Bill Mott, said Wednesday.

Willaford reported that Mr Palmer has emerged from the Private Terms in good order.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A week that began with rain ended with sunshine last Sunday, and lookee here, a pot of gold was at the end of the rainbow. No one hit the pick six Sunday at Santa Anita, so when racing resumes Thursday, players will have a carryover of $94,394 awaiting them, with an intriguing downhill turf sprint as the day’s featured seventh race.