HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After chasing a mind-boggling 42-second-and-change opening half-mile split in the Gulfstream Park Sprint Handicap, Silver Cloud should find the competition a lot less imposing when he takes on optional-claiming opposition in Sunday’s $62,100 feature, carded for five furlongs on the grass at Gulfstream Park. The race replaces the scheduled main event, the Lord Avie Stakes for 3-year-olds on the main track, which failed to fill.

West Virginia trainer Doug Shanyfelt has been suspended one year after the stewards at the Charles Town Races deemed him guilty this week of circumventing the state’s racing rules by serving as a “program trainer” for a fellow trainer who was under suspension.

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens will be among the many top riders competing throughout Keeneland and into Kentucky Derby week at Churchill. His agent, Craig O’Bryan, said this week that Stevens will return to Kentucky after riding next weekend in Dubai.

Stevens, 50, retired from the saddle in November 2005, with his last ride coming at Churchill. He came out of retirement to great fanfare in January at Santa Anita and has a 12-for-83 record since returning.

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OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Saginaw won again Thursday, but this time he had to share.

Despite seeming home free on an Aqueduct inner track that was favoring his front-running tactics, Saginaw wound up in a dead heat for win with the late-running Awesome Vision in Thursday’s $75,000 Compelling Word Stakes. It was a half-length back to third-place finisher Johannesburg Smile.

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.