OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Wee Freudian, who has posted three gutsy victories since claimed by Richard Schosberg, figures to vie for favoritism with Falaah in Thursday’s six-furlong feature.

Seven older males entered the $62,000 optional claimer that carries first-level allowance conditions.

“He’s as honest a horse as we’ve had in a long time – always runs his race,” said Schosberg of Wee Freudian, who has returned a $20,000 investment by Clear Stars Stable last June more than five-fold.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Randy Morse has trained some notable horses, such as millionaires Jonesboro and Morluc. But this year his barn is poised to become more visible than ever, and not just because the stable’s numbers have grown from 26 to 40 head. Morse has a slew of well-bred youngsters coming up, and the shift within his shed row has led him to make plans to resume racing a division at Churchill Downs for the first time in four years following the close of the Oaklawn Park meet in April.

“I’ve got a lot more young horses that could turn out to be something,” he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – If she reproduces her dazzling maiden victory, the filly Twelve Folds can be long gone Thursday at Santa Anita in her first start against winners.

There is a catch, however. The recent romp by Twelve Folds was in a sprint on dirt. But on Thursday, Twelve Folds will race in uncharted territory – stretching to two turns and switching to grass a one-mile allowance that will not showcase her attribute, speed.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Eight races into his career, the 4-year-old colt Ultimate Eagle will be tried at something different in Saturday’s $200,000 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita. He will make his first start on a dirt track.

Ultimate Eagle began his career last April, starting too late for a race during the 2010-11 season on Santa Anita’s dirt track. Last spring, he lost three starts on Hollywood Park’s synthetic main surface before being switched to turf, where he reeled off four straight wins.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Admiral Rocket has stepped up his game noticeably since he began sprinting on a regular basis, and on Thursday he can collect his second win in his last four starts in the eighth race at Oaklawn Park.

The first-level allowance is for 4-year-olds and up, and it drew a field of 10. Other key players include Anthony and Parody, a pair of three-time winners facing less experienced rivals, and Shimmy Tinjo, who exits a race that produced next-out winners at Parx Racing, Delaware Park, and Colonial Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Game On Dude was less than sixteenth of a mile from winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs last November when jockey Chantal Sutherland sensed victory.

“I could touch it,” she said last weekend at Santa Anita. “It was right there.”

Racing firmly on the rail, Game On Dude led by a length. Just when he seemed clear of 11 rivals, Drosselmeyer caught him in the middle of the track, rallying to win by 1 1/2 lengths.

Lacking so much as an allowance, the Thursday card at Fair Grounds will unfold with a pair of $30,000 starter-allowances as the co-featured attractions when the first of nine races leaves the starting gate at the usual 12:40 p.m. Central.

Golden Gate Fields’s representative in last weekend’s Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas, Donna Labriola of Richmond, finished fifth, earning $37,000. She missed fourth place and a $50,000 payoff by 10 cents.

Labriola was the highest-placing woman in the tournament.

Bold Chieftain has settled nicely into a corner stall in his new home at Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville, Calif., according to farm owner Ellen Jackson. A 9-year-old son of Chief Seattle, Bold Chieftain earned more than $1 million on the racetrack and begins a new career as a stallion this week.

“We’re thinking we should get 40 mares to him,” said Jackson. “We’ve done a lot of pedigree research, and we’ve already had more calls about him than any other stallion.”

Shudacudawudya evened his four-race rivalry with Sourdough Sam in Saturday’s Albany Stakes at Golden Gate Fields. The two split decisions at age 2 and Sourdough Sam beat Shudacudawudya in the Oakland Stakes last fall to take a 2-1 lead in their series.