OZONE PARK, N.Y. - It remains to be seen if Vyjack is a viable candidate for the Kentucky Derby but he did his pass his first test around two turns and first gut check winning Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,00 Jerome Stakes for 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Showing the versatility that could make him dangerous on the Kentucky Derby trail this spring, Goldencents won for the third time at his fourth different racetrack, and came from slightly off the pace when capturing the Grade 3, $100,000 Sham Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita, a performance that puts his trainer, Doug O’Neill, back in the Derby spotlight.

O’Neill won the Derby and Preakness last year with I’ll Have Another, an experience he said provided the confidence that he and his team could win America’s most-coveted race.

Mac the Man proved clearly best when romping to a four-length triumph Saturday in the 28th running of the $50,000 Turfway Prevue at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky.

An easy winner of a Dec. 8 Turfway allowance designed as a prep for the Prevue, Mac the Man validated that effort when eased up in the final stages of the 6 1/2-furlong Prevue, finishing in 1:18.31 over Polytrack. He returned $7 as second choice in a field of eight 3-year-olds.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Great Attack made his 2013 debut a winning one Saturday when he roared past pacesetter Silver Cloud through the final furlong to post a 1 3/4-length victory in the $75,000 Tampa Turf Dash at Tampa Bay Downs.

Under a well-judged ride by Angel Serpa, Great Attack was content to lurk just off a hot pace contested by Silver Cloud, Hold On Smokey, and P.J's Back as that trio contributed to a quarter of  21.19 seconds and half of 44.31 while racing as a team into the stretch

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Chris DeCarlo was on the Belt Parkway, one exit south of Aqueduct headed home to New Jersey when he received a text message from trainer Todd Pletcher about his status to replace the injured Rajiv Maragh aboard Princess of Sylmar in Saturday’s  $100,000 Busanda Stakes.

“He sent me a text and said you’re the leading candidate to ride her so I turned around and came back and I’m glad I did,” DeCarlo said.

Each of the last three seasons, Golden Set crossed the finish line first in a stakes on the West Virginia Breeders’ Classic program at Charles Town. Yet he remains eligilble for Tuesday night’s co-featured eighth race, a seven-furlong allowance restricted to nonwinners-of-two-races lifetime.

Even more strangely, Golden Set may be more of a shaky proposition at a short price than a sure thing.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jeranimo could only finish fourth in the Grade 2 Citation Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on Nov. 23, a loss that trainer Mike Pender has shrugged off in recent weeks.

“He came out of the race as good as ever,” Pender said.

The next goal is the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sunday at Santa Anita. Owned by B.J. Wright, Jeranimo is making his third consecutive appearance in the Grade 2 San Gabriel, having won the race in December 2010 and finishing second in January 2012. The stakes was not run in 2011.

Live racing in Nebraska will have a different look this year. The season begins Tuesday with an unusual opener as Lincoln Race Course will run a single Nebraska-bred race down the stretch of the five-eighths-mile oval.

Nebraska tracks are scheduled to run a bare minimum of 49 Thoroughbred dates, down from approximately 90 in recent years, which will meet the requirements each facility needs in order to continue offering full-card simulcasting.

In his last five starts, all two-turn races at distances ranging from one mile to 1 1/8 miles, Tujoes owns three victories, including one in a stakes restricted to Pennsylvania-breds. So why would trainer Steve Klesaris ask the 6-year-old Tujoes to cut back to seven furlongs – a distance where he has been beaten an average of 9 3/4 lengths in his only two starts for Monday’s $53,000 feature at Parx Racing?

Tiz Miz Sue, who was just edged by champion Royal Delta in last year’s Delaware Handicap, is working steadily at Oaklawn Park and could make her 6-year-old debut in either February or March, according to her trainer, Steve Hobby. Her major objective at the Hot Springs, Ark., meet that opens Friday is the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 12.